Love and Relationships

You MUST somehow write on 4 out of the 5 bullet-pointed authors/works from below. For instance, while you may write on both “Coming of Arthur” and “Passing of Arthur” (or just one of these is fine!), you can only count them as ONE entry.  For another example, you can write on one excerpt from a Victorian Issue reading to represent ONE entry, but then you can NOT write on another Victorian Issue reading to represent another entry.  You should carefully choose which topics/authors you wish to write on before starting to write. You should also form an outline in order to keep your essays on track as you build your arguments.

Again, you somehow need to write on 4 out of the 5 bullet-pointed items below:

ANY one or more Victorian Issues reading (from Evolution, “Woman Question,” Empire and National Identity)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (“Coming of Arthur” and/or “Passing of Arthur” from Idylls of the King)
William Morris (“Defence of Guenevere”)
George Bernard Shaw (Mrs. Warren’s Profession)
Oscar Wilde (Salomé)

Love and relationships:
In many ways, the literature we studied in this section dealt with relationships, often specifically what “love” means but also encompassing other familial ties as well.  Choose any two literary works from Idylls of the King, “Defence of Guenevere,” Salomé, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession and address the concept of love (and love relationships) as explored in your two chosen works.  Remember that regardless of whether you choose your two works for their similarities or differences, you need to make sure that you raise important questions about WHY it is important to study these relationships, and HOW a study of these relationships or these conceptions of love can reflect upon major thematic significance of each work.  Further, how might studying the two works TOGETHER highlight important points you might not have spotted just reading the works by themselves?  [For your texts, you can choose any TWO literary works.]