final exam assignment

Sample final essays

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1. Tragedy and its Updates (Obj. 2a)

Bryan McDonald, Revisiting Tragedies

3. Families in Tragedy + The Oedipal / Electra Conflict

Jarrod Goergen, Family Matters

Bryan McDonald, Tragedy: Family Dynamic and Cultural Ideals

4. Tragedy and Spectacle, including the Sublime (Obj. 2)

Jennifer Clary, Spectacle and the Sublime

Jarrod Goergen, Spectacular and Sublime at the Same Time?

Ariana Gonzalez, What are Spectacle and the Sublime?

Adrian Hernandez, The O-M-G factor

Adrian Holden, Spectacle and the Sublime

5. Classical Humanism and Judeo-Christianity in Tragedy (Obj. 3)

Donna Shotwell, Prophecy of Tragedy

6. Tragedy as the greatest genre--extension of midterm essay.

Adrian Hernandez, Long live the king

9. Teaching Tragedy

Jennifer Clary, Discovering the Greatness Within

Adrian Holden, New and Exciting Ways of Thinking about Tragedy

10. Self-generated topic

Shanna Farmer, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned