Topics for Paper Due November 4, Wednesday by 5:00 p.m.
Length: three to five thoughtful pages.
Topics: Choose one and build a paper on it.
1. Explore and critique the "Hamartia" of one of our tragic figures.
2. Explore the power of fate and the gods in tragedy.
3. Defend Medea as a tragic figure.
4. Compare Lysistrata with Medea
5. Make sense of the conclusion (and perhaps the opening) of a tragedy or two.
6. Compare Lysistrata with a well-selected modern comedy.
7. Consider the nature of "Hubris" in our dramas.
8. Find a way to make sense of Sappho in the context of our dramas
9. How does "Anagnoresis" work in Lysistrata?
10. How would the audience make sense of one or more of our dramas?
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