What is the nature of the struggle in “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and what light does it shed on the social and moral forces that shaped the events/incidents in the short story?
based on your reading of Wole Soyinka’s play Death and the King’s Horseman. You will use either the Hepburn or Williams article in support of your argument. Develop an argument about one of the themes in Death and the King’s Horseman. You can write about: The questions of race and ritual in the face of modernity. Death as a character/presence. Culture and religion. The play as Soyinka′s response to Négritude. Your analysis will be supported/ challenged or complicated with the inclusion of one critical text. This will either be Adebayo Williams’s “Ritual and the Political Unconscious: The Case of ″Death and the King′s Horseman″”; or Joan Hepburn’s “Mediators of Ritual Closure” [pages 594-603 only]. You can start by using a passage [monologue or a few lines of dialogue] from Death and the King’s Horseman in order to interpret a position in the problem surrounding one of the four proposed topics. Your evidence for that position will derive from the argument in one of the critical texts, your reading of Death and the King’s Horseman as a whole as well – as your more focused close reading of a particular scene, dialogue or act.