Malory’s Morte d’Arthur

Achieved:1.Student can analyze, in written media, literary works as reflections of the political, cultural (that is,
literary), or socioeconomic interactions among people or organizations of the world.2.Students demonstrate
their ability to analyze, in written media, forms of literary expression that reflect individual, social, cultural, and
aesthetic values.Instructions: Using one of the prompts below, craft a well-organized, well-developed, wellsupported, grammatically responsible essay of at least three full pages (not including the WorksCited page).
You should not do any outside research for this paper; rather, this essay should be a close and comparative
reading of the primary texts we have worked through thus far. Also, you should not read from outside of the
texts that we have assigned and discussed in class – stick to what you were assigned and what we discussed.
You may and should make reference tothe lecture notes and to the Power Point presentations in your essay if
it helps you develop a point or helps you establish context. However, since you will be doing close readings,
you should quote from the primary texts to support your argument and you should therefore have aWorks Cited
page. Parameters: At least 3 full pages (not including Works Cited page); double spaced throughout; 12 point
Times New Roman font; MLA formatted header & Works Cited page; page numbers; MLA formatted
parenthetical citations.1.Outsiders, or “monsters,” have been present in several works that we have read up
untilnow. We have also discussed, though, how these “monstrous” figures are not merely scary-looking
creatures, but are rather embodiments of taboo behavior that make them socially unacceptable. Interestingly,
the monstrous figures in Malory’s Morte d’Arthurand the movie Tristan & Isolde are humans. Take at least one
figure from each of these two works and explore how these figures represent cultural “monstrosities.” You must
also explain why/how this is significant to the culture that created them. Be sure to make judicious use of
relevant quotes to support your topic sentences.2.Machiavelli’s The Prince and Malory’s Morte dArthur present
us with two different leadership styles – pragmatic and idealistic. In a response paper, take some time to point
out how each work represents these two leadership styles, as well as how each work addresses the positive
and negative sides of these two leadership styles. You’ll want to make sure that you define each of these
leadership styles, and that you make judicious use of relevant quotes to support your topic sentences.
3.Compare and contrast Confucius’s ideas of leadership with those of Machiavelli as presented in our
selections from The Prince. In what ways are Confucius’s ideas in The Analects similar to and different from
those that Machiavelli articulates in The Prince?