In addition to meeting with your peer mentors to go over your final essay rough draft, you will also upload the following to Moodle by midnight on Saturday the 3rd.
The Moodle assignment will be titled: Final Essay Working Thesis
I will give you feedback on your working thesis so make sure to check Moodle for this!
The Final Essay Working Thesis should include the following:
Your monster or vampire's full name
Example: Dracula
Your monster or vampires's culture: time and place
Example: Victorian England (1800s)
Cultural fears and desires the monster embodies in the form of a thesis statement:
Example: Dracula embodies the Victorian's cultural fear of women's sexual expression. He also represents the culture's desire for that very same female sexual expression, as well as the desire to break out of restrictive gender roles.
(Notice how the fears and desires all relate to each other. Yours should too!)
Lastly, please include at least two library sources you plan to use in your paper along with three to ten sentences per source explaining how they relate to your topic.
Example: Gerber Davis' essay in "Skin Shows" discusses how Dracula acts as both permission giver for the expression of the Victorian female's sexuality and as a figure of prohibition for that very same expression. In this sense he operates as a kind of doppleganger of the men in the novel (and ultimately the culture at large), by encouraging and participating in the women's sexual emancipation and also acting as figures of repression and punishment. The essay also discusses some of the gender norms for women and men at the time, which I plan to use as historical background in my essay.
If you would like to include more, such as the beginning few paragraphs of your essay, you may. This is not required, however.
Any questions? Email me.
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