Example Written Assignment
Titles
The following list contrasts
specific narrow essay titles with less narrow and focused examples
- ‘The significance of black in the Outsider’
Is better than ‘Colour in the Outsider and Metamorphosis’
- ‘The presentation and significance of
marital conflicts in Madame Bovary’
Is better than ‘Women in Madame Bovary’
- ‘The symbol of the house in One Hundred Years of Solitude’
Is better than ‘Symbolism in One Hundred Years of Solitude’
- ‘The nature and significance of social
conflicts in God’s Bits of Wood’
Is better than ‘Conflicts in God’s Bits of Wood’
- ‘An exploration of the presentation
and significance of the father figure in Kokoro’
Is better than ‘Men in Kokoro’
- ‘The roles of music and mime in I Will Marry When I Want’
Is better than ‘Dramatic techniques in I Will Marry When I Want’
- ‘An exploration of the role of images
of death in the poetry of Szymborska’
Is better than ‘Death in the poetry of Szymborska’
Here are some more ideas:
- An exploration of the symbolic significance
of flowers in Chronicle of a Death
Foretold
- Angela’s seduction: the significance
of unreliable narrative in Chronicle
of a Death Foretold
- Murdered dogs and slaughtered rabbits:
an exploration of the role of animal symbolism in The House of the Spirits
- The significance of windows and doors
in The House of the Spirits
- An exploration of the role of
deliberate gaps in Chronicle of a Death
Foretold
- The power of the outsider: an
exploration of the role of the whores in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- How does brightness and darkness in
the novel No one Writes to the
Colonel reflect hope and hopelessness?
- Disease and shrinking as a reflection
of a character’s influence in The
House of the Spirits
- How setting conveys isolation on
different levels in Kiss of the
Spider Woman
- A psychoanalytical
reading of films in Kiss of the
Spider Woman