ENGL 240 Final Paper: Drama or Fiction
This assignment allows you to demonstrate the following skills:
Develop an argument centering on literary form that is appropriate for a specific audience of learners
Select and present textual evidence that supports your claims using summary, paraphrase, explication, and/or analysis.
Document your use of primary material (the play) and, if used, secondary sources (articles, web sources, etc.) in MLA style.
Submit a final, academic paper that thoroughly achieves the purpose of the project. A polished academic paper is written in Standard English, revised for organization and clarity, and edited for errors.
Guidelines
Using Antigone as your primary, dramatic text, consider the following:
What if the play were rewritten in the form of fiction (whether short story or novel)?
Your purpose is to demonstrate how the play would be different if written as a short story or novel. The audience for your paper will have read both plays, but they will not have studied genre in detail.
The essay should cover explanations of each genre–drama and fiction–including key terms and concepts. Your thesis statement should argue for your chosen genre by answering the prompt above, providing the HOW and WHY. For example, if you were to argue that Antigone would resonate more with today’s readers as a novel, then you would need to include the reasons WHY fiction would improve the text, and HOW it would resonate more. Your close reading analysis of the text should consider the literary and genre elements you have studied, the central themes, the behavior of and interaction among the characters, as well as contemporary and cultural factors – in order to support your points about a genre.
Format
The finished product will be a formal, academic essay in MLA format. The paper should be 4-6 pages and follow MLA Format, which has 1-inch margins, 12-point font, and is double-spaced. Quotations, paraphrases and images from outside sources must be cited in-text. A Works Cited page must also be included at the end of the essay.
http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html
online resource for Antigone
