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For this assignment, you will need to demonstrate your ability to apply the idea

For this assignment, you will need to demonstrate your ability to apply the ideas in Freud, Plato, and Lacan to analyzing themes, ideas, characters, and actions in the “narrative” texts from the second half of the semester (Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, Between the World and Me)
The successful paper will:
Demonstrate a clear, sophisticated understanding of ideas developed in our analysis of Freud, Lacan, and Plato and be able to appropriately apply those ideas to an analysis of Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Between the World and Me.
Will accurately represent the positions/ideas/themes/actions presented in Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Betweenthe World and Me.
Will choose appropriate quotes from Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Betweenthe World and Me and effectively integrate them into the student’s own argument regarding the topic.
Will state and develop a thesis in response to one of the assigned topics.
Topic:
Crazy Talk. What makes a speech (or speech in general) seem rational? What makes it seem “irrational?” Hamlet, Ophelia, and Antigone all have moments when their speech is interpreted as lacking in sanity and/or rationality. Analyze these moments in both plays and explain what this can tell us about what are the marks of rationality in spoken worlds.

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