A literary analysis essay is a type of essay which includes an argumentative analysis of a piece of literature. You will examine the text – novel, play, story etc. analyze the idea, plot, characters, tone, writing style, devices which the writer uses to narrate his story and contextualize the text in its intellectual, cultural and political context.

The mid-term paper is used to provide training with my comments to write a more in-depth analytical paper. The Final paper will be an opportunity to demonstrate your deeper understanding of the text and the key questions arising from it, your ability to address its position in the proper historical and cultural contexts and, if necessary, its relation with other similar texts. Key questions that can help you brainstorm the essay include:
-What is the main problem or issue that the author is addressing?
-What is the author’s central claim, argument, or point?
-What assumptions does the author make?
-What evidence does the author present?
-What are the strengths and weaknesses of the text?
-What are possible counterarguments to the text’s claims?
-Why are the problem(s) and the argument(s) interesting or important given their social and cultural contexts?

Critical to writing an analytical paper would be making a clearly stated central thesis and make your argument based on textual reading, contextualization and so on to convince your readers of your thesis.

Please do:
1.Read the work which you have to analyze thoroughly, make sure that you completely understand the author’s idea, the plot and the characters;

2.Collect evidence -facts, expressions, other evidence – to make a reasonable conclusion in your analysis. You should have enough material to be persuasive in your conclusions. Make the notes while reading. You should also learn some information about the author, it will help you to understand his intentions and thoughts better.

3.Making literary analysis outline : You should understand what you will start with and what you will say in the conclusion. Make sure that you devote space to all important ideas of the author and don’t miss anything.

1. Formulate a thesis and explain why your arguments have a great significance, how are they connected to the ideas and thoughts of the author of the book or novel.

Please Avoid:

1. writing lengthy summary of the story or autobiographical essay.
2. subjective description of what you feel, e.g. you like or dislike of the text.
3. passing pure judgment on why is this piece of work is a good or bad piece.

Please also indicate in footnote or endnote if you are directly quoting or paraphrasing others’ ideas.