Assignment:
1. Question on "The Mayor of Castle bridge"
Topic: Many of the works read portray characters altering their consciousness in one way or another, through alcohol or drugs. The works demonstrate shifting cultural ideas about the dangers and possibilities of changing your perceptions or losing control of your faculties.
In your paper, explore some of these scenes, discussing the kinds of things these works have to say about the cultures that produced them.
With reference to 2 works write this essay, you can focus on one of the 2 or more.
The Mayor of Casterbridge,by Thomas Hardy
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Create an 8 to 10 page paper on the above topic. This paper should be in the form of a persuasive paper that states a thesis and argues that thesis through the use of textual evidence (i.e. quotes).In addition; your paper should refer to at least one of the critical readings