Comparative essay

compare one of the stories below in real life . How do Sophocles' play "Antigone" and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" address the issue of civil disobedience? How does the gender/race of the disobeying individual impact the meaning of the texts? 2. Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" alludes to the negative impact unquestioned or unchallenged dogma may have on an individual's life (and death) in a community. Read Salman Rushdie's 1993 essay "Imagine There's No Heaven" and compare this author's view of organized religion and its effect on society to that implied in Jackson's text. 3. The two plays by Susan Glaspell and Lynn Nottage, "Trifles" and "POOF!" respectively, focus on the issue of gender inequality in marriage. How do the two playwrights portray the female characters in relation to their male counterparts? Considering the plot similarities, could "POOF!" be considered a revisionist version (or a rewriting) of the 1916 "Trifles" from a contemporary (African-American) perspective? 4. How does Angela Carter's story "The Company of Wolves" address the subject of sexual awakening implied in the "Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale? What are some of the subtle points in Charles Perrault and/or the Grimm Brothers' version the contemporary author uses to expand on the theme of sexuality? As an alternative, you may also discuss Bernard Capes' 19th-century story "The Thing in the Forest" (and its emphasis on the religious perspective) in connection to any or all other versions. 5. The 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, an adaptation of Charles Perrault's fairy tale "The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood" (and the Brothers Grimm later version titled "Little Briar Rose"), fleshes out the conventional antagonist in the original, the evil fairy, by creating the iconic "queen-of-all-evil" image and aptly naming the character Maleficent. The 2014 live-action movie Maleficent provides a revisionist version of the fairy tale by focusing on the backstory of the evil character. How does the 21st-century approach to the original story change your understanding of the characters and their motives? Does the contemporary perception of gender roles influence the new version of the plot and character interaction/relations?    

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