Write a 6-7 page Document Analysis based on one of the texts listed . Your task is to show how the text you have selected provided information and reflects on the period during which it was written. In other words, what does the text show about how people lived, events, socio-economic relationships, ideas or religious sentiments during the period we have studied?

Do not just assert what you think to be true – you need to quote or paraphrase from the document to show exactly how the document supports the position you are asserting. If the work you have chosen in long, you may restrict your analysis to only a part of the work, as long as your paper is 6-7 pages long. Remember, this is not a book report – I am not interested in the plot or the overall argument of the work you are studying. I am only interested in specific passages that reveal some aspect of the period during which the work was written.

List of book options below

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain

More, Thomas. Utopia. Kiernan Lundgaard

Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders

Wu Ch’eng-En. Monkey.

Voltaire, Letters from England

Montesquieu. Persian Letters

Diderot, Denis. The Nun Julia Simons

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789.

Paine, Thomas. Age of Reason.

Clarkson, Thomas. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times.

Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. 1844.

Zola, Emile. Women’s Paradise.

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness, 1899

Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House. 1964

Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds

Wells, H.G. The Time Machine

Okakura, Kakuzo, Ideals of the East, 1904.

Antin, Mary. The Promised Land, 1912

Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis, 1915.

Lenin, Vladimir. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1917.

Lu Xun, The Real Story of Ah-Q, 1919 1971

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929.

Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita, 1928-1934. 1967

George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon, 1940.

George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve, 1954

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American, 1955

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart, 1958 1994

Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 2004

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962

Oe, Kenzaburo. A Personal Matter, 1964 1969