Due Monday and Tuesday

Due Monday:

Please write an introduction and one body paragraph on the prompt below using Tartuffe as the literary work. Please underline your use of "causality" statements to show your analytical connections.

Open Ended Prompt

Most literary works emphasize the actions and development of characters who are present during the majority of the literary work. Sometimes, however, it is the characters who are absent who nevertheless are a major influence on the work as a whole. Select a literary work where a character is rarely seen (or not seen at all) and write an essay in which you identify the absent character and explain his/her significance to the story. Do not merely summarize plot.

(Use the play Tartuffe to respond to this question)

Thinking process:

Identify a character who is ‘absent or rarely seen’. [the prompt topic]

Identify the significance of the story [a meaning of the work as a whole].

Connective thinking/Causality Statements: For what reason(s) is this character being absent important to the meaning of the work as a whole?

Note: Often with Open Ended Essays, the answer to “for what reasons” will become your POA. Your POA will rarely be literary devices.

Due Tuesday

Read Act I of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House which is in your red book right after Tartuffe. For Act I, your note topics should be foil characters, gender identity, and social expectations.