*TOPIC*:
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688) is read as one of the earliest major fictional texts to comment on the transatlantic slave trade and is often studied for how it describes or represents the human body. Write a thesis-driven, argumentative essay in which you provide a reading of how Behn’s text represents bodies through the use of specific literary elements. Note that whereas it is tempting to focus this paper entirely on the initial description of the character Oroonoko, you should strive to expand beyond this description since the narrative is so very full of physical descriptions. Also, keep in mind that though simply establishing how the text uses literary elements to describes bodies (form) is required, you must also discuss the political/ ideological meaning of these descriptions (content).
1) Provide an argumentative thesis that makes a clear claim specifically about your chosen text(s) in response to your chosen prompt.
2) Construct organizing claims within the paper that establish salient links between form and content; between *specific* literary elements/ devices present in your chosen texts and the politics/ content of those texts.
3) Use direct evidence from your text in the form of quotations and instances of paraphrasing, properly cited in MLA format.
-Must be 5-6 pages long in Times New Roman, size 12 font. It must be double-
spaced and must use standard margins.
– Needs in-text citations in MLA format for all quotes or instances of paraphrasing.
If you are citing a work of poetry and you have line numbers, use those instead of page numbers. If you don’t have either line or page numbers (as in the case of Defoe’s “True-Born Englishman,” simply write the author’s name in parentheses without any number after it).
– May not use any sources that are external to the primary texts that are namedin your chosen prompt (i.e. this is a close reading paper, not a research paper).
– Needs a Works Cited page even if your only source is the textbook.
THE ONLY SOURCE IS MY BOOK, NOT A RESEARCH PAPER, NO EXTERNAL INFORMATION