We have 4 topics here, you only need to choose one from these topics which u think is easy to write and can get higher mark.(Also need the outline and thesis to help me write in class)
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English 153 (003): In-class Essay
(worth 25% of your final grade)
7 October 2016
Choose ONE of the following topics and write a clear, coherent, well-supported essay in response. Your
essay will be evaluated for its argument, organization, quality of evidence, and stylistic clarity. You are
permitted to bring in this assignment description (i.e. one sheet of paper, with as much writing—on
BOTH sides—as you choose) but no other books or notes, please (this includes dictionaries. No
dictionaries). Please double-space your essay. You can use pen or pencil. Research is not required for
this assignment but you will be graded on spelling, grammar, and mechanics.
1. Rochester (poor, poor Rochester) locks up his wife in the attic of his home because, of course,
he has no other choice: she is mad. She has always been mad, and her madness is not his fault.
Respond to this claim in an essay which addresses whether or not Rochester’s descriptions of
Bertha’s madness should be believed.
2. At its core, Jane Eyre is a love story in which the novel’s narrator and protagonist (Jane, of
course), finds true love.
Respond to this statement in an essay which considers the ways in which the fairy-tale nature of
Jane’s narrative might be interpreted, in fact, as something more complex and problematic than
its “happily-ever-after” ending suggests.
3. The protagonist of Jane Eyre is a reliable narrator. She is, after all, smart, perceptive, and
honest. As readers, we can trust what she observes and reports to us.
Or can we?
In an essay which considers the inherently untrustworthy nature of first-person narrators,
discuss Jane’s point of view: does her point of view undermine the veracity of the story she
tells? Or can she, in fact, be trusted?
4. Colonialism and imperialism play such minor parts in the events which unfold in Jane Eyre that
we would be wise to dismiss the relevance of either to our interpretation of the novel.
Respond to this claim in an essay which considers the ways in which the colonial/imperial
enterprise is (or is not) implicated in Jane’s story. (If indeed we should dismiss the role of
colonialism and imperialism in Jane Eyre, then what other factors are central to our
understanding of the novel? If colonialism and imperialism are crucial to the narrative, then
explain how they shape our interpretation of it.)
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