Patricia Clark : Due Tuesday June 25,2013 at 1200noon Literary Analysis The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a 600- to 800-word paper that analyzes how gender—masculinities and...

Patricia Clark: Due Tuesday June 25,2013 at 1200noon

Literary Analysis

The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a 600- to 800-word paper that analyzes how gender—masculinities and femininities—is portrayed in
The
Odyssey.
One way to approach this assignment is to consider how male characters think and speak about female characters (human and/or divine). How do the males treat female characters? How do the female characters treat the males? What patterns emerge? Based on those patterns, can you identify models of femininities and masculinities in
The
Odyssey? In other words, are particular behaviors, conditions, or roles associated with men but not women and
vice versa? Second, analyze at least two major male characters. What does this reveal? Now carefully consider two female figures (human and/or divine). How are they represented? Using the data that you gathered, describe what the ideal ancient Greek woman and man might have been like. Next, decide if any of the female and male characters violate rules that apply towomen's and men's behavior and, in so doing, offer the audience negative models of gender. Reflect on
The Odyssey’s
ending—who wins and loses and why? What do the ultimate fates of the female and male characters reveal about ancient Greeks’ ideas about gender?

Do not
simply answer all these questions in order to develop your paper. These questions are designed to catalyze critical thinking, and you should
use the writing process described in the online lectures to compose your essay.
As you prepare to write this week’s paper make sure you understand how many things you are being asked to do.

Develop a Tentative Thesis

• How is gender portrayed in
  The
  Odyssey?


• With regard to gender, what do different elements of
  The Odyssey
  (such as genre, epic, myth, or hero) reveal about the culture, era, region, or important philosophies and values?

Please give good references in APA

• 
  Please
  make sure the thesis is clear and well focused and the introduction includes all the necessary information.


• Discussion of evidence includes quotes, paraphrase, or summary and synthesizes this material and your ideas.


• Conclusion is appropriate and reinforces the paper's main ideas without repeating the introduction word for word.


• Essay is formatted in APA style throughout and it uses appropriate grammar, spelling and mechanics.


• Quoted material does not exceed 25% of the essay


• 
  Do Not include Ancient Classic list in references in this essay
  

Citations of ancient classics must be included in the text of the paper when citing a quote, paraphrasing,and summarizing


Note that the in-text citation must be include publication date of ancient version that you are consulting after that note the chapter number of passage in question

Book use in course
The Odyssey

By Homer
Written 800 B.C.E
Translated by Samuel Butler