ENG111.003 -- Introduction to Literature: Beholding Violence in Drama and Film

Prof. Eileen Joy

Summer 2008

FINAL EXAM

Figure 1. Ric Stultz, History of Violence (gouache and mixed media on paper, 2007)

Reflecting upon the themes of this course (revenge, violence, tragedy, murder, images & depiction of violence, moral corruption), devise an essay that explores some aspect or aspects of one or more of these themes through a reading of at least TWO of the texts from our syllabus (this includes the films, but at least one of your texts must be one of the plays we have read). It is entirely up to you to decide what you want to write about, but you must have a pointed thesis (a main point that you want to argue and that is not overly ambiguous or too broad), and your thesis should be supported throughout the essay with close analyses of specific details and language of the texts under consideration. Your essay should be approximately THREE typed, double-spaced pages (give or take a few sentences under or over that page length).

Your exam essay should be saved as a .doc [Microsoft Word] or .rtf [Rich Text Format] file and sent to ejoy@siue.edu as an email attachment by Friday, August 8th at midnight.