Essay questions for Groups 7 & 13.
Answer on one of the following questions. Students must submit an essay of between 2,500 and 3,000 words. Submission deadlines can be found in the freshman student handbook.
1. It is over-devotion to the code of chivalry which brings about the fall of Arthur’s court in the final books of Le Morte Darthur. Discuss.
2. Write on the “redemption” of Lancelot and Guinevere in the final tale of Le Morte Darthur.
3. Discuss representations of evil in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene.
4. Discuss Spenser’s use of romance conventions in either Book 1 or Book 6 of The Faerie Queene. In your essay compare and contrast Spenser’s use of these conventions with that of other writers from the course.
5. Discuss how the contemplative life is contrasted with the life of action in Sidney’s Old Arcadia.
6. Discuss any of the following in relation to Pericles: fortune; fate; magic.
7. Write on “stereotypes” in Shakespeare’s use of the pastoral mode in As You Like It.
8. In any two texts from this course from Hilary or Trinity Term discuss the contrast between courtly love and religious devotion.
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