General info for topics for next paper

For those who like to get started early:  You will focus on one of our texts, with a brief reference to a second as part of your argument (the reference to the second text can be either support or counter-example); make sure you address the questions below in the context of your essay.  Please note:  none of these questions are your specific thesis.  Your thesis should be something about the child/childhood or the parent/parental in your chosen text.

1.  What is evil in this story--what does it do?
2.  Where, according to the text, does evil come from--what is its point of origin in the story?
3.  How does the story get you to participate in it (the story, the evil, the argument, etc.)?

Some pithy quotations:

 

Evil is unspectacular and always human

And shares our bed and eats at our own table.   

--W.H. AUDEN, Herman Melville

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.
--FANNY KEMBLE, Further Records, Feb. 12, 1875

Evil is a point of view.
--ANNE RICE, Interview with the Vampire




 The rules are the same as for the first paper.