Introducing a literary essay

1- Biographical information
Poe; -Raised in a difficult environment
- Suffered from alcoholism

2- Quotation:
-"To be or not to be. That is the question."

3- Definition:
- Insanity is doing the same thing all the time and expecting different results.

4- Element of fiction
-Irony

5- Life experiences

6- Very brief plot summary

7- Philosophical concept
- Everyone seeks happiness,etc.

8- Historical background
- Civil War lasted for five years and saw 500 000 deaths...


Read the opening lines of student essays. Write the number of the suggestion that fits best.

___5__ Human emotions are complex and sometimes inexplicable, as are our behaviours. It is hard to understand why people often try to impose themselves on others, taking others` freedom, as the main the husband does in this story.

____7__ It is in human nature to seek freedom. And we have no control over the fact that we are born to be free. That is what the author realizes in this story.

____1__ The author was a young widow. And so she was able to understand the many emotions of a woman who learns that her husband has died unexpectedly.

__8____ In the story, the author presents the role and the feeling of women in the nineteenth century. As the author suggests, women at the time had very few rights.

___2___ ‘Free! Body and soul free!’ Every human being is born free, according to the author.

___3___ What is freedom? According to The American Heritage Dictionary Dictionary, freedom is ‘the capacity to exercise choice.’ In this story, the author presents the main character as a woman without freedom, one who could not make her own choices in life.

__6____ The story by the author shows us the unexpected reaction of the main character after she loses her husband. She grieves at first, then surprisingly becomes cheerful at the thought of her husband being around no longer.

___4___ Spring is the time of year when nature becomes vivid again after long months of cold, gray, sad weather. In this story, the spring scene offers a parallel to a personal situation.