The Dead-Impacts of Epiphany on Gabriel Conroy Literature Essay

All the reqirements are inside the file. don't need to cite at the end. just need the 3 answers.

Page 1 of 2 Queens College (CUNY) Department of Comparative Literature Fall 2019 - Global Literatures II / CMLIT 102W Section 07 Final Examination updated 7/19/2019 Instructions: Choose any three of the numbered topics below. Essays are required for each question/topic, with the exception of #8. If an essay answer is required, write at least 24 - 25 lines. If you choose #8, you must identify every quotation in order to get full credit. Please use every other line, like you do for any essay. You may do your three choices in any order you choose, but please let me know which question/topic you are answering. No quotes are required! Stay focused! Concentrate on only one question at a time, and think it all the way through. Above all, remember to answer the question being asked! This examination is due by 11:59 PM on 13 December, after which the questions/topics will disappear from Blackboard. Under no circumstances will I accept any work beyond 11:59 PM, 15 December. If you return it to me late, your grade will be reduced, as stated in the syllabus. 1) In “The Dead,” Gabriel Conroy undergoes an epiphany at the end of the story. In a brief essay, explain what this epiphany is and how it effects Gabriel. Be as specific as you can. 2) One of the themes in Shakespeare’s The Tempest is colonialism. Write an essay briefly discussing at least four aspects of colonialism found in the play, explaining what or who the characters in the play represent(s). 3) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been read over the past one hundred years variously as: an adventure story; a racist text; a critique on King Leopold II’s atrocities in the Congo; a postcolonial commentary; in support of white European superiority and African inferiority; a feminist text; and other interpretations. What significance did the story have on you as a person? Your response may include one or more interpretations as sketched above, or you may give your own interpretation, fully explaining your opinion(s). Page 2 of 2 4) Both Chinua Acebe and Hunt Hawkins wrote essays on Heart of Darkness, but their essays are quite different. Briefly compare and contrast these two essays. 5) The title of The Piano Lesson is dual-purposed. Write a brief essay on the dual nature of this phrase, and what is learned by the characters. 6) What does the reader learn and understand when the unnamed narrator enters Mustafa Sa’eed’s locked “secret” room in Salih’s Season of Migration to the North? 7) James Joyce’s “The Dead” shows the paralysis, political and social, of the Irish people. Several of the guests at the Morkans’ dinner party represent, in different ways, microcosms of this paralysis. Choose one character from “The Dead” and write a brief essay about the paralysis s/he represents. 8) Identify the book or play from which each quote is taken (the author’s name is not required). If you choose this question, you must complete all parts to get full credit: A) “Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom!” B) “You can’t sell your soul for money. It won’t go with the buyer. It’ll shrivel and shrink to know that you ain’t taken on to it.” C) “Our marriage is not yet wholly fulfilled. When earth and passage wed, the consummation is complete only when there are grains of earth on the eyelids of passage.” D) “Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,” E) “With cops, the hunting dogs from slavery return . . . Coppers! here come the poliiice!” F) “With a combination of admiration and spite we nicknamed him ‘the black Englishman.’” G) “Hell, I ain’t scared of dying. I look around and see people dying every day. You got to die to make room for somebody else.” H) “If you had followed when it was time, we would not say the dog has raced beyond and left his master behind.” I) “The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” J) “It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward.” K) “Without wanting to bore you, one word: the proper burial of the dead has been lost.” 9) Solibo Magnificent is a story which calls attention to language. There are several languages mentioned in the book. Write a brief essay about two of the languages in the story, who uses them, and what they are used for. 10) Ritual and symbolism are key in Death in the King’s Horseman. Write a brief essay on how Olunde figures in the play, and how he adheres to ritual, even though he was educated in England.