Mortality and Humanity
• 5 pages; double-spaced; MLA heading and title.
• Citing/quoting any of the primary sources, proper in-text citations are required; a works cited page is not required if you are using the assigned, provided editions of the texts. If you are using another edition of any of the primary sources, a works cited page is required. Please note: this means any version of the text that is not provided by the instructor or the version of the text ordered through the bookstore.
• The guidelines for this essay are rather loose, but your essay must contain a thesis: a unique interpretation and focus for your argument. Avoid summarizing the plots of the works. I would suggest running your topic by me for approval to make sure you are on the right path.
Choose only one of the below suggestions to write an essay:

1. Develop your own essay topic/argument/interpretation on one of the following:
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• The Tempest by Williams Shakespeare
• I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Your thesis must contain a unique interpretation of the work and a focus for the essay; the argument must then be supported with relevant discussion and examples from the work.

Or

2. How does one character (or characters) in one of the following reflect our mortality or humanity?
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• The Tempest by Williams Shakespeare
• I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Discussion should include how your character demonstrates or discovers their humanity/mortality, thus demonstrating the universal human truth or emotion of the work and what it means to be a mortal human.

Mortality and Humanity
• 5 pages; double-spaced; MLA heading and title.
• Citing/quoting any of the primary sources, proper in-text citations are required; a works cited page is not required if you are using the assigned, provided editions of the texts. If you are using another edition of any of the primary sources, a works cited page is required. Please note: this means any version of the text that is not provided by the instructor or the version of the text ordered through the bookstore.
• The guidelines for this essay are rather loose, but your essay must contain a thesis: a unique interpretation and focus for your argument. Avoid summarizing the plots of the works. I would suggest running your topic by me for approval to make sure you are on the right path.
Choose only one of the below suggestions to write an essay:

1. Develop your own essay topic/argument/interpretation on one of the following:
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• The Tempest by Williams Shakespeare
• I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Your thesis must contain a unique interpretation of the work and a focus for the essay; the argument must then be supported with relevant discussion and examples from the work.

Or

2. How does one character (or characters) in one of the following reflect our mortality or humanity?
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• The Tempest by Williams Shakespeare
• I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Discussion should include how your character demonstrates or discovers their humanity/mortality, thus demonstrating the universal human truth or emotion of the work and what it means to be a mortal human.