2006 FRQ #3
Post date: Sep 25, 2013 4:49:21 PM
Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel or play in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the country setting functions in the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
You may select a work from the list below or another novel or play of similar literary merit.
Adam Bede
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All the Pretty Horses
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It
The Bear
Back Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
The Bone Setter's Daughter
Ceremony
The Cherry Orchard
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
East of Eden
Ethan Frome
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
House Made of Dawn
King Lear
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Obasan
O Pioneers!
Out of Africa
The Scarlet Letter
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Thousand Acres
Tom Jones
Vicar of Wakefield
The Way We Live Now
The Winter's Tale
Wuthering Heights