What is Violence?

Write an eight to nine page paper comparing Blood Meridian to two other texts from the class around the
question “What is violence?". Most of the texts of the class have focused on the relationship between
violence and the state—how violence is often the foundation and the undoing of the state; this relationship
could serve as a good foundation for analyzing and comparing several texts. As with the other papers
though, you are free to address any idea or aspect of the texts that you wish.