Hi i am an international Baccalaureate student and i am obliged to write an extended essay
I choose english as a subject and i will compare or analyse two similiar books or an authors books referring to a common concept
previous essay topics are like that

An exploration of Jane Austen's use of the outdoors in Emma

The Empowerment of the Feminine in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

How and why have Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in The Yellow Wallpaper used inanimate objects as motifs for female madness?

"Slaughterhouse Five" and "The Things They Carried"
as Anti-War Novels

Symbolism in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"

The Influence of the Supporting Cast of "Cinderella" on
the Story as a Whole

Dance in Jane Austen’s novels
“What are the role and the significance of dance in Pride and Prejudice
and Emma?”

Death in Emily Brontë’s and Emily Dickinson’s poetry
“How is the subject of death treated in selected poems by Emily Brontë
and Emily Dickinson?”

Fiction and history in Blaise Cendrars’ L’Or
“How and why does Cendrars modify facts and rewrite history in his first
novel?”

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I really need a book and a concept recommendation
i can do something from jane austen but it is too classic
is there any other novels i can do in relation with jane austen or other classics

so far i have in mind : Girl,interrupted and one flew over the cuckoos nest
but i dont know how much i can produce or choose how kind of a concept to analyse and also i am not sure there are much literary metarial to evaluate

so i would be really glad if you can recommend me some books that you saw distinct similiar points or some concepts that effects the novel

thanks in advance

If your books don't need to be great literature, you could look at the treatment of immortality in Immortality Inc by Robert Sheckley and Why call them back from heaven by Simak .

There's a Books Compared group which might furnish you with some starting material - beware plagerism though!

How about the interweaving of narratives in the novels of Peter Ackroyd. Several of his novels involve stories from two different times told in parallel.

How about (he says mischievously) considering whether the elements of the Gothic novel that are parodied or satirized in Austen's Northanger Abbey are still discernible in contemporary romances such as the notorious Twilight (whose touchstone refuses to manifest)...?

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jun 30, 2009, 11:30am.

>5 That is a very interesting idea. I would like to read that essay.

message 5 is really great.
I would definetly consider that as one of the possibilities
Thank you very much , i will consult to my supervisor about something wheather the twilight will be taken seriously as an acedemic paper but i hope there wont be any problem.
Oh this topic is great i will choose if i can find main sub topics that could generate 4000 words
thanks again

With apologies to David Lodge, who suggested this in (I think) The British Museum is Falling Down, may I suggest 'References to Lavatories in Victorian Literature'?

It would certainly avoid depradation of the earth's paper-producing forests!

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jun 30, 2009, 12:37pm.

How about some comparisons between Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jun 30, 2009, 1:27pm.

#8: laklak77 "do you think it counts as plagiarism" (my spelling)

If you use one source as the basis for your thesis, it's plagiarism: if you use twenty, it's research.

A lot of the sort of questions you might consider will have been considered by others already. You run two dangers: some ideas you come up with might not be original, because they might be fairly obvious (but need mentioning anyway); you miss saying something fairly obvious, then you get blamed for poor research.

#11 A lot of the sort of questions you might consider will have been considered by others already. You run two dangers: some ideas you come up with might not be original, because they might be fairly obvious (but need mentioning anyway); you miss saying something fairly obvious, then you get blamed for poor research

Hey, don't be so negative! This is for a Baccalaureate essay, not a Ph.D.

#13: MyopicBookworm "This is for a Baccalaureate essay, not a Ph.D."

From what I hear of Baccalaureate, I'm glad I never had to go for one. An eighteen year old doesn't need such a wide education and isn't capable of properly appreciating it, some pre-uni specialisation is better. There's plenty of time to catch up on generalities later, with the maturity to assimilate them.

Is your point, that the markers at this level aren't going to bother to check for plagiarism or depth of research?

They'll check for plagiarism, right enough; but I'm sure they won't be expecting the same depth of research. My undergraduate dissertation didn't have to be as high-powered as my doctoral thesis for the same university.

i got no worries about plegiarism now, thank you all for your usefull contributions