The research paper should discuss a major character, theme, or issue in one or more literary works of any of the authors we are reading in the course (one of the required readings).

The paper should be at least three pages long and should include at least one good secondary source. You may write your paper on any of the following authors: Sophocles, William Shakespeare, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Henry D. Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Faulkner, Anton Chekhov, Thurgood Marshall, Alice Walker, or Agatha Christie. The text of the literary work is the primary source.

Secondary sources are essays, articles, or books written by scholars or literary critics about a particular literary work, or about several literary works, or about the author.

Choose the theme of creative difference and liberation in M. L. King's essay