I don't know what form I will have my research project be just yet (although I am leaning toward the multimedia one). I would like to focus on Emily Dickinson's poem "Much Madness is the Divinest Sense."
Within that poem, I would like to explore the idea of people in society treated differently based on their beliefs... or something to that effect. We as people treat people differently because we are sometimes threatened by the insight or knowledge one may have. I want to dig deeper into that.
I think that this topic is interesting and will have some information available to support my tentative hypothesis.
I could give examples of others who spoke their minds and were out-casted for it.
P.S. I have to use another text to go along with this...
At the end of the week
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So this week I had a huge writers block and as a writer that is never a
good thing. But today I spat out a poem and I've worked it and worked it
and I want...
15 years ago
You could tie in how Jeannette was forced to leave because she wouldn't "repent" for use of another class text. There are a slew of martyrs you could find scholarly texts on. There's always the idea of MLK, Ghandi and whatnot, but I think those are a little cliche.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll have to keep that in mind. Jeanette wouldn't conform, Jin tried too hard to conform, Pecola wanted to conform, and Craig wanted to, but couldn't go against himself. There are so many examples that I could use! Ah! Where to start?
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