Research help: What’s a good topic for a Research Paper? - Help.com

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The best topics are ones that originate out of your own reading of a work of literature, but here are some common approaches to consider:

* A discussion of a work’s characters: are they realistic, symbolic, historically-based?
* A comparison/contrast of the choices different authors or characters make in a work
* A reading of a work based on an outside philosophical perspective (Ex. how would a Freudian read Hamlet?)
* A study of the sources or historical events that occasioned a particular work (Ex. comparing G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion with the original Greek myth of Pygmalion)
* An analysis of a specific image occurring in several works (Ex. the use of moon imagery in certain plays, poems, novels)
* A “deconstruction” of a particular work (Ex. unfolding an underlying racist worldview in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness)
* A reading from a political perspective (Ex. how would a Marxist read William Blake’s “London”?)
* A study of the social, political, or economic context in which a work was written — how does the context influence the work?

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