Choose one of the questions below to answer for this assignment. Please remember to copy/paste the
question with your response and analysis. You should choose a question that you find interesting and believe
you can answer in an engaging manner. You will want to support your response not only with good logic and
explanations on your part but also with pertinent passages (short quotations are best) from the texts that
pertain to the question you have chosen.
• Your response should be in the form of a typical essay (probably four to six paragraphs), with a short
introduction, thesis statement, and supporting paragraphs with a conclusion.
• Your essay should total at least 500 words.
- Explain some of the crucial differences in the experience of slavery that Harriet Jacobs and Frederick
Douglass have. In particular, how does gender play a role in defining their respective hardships? - In what way does Frederick Douglass’s slave narrative embody a striving for freedom through a journey
toward self-definition? - Melville’s narrator says that “Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.” In what way
does Bartleby act as a form of non-violent protest against labor exploitation? - Demonstrate how Rebecca Harding Davis uses the realist genre to bring awareness to the difficult
conditions and lives of mill workers. - In what ways does "The Brothers" support or transgress the normative conceptions of gender roles? Do you
see ways in which Alcott’s Transcendentalism supports her concept of gender? - Explore one of the principles listed in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments” or one of the
primary arguments in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century and show how it elucidates a form of
oppression that women suffered under at the time they wrote their works