2006B FRQ #3

Post date: Sep 25, 2013 4:56:58 PM

In many works of literature, a physical journey - the literal movement from one place to another - plays a central role. Choose a novel, play, or epic poem in which a physical journey is an important element and discuss how the journey adds to the meaning of the work as a whole. You may write your essay on one of the following works or on another of comparable quality. Avoid mere plot summary.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Aeneid

All the Pretty Horses

As I Lay Dying

Candide

The Canterbury Tales

Cold Mountain

The Divine Comedy

Dutchman

Going After Cacciato

Gulliver's Travels

Heart of Darkness

The Importance of Being Earnest

Light in August

Middle Passage

Moby Dick

Mother Courage

Obasan

The Odyssey

Peer Gynt

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Song of Solomon