In 1-2 well-developed paragraphs discuss one of the topics listed below. After you have posted your discussion, respond to the Discussion Topic posts of at least one other classmate. Feel free to engage in dialogue with more students if you wish.

Choose one of the illustrations from The Inferno in our online textbook; briefly the describe the image and the characters in it, and then explain how that image illustrates the canto with which it is paired. Finally, answer this question: what emotion do you think the artist (not Dante, but the illustrator of Dante's text) felt or thought (or wanted us to feel or think) as he or she illustrated this section; explain.

In the Pillow Book, we see the first person musings of a woman who actively pursues sexual partnerships with men. In the other two texts from this Unit that were written by women (The Lais and Genji), we see women through the eyes of male protagonists (Guigemar, Lanval, Bisclavret, and Genji). Choose one example from each of these three female-authored texts, and discuss the effect(s) of the male vs. female point of view.