“Every story is born out of and speaks to past stories.” How do two of the works you have studied refer to past stories and/or draw upon literary traditions, and to what effect?

Both McCarthy and Bechdel make use of intertextual references and allusions to depict past stories as something that has an enduring effect on the present, especially when inherited from a generation to another, from father to child. In The Road,… Continue Reading

Identify some of the forms intolerance can take, and discuss how its effects on both the victims and the intolerant are presented in two of the works you have studied.

Creon in Antigone is an intolerant figure, perhaps because he represents an authoritarian regime that is unbending in its laws and decrees. Intolerance in itself is dangerous; an intolerant power, especially a form of intolerance that believes itself to be… Continue Reading