Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

Choose one of the following topics and write a comprehensive, clear, and original essay of 1,000-3,000 words.

The essay should have an original title and Works Cited page.

Any plagiarism will result in automatic failure.

1. Analyze Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart” in terms of its narrative voice and plot structure and explain how its narrative form generates its meaning.
2. Choose a video game and analyze the construction of its fictional world. Explain how, and whether, the narratological theories developed for literary texts can be applied to the new media (you have to give a description of the game, along with the full details in Works Cited).
3. Discuss how the story of Cinderella (the Grimm brothers’ version) would look if focalized through one of the step-sisters. Discuss the importance of focalization in the act of narrative communication.
4. Discuss how the plot structure of Arthur Conan Doyle’s story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” is related to its engagement with the history of the period, in particular with the British rule in India.
5. Discuss how the history of the Star Wars universe is related to the history of our world and how this relationship sheds light on the theoretical problematic of fictionality.