2009B FRQ #3

Post date: Sep 25, 2013 5:38:1 PM

Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or

social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and

explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.

You may choose a work from the list below or another novel or play of similar literary merit.

All the King’s Men

American Pastoral

Angels in America

Anna Karenina

Antigone

The Awakening

The Bluest Eye

Brave New World

Broken for You

Ceremony

Copenhagen

The Crucible

Cry, the Beloved Country

A Doll House

Equus

Germinal

Go Tell It on the Mountain

The Grapes of Wrath

Gulliver’s Travels

The Handmaid’s Tale

Hard Times

House Made of Dawn

Invisible Man

Jude the Obscure

 Julius Caesar

The Jungle

Main Street

Major Barbara

“Master Harold” . . . and the Boys

Moll Flanders

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Native Son

Never Let Me Go

1984

The Octopus

Oliver Twist

A Passage to India

A Raisin in the Sun

Reservation Blues

Rhinoceros

Sister Carrie

Sophie’s Choice

The Things They Carried

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

USA

The Women of Brewster Place