Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
• Shakespeare
• Beowulf
• Chaucer
o Explain the creation and significance of the fall of the Pardoner in “The
Pardoner’s Tale”
o How does Chaucer depict the socio-economic background of the 14th
Century?
o How does Chaucer rank the Pilgrims by social classes and their perceived
moral standing as members of those classes?
o Discuss the slapstick situations which occur in “The Miller’s Tale”
o How do Chaucer’s opinions on changing social structures come out in his
works?
• John Donne
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Bunyan
• Jonathan Swift
• Restoration Drama
o By choosing a play of William Wycherley, William Congreve or John
Dryden, illustrate the comic attack on Puritan values
• Cavalier Poets
o Compare the Cavalier poets on poetic style and treatment of “love theme”
Suggested Topics for English Literature
• John Milton
• Phillip Sidney
• William Sheridan
• William Cosgrove
• Lord Byron
• Bubonic Plague
• Ben Johnson
Suggested Topics for English Literature
o Why did Johnson’s play Every Man Has His Humour change his life?
o Discuss how “Kubla Khan” was (or was not) part of a dream
o Explain how “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a parable
o Compare “Phantom or Fact” with “Kubla Khan”
o Compare Coleridge’s conception of silence in “Frost at Midnight” with
Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
o Compare the ballads of Coleridge and Wordsworth
• Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, William Blake,
William Wordsworth
• Lake Poets
o What common themes and common lodging were shared by the Lake
Poets?
o How do the Lake Poets exemplify the English Romantic movement?
• Lewis Carroll
• Thomas Hardy
• Jane Austen
o Discuss how Emily and Anne Bronte shared a childhood imaginary world
which inspired later writings
o What is the effect of multiple narrators in Wuthering Heights?
o How is Jane Eyre a feminist novel?
o How does Jane Eyre explore the Victorian dilemma?
• George Eliot
• Joseph Conrad
• Rudyard Kipling
o How did Scott bring about a 19th Century revival of chivalric ideals?
o Why is Scott credited with inventing the modern historic novel?
• Charles Dickens
• Daniel Defoe
• Virginia Woolf
o Show how Woolf led the feminist movement with her characters
o What are the themes used in To the Lighthouse?
o Compare the isolation of George Eliot with that of Virginia Woolf
• George Orwell
• William Golding
• James Joyce
• Daphne du Maurier
• Samuel Beckett
• C. S. Forester
• D. H. Lawrence
o In Sons and Lovers, Explain how Lawrence has life and death open
straight onto each other
o In Sons and Lovers, explore the character Paul’s Oedipus Complex
• Bram Stoker
• E. M. Forster
o Explain how Howard’s End critiques class struggle and Edwardian culture
o Show how Passage to India portrays Hindu and nationalistic news
• T. S. Eliot
• H. G. Wells
• Oscar Wilde
• Evelyn Waugh
o Explain how Waugh showed suspicion and disdain for the world around
him
o How do comedy, farce, and pessimism characterize Waugh’s novels?
Suggested Topics for English Literature
• Graham Greene
o How is one man’s struggle to maintain his faith shown in The Power and
the Glory?
• Aldous Huxley
• Agatha Christie
o Using one of her novels as an example, tell why Christie was named “The
Master of Mystery”
• Fantasy
• Salman Rushdie
• Harold Pinter
• Frank McCourt
o How does McCourt show the fortitude of the human spirit in Angela’s
Ashes?
• Roddy Doyle
• Maeve Binchy
• Rosamunde Pilcher
• Nicholas Evans
• Novels of Espionage
o John Le Carré, Ken Follett, Len Deighton and Frederick Forsyth wrote
suspenseful novels of spying during the Cold War; select one to show the
technique used