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[ink_splotch]

Since I don't really feel like going to bed right now and the alternatives to this are outlining the stupid fic idea in my head or working on my English translation, I'm posting a poll instead.

Because lazy is my middle name. Or vaguely in the middle, anyway.

So, here's the thing: this year I have to do a big written project in one of my A-level courses. I'm doing English, because it's easiest. But here's the thing - I can't figure out what I want to write about (and I have to turn my request in in less than a month, so I'm a little panicked). Here's where you (and the poll) come in.

[Poll #568063]

See, that wasn't so hard!

ETA: Summary of 'Lost', Summary of 'Specimen Days', Summary of Roald Dahl books, Wiki's entry about Holmes, Wiki's entry about 'The Merchant of Venice', Wiki's entry for 'Brideshead Revisited' and Summary of 'Monstrous Regiment'. And yes, I do realize I'm the only one who cares enough to use these links. It was fun compling them anyway *grins*

Comments

[myhappyface.livejournal.com]

I didn't know how much space I could take up in the little box. When writing about TMoV, you can deal with the text on several different levels - the structuring of language (of which Wild Bill was the master); the possible reasons for Antonio's melancholia - his unrequited man!love - and the anti-Semitism inherent in the text: Shylock's horrible forced conversion to Christianity is itself a crime so monstrous as to be on par with the physical price Shylock would have willingly exacted from Antonio earlier in the text. You could also examine Portia's nascent feminism - masquerading as a lawyer, a woman in a man's world, made to marry whomever guessed her father's riddle.

In conclusion: SHAKESPEARE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

...although Shakespeare would be good, too.