Analyze Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”
Guided by a unifying thesis statement about the work in general, your paper needs to have analysis of three or more of the following elements, each in a separate paragraph with an appropriate topic sentence indicating the element you are analyzing. You will not merely write a synopsis of the plot. You can only analyze plot in one paragraph.
Choose at least 3 of the following elements to write about in the paper:
-background of author and how it relates to elements below
-character and point of view of narrator
-themes, motifs
-symbolism
-setting
-plot
-tone or mood
-irony, dramatic irony
-imagery
-language elements such as metaphor, extended metaphor, simile
-style/genre analysis such as parable, allegory, domestic fiction, slave narrative, Gothic, cautionary tale, satire, and so on.
-analysis of the time period or movement, such as Romanticism, Transcendentalism
-imagery
-language elements such as metaphor, extended metaphor, simile
-style/genre analysis such as parable, allegory, domestic fiction, slave narrative, Gothic, cautionary tale, satire, and so on.
-analysis of the time period or movement, such as Romanticism, Transcendentalism