Longer Fiction & Drama Introduction
What interpretive insight might emerge if Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was analyzed using post-colonial literary theory?
What effect does an author achieve by employing free indirect discourse in writing from a third-person point of view?
When a story is set in a dystopian future, what might this indicate about a protagonist's challenges?
Question #2: In Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," how does the stream-of-consciousness technique best contribute to our understanding of Mrs. Ramsay?
In literature, how might an urban setting influence the way characters are portrayed as interacting with their environment?
Why is it important to understand a character's perspective in a story?
If a story's narrator addresses the reader directly using "you," what point of view is this?
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What literary device involves describing a scene in vivid detail to evoke sensory experience, and how does it generally influence readers?
In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," what is the primary conflict that leads to the tragic ending?
In Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," how do both authors use the motif of blindness to inform their work’s overall meaning?