Project Topic Brainstorm

Topic #1

The first topic that interests me is choosing a reading that reflects on historical, social, political and/or economic context. This is the most interesting topic to me because I like to read a lot of philosophy and this fits perfectly with that narrative. Some of my favorite works include Aristotle, Descartes, and Sartre. I very much enjoy reading works that were made hundreds, possibly thousands of years ago and the commentary of the author fitting in current day society. Connecting the dots of old work, and learning about why certain people might have thought that way during the time (i.e. Renee Descartes writing about God even though he did not really believe in one, only because his culture would not allow him to publish work that denounced God) is very fascinating to me. In all finding a topic that I could digest, while learning more about a culture and the meaning behind a reading is something I would thoroughly enjoy doing.

Topic #2

The second topic that I would be interested in is choosing a female character to focus on in a piece of fiction. In all honesty, women are viewed differently throughout history, for better or for worse. I believe that reading a work of fiction and seeing how an author portrays their female character would be very interesting. Analyzing the work and analyzing the time period that the work was made in, I would like to be able to see if the authors views on women in their society matches what the world's view on women in society would be. Also, I would like to compare how my attitude towards this female character would be, and I would like to see if the writing of the character could be misleading just because the character is a female. Overall I think this would be a very fun case study to do and analyzing a work of art in this way seems both challenging and entertaining.

Topic 3

The third topic that I would be interested in is picking between love, work, and freedom and discussing those selections in a piece of literature. These three things all have a big impact on my life, since I have a girlfriend, work, and go to school all at the same time, my life can get kind of hectic at times. Managing time is something that is important to me and the triangle of love, work, and freedom is hard to keep in line. I think that reading about this subject and analyzing what goes wrong and what goes right depending on the decisions the character in the story makes could actually be beneficial to me in my own life. This topic sounds very intriguing to me, and even though the concept is rather broad I think that this would be a fun subject to write about if given the right material to study.

Topic 4

The last topic that I would be interested in is comparing and contrasting the elements of two different texts. I put this last because somewhat like my topic 3 I feel that this could be a very broad topic. Finding two pieces of literature that are comparable might be difficult or it might not, I am not sure yet. If I were to find two texts that I could compare and contrast with then I would definitely enjoy doing this topic. Searching through texts and seeing the viewpoints of different author's on how they view the world is very intriguing to me. I think that looking through different works and seeing just exactly why they would portray characters in a certain way is fun to do, especially if there is background on the author that might show you why they might be compelled to write characters in the way that they do.