Shakespeare’s sonnets (and for the purposes of this class and this assignment, we will consider the collected sonnets to be a single work, a single source), or Othello.
The subject is not only the piece of literature, but–more particularly–some aspect of it: sexuality, desire, friendship, betrayal, deception, the role of nature, cultural difference and exchange; the function of supernatural creatures, the hero’s journey and how it may represent the universal individual experience or the psyche; violence, war, class, materialism, etc., etc., etc. Take for granted that your audience knows the literature as well as you do. They do not need you to tell them what happens in Antigone, for example. They already know.
We’ve read what you’ve read, and don’t need it summarized back at us. Tell us what you think about it.) This is your big idea about the subject. The thesis is the thing you must prove, which gives you direction, which propels your essay forward. But still, even before you get going, you need to come up with supporting topics–those smaller ideas which, altogether, add up to your thesis. in MLA FORMAT