Please write a short essay interpreting one of the works we have read. Use a wor

Please write a short essay interpreting one of the works we have read. Use a work that you have not yet written about in assignments 1 and 2. You must quote in your essay two students in this course. Select the quotations from our class discussion posts. Credit the quotations, by name, to the students who posted the quoted material. To design the structure of your essay, follow the instructions in “Responding (Flower, Waller)”: look at the sections subtitled Interpreting and Reading Strategies and Writing Goals for Interpreting and Writing Suggestions. Please write an essay of 500 words. You may use any one of the following prompts. The value of this assignment is 15%. The assignment is due October 20 at 11:59 PM. Writing Prompts for A Doll House Discuss the requirements of dramatic dialogue. Make reference to the theories of Bernard Beckerman (excerpts of his work are posted on Blackboard in the Ibsen units (week 5 and 6). Analyze “couples conversation.” Argue that Beckerman’s theory of dramatic dialogue either does or does not help to explain the structure of dialogues between Torvald Helmer and Nora Helmer; the conversations between Kristine and Nora; the conversations between Nora and Rank; the final conversation between Nora and Torvald; the conversation between Kristine and Kronstadt. How do the macaroons eaten by Nora conform to Chekhov’s rule of the pistol. (macaroons= sweet little cookies made with eggwhite, sugar, and ground coconut or almonds). How does the interior of the Helmer’s living room, where most of The Doll’s House is set, demonstrate the realism of the play, A Doll’s House. How does the following description, by Kronstadt, embody the aesthetic ideas of Naturalism: “Under the ice, maybe? Down in the freezing black water? Floating up in the spring, ugly, unrecognizable?” (183) Writing Prompts (Kafka): Do Kafka’s writings, “Before the Law” and “A Hunger Artist” conform to the following definitions of parables? Please discuss, keeping in mind that a parable is a succinct [=condensed], didactic [=intending to teach you something] story. A parable illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable because fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable has a subtext [=submerged or hidden theme] suggesting how a person should behave or what he should believe, or providing guidance and suggestions for proper conduct in one’s life. “Parable” is well known as the type of stories told by Jesus Christ and recorded in the Bible.) Compare your own experience to the two stories of Kafka in which the main character gets more and more exhausted and finally dies. Tell about a death or other major crisis that you experienced. Apply your personal knowledge of such events to Kafka’s description of the end of life. Be sure to be specific and to give examples illustrating your points. “The Hunger Artist” open with a first saying that everyone has lost interest in the topic of the story? “During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished.” Explain how this opening line makes this story a modernist work. What is the purpose or meaning of choosing a panther to take the place of the human hunger artist? Why not a rhinoceros or a toucan? Does the presence of animals make this story a fable rather than a parable? Is the story proposing to teach any lesson about a basic difference between the animal and the human? Both “Before the Law” and “The Hunger Artist” end when a solution is offered to a puzzle. The doorkeeper explains the mystery of the door: “Everyone strives to reach the Law,”says the man, “so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?” The doorkeeper recognizes that the man has reached his end, and, to let his failing senses catch the words, roars in his ear: “No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it.” How does the doorkeeper’s final statement take the story out of the realm of Modernism or Realism? Agree or disagree: “A Hunger Artist” cannot be considered a realist narrative because of this final bit of dialogue: “I have to fast, I can’t help it,” said the hunger artist. “What a fellow you are,” said the overseer, “and why can’t you help it?” “Because,” said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and speaking, with his lips pursed, as if for a kiss, right into the overseer’s ear, so that no syllable might be lost, “because I couldn’t find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else.”