2005 FRQ #3
Post date: Sep 25, 2013 4:32:9 PM
In Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess "that outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions." In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
You may select a work from the list below or another novel or play of comparable literary merit.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn King Lear
The Age of Innocence Madame Bovary
The American Middlemarch
As You Like It Mrs. Dalloway
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 1984
Billy Budd Obasan
Bless Me, Ultima One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Brave New World Persuasion
Catch-22 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Color Purple The Portrait of a Lady
The Crucible Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Death of a Salesman The Scarlet Letter
A Doll's House Surfacing
Ethan Frome The Sun Also Rises
A Gesture Life Their Eyes Were Watching God
Go Tell It on the Mountain Typical American
Invisible Man