The writing details are included in the document, please read the requirements for the writing carefully. No work cited can be used!! The writing must be original and use your own words to write.
Write 3 essays for each prompt, each essay should around 500 words, and must have 5 paragraphs, and should include a clear thesis—a specific, unique way of reading the text in response to the essay question. You will support your thesis with references to the text’s events and/or evidence from the text. No other source can be used, the reference needs to include a brief in-text citation with a page number (but in there you need to write down the specific chapters and also the page number you used, you can get the relevant materials in website very easily, some are provided for links)
This writing is about two episodes of the BBC miniseries, North and South, based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1854 novel by the same name. Drawing primarily from anthology reading on the Victorian Era, create an argument about how we consider the miniseries in a particular cultural context, such as politics of gender, “the Two Nations”, or labor reform and unions. Remember to create an argument about how you “read” this miniseries in a unique way, use specific scene in film to support your idea
Relevant material:
BBC miniseries: North and South
In an interview about Crimson Peak, del Toro claims “I did not want to make a movie where marriage is the ultimate blessing” [Del Tora] adds. “In Crimson Peak marriage is the gateway to horror.” Discuss the way in which Del Toro maps a modern horror story onto a late 19th century marriage plot and how he transforms marriage into something horrifying. Consider how del Toro’s depiction of marriage comments on various Victorian themes/contexts such as “A Manchester Marriage” “North and South” and modernity/technology
Relevant Material:
Crimson Peak
“A Manchester Marriage” by Elizabeth Gaskell
link: http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth_gaskell/3652/
North and South (same material with question 1)
There are several governing issues that make up the 19th century discussions and debate of “The Woman Question”- Education, Marriage, suffrage. Choose one of these issue and compare and contrast how it is discussed in two of the Victorian works. You may choose to discuss a non-fiction work from the “Women in context” section of the anthology or John Stuart Mill’s “On The Subjection of Women”, or even consider some of the fictional works in the Victoria era like “The Manchester Marriage” to deal with these questions.
Relevant material:
“On the Subjection of Women”(just focus chapter 1, start with paragraph 8, “if people are mostly so little aware how completely…., ends with the last paragraph)
link: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mill-john-stuart/1869/subjection-women/index.htm
“The Manchester Marriage” by Elizabeth Gaskell
link: http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth_gaskell/3652/
