You will generate a claim about Fences, A Doll’s House, or Macbeth

Assignment: In this paper, you will generate a claim about Fences, A Doll’s House, or Macbeth that draws on one of the contexts we have been discussing in Unit 3: the author’s revisions; other works by the same author; the historical/cultural worlds of the work’s production and reception; published interpretations of the work; and adaptations of the work.  You must present a claim focused on a specific element in your chosen playand use one or two supporting contextual sources to develop your argument.

By “element,” I mean an image, a scene, a plot development, a character, an authorial decision, etc.  As always, your claim should respond to a debatable question of interpretation.  Your main claim, which you should indicate clearly at the beginning of your essay, is your take on the interpretive question you are raising. Your essay should then proceed to support your claim through detailed analysis of textual evidence organized in an organized, logical, and persuasive way.  Keep in mind that you are bringing in the one or two works representing relevant contexts because doing so enables you to address the claim you are making about the play, the primary focus of your essay.

 As always, the claim should be one that other readers of the work might disagree with or one that would not occur to superficial readers. Textual support in the form of reference to specific details of the texts, including quotations, should be pervasive in the essay.