– This is a 2500 word essay focused on,the 17th centruy and early modern literature.
premise :
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Personally, I would like to focus on Macbeth, King James, and monarchy during the time of the early modern period, his personal beliefs and how they influenced society
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This means I could link in his methods of persecuting witches and the perceived characteristics of them, including the element of fear around female sexuality, and links to biblical references, especially the devil.
– The texts included will be Daoemonolgie by King James the 1st and the social ideas around witches and how they were tortured by the king,
– explain how they are links to devils and devil worship,and the fears around female sexuality at this time.
– inclusion of his history and secondary sources is also a must.All historical sources must be lnked to literature texts which will be:
– Macbeth By william Shakespeare
– Early Modern English Literature by Jason Scott-Warren
– Mallues Mallifecarium
– I do want the main focus of the essay to be on the monacrhy at the time,king James 1 obession with witches why this may have been,how this was reflected in the literature of the time (plus examples) and the effect this persecution had on the public
Credit will be awarded for:
quality of interpretation of texts studied (LO1);
understanding of the relevance of a variety of contexts in the analysis of texts, including the
ability to develop ideas discussed in the module (LO2);
ability to articulate how the students’ individual ‘chapters’ cohere together to form their group’s
‘book’ (LO3);
extent and effectiveness of research and scholarly skills (LO4)
quality of interpretation of texts studied (LO1);
understanding of the relevance of a variety of contexts in the analysis of texts, including the
ability to develop ideas discussed in the module (LO2);
ability to articulate how the students’ individual ‘chapters’ cohere together to form their group’s
‘book’ (LO3);
extent and effectiveness of research and scholarly skills (LO4)