Assignment task:
Apply one critical perspective of your choice to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. In this 1,000-word essay you need to:
- Create a thesis claim in support of one critical perspective of your choice that we have studied over the course of this term. You must support your surface/depth analysis with textual references.
- Incorporate relevant contexts (historical/cultural).
- Synthesise relevant secondary resources to support your analysis.
- Accurately reference your work with a complete bibliography.
- Keep to the word limit of 1000 words.
Assessment criteria:
Your coursework will be graded against your ability to demonstrate the following assessment criteria:
- Analysis and evaluation of critical ideas as they are presented in literary texts;
- The application of literary theory and critical perspectives to a literary text;
- The analysis and evaluation of literary writing in its historical, cultural and socio-political contexts;
- Critical, independent thinking and persuasive argumentation in an academic context using evidence from scholarly and theoretical sources;
- The presentation of written work in forms appropriate for academic purposes, including a clearly planned structure and a correctly formatted bibliography of referenced works;