ENGL 103 - The Comparative Analysis Essay

Assignment Task

1. Analyze two works where narrators become more than a neutral means of relaying events. You could focus on narrators who prove to be actively unreliable or to have their own agendas, but you could also address narrators who are confused or otherwise lacking in the capacity to be objective. How do narrators' biases and blindspots become important to the works concerned?

2. Analyze the endings of any two works. Do these endings significantly change or extend the effect of the whole work, and if so, how? What exactly defines an ending, anyway? Is the ending always the most important part of a work of literature?

3. Analyze the importance of speech and dialogue in any two works. How do characters' voices convey important parts of a work? How do the exact words take on significance, beyond simply relaying information? How do the works use voices to show (rather than simply tell readers about) important things?

4. Analyze two works in which relations between human and non-human life are significant. Do these works emphasize differences or similarities between the living entities they depict? To what extent do these works suggest that it is possible for humans to comprehend and describe other forms of being?

5. Analyze the roles of realism in two works. How, and to what effect, do these works depict characters, events, settings, etc. that create an effect of verisimilitude (that seem as though they could or could have existed in the world we know through history, science, and personal experience)?

Do these works suggest that there is such a thing as objective realism, or does comparing them suggest that realism is an evolving concept? Note: you do not have to focus on works that are entirely realistic; you could address ways in which realism can be combined with other approaches, or with elements of the fantastic, the uncanny, the dystopian, etc.

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