The Rood

Required Length: At a minimum, the essay ends somewhere on the fifth and the works cited page comprises the sixth page.

Genereal instructions: Present your answer to the central question as an interpretive thesis, included in an introductory paragraph. Focus your response on the text (or texts) named in the prompt you have chosen. Persuasively support your thesis through close reading (careful analysis of specific textual details).

Observations about the text are useful as evidence; paraphrases are not the same as interpretations. If you attempt to summarize or even to analyze too many parts of your chosentext, you will almost certainly do too little close reading and analysis of specific details to be successful. Make sure that you are confining yourself to a specific interpretive focus.

Prompt:

Choose two of the characters from the list at the end of this question and compare what the texts that tell their stories do to make the two characters you chose appear to be great or to be heroic. Use your analysis to support a claim about what heroism or greatness is. Why is it significant that heroism or greatness can be defined this way? The characters I chose from are BRUTUS and PWYLL

Articles for characters:

(The Rood) The article is attached in the PDF file

https://earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com/chapter/fou… (Pwyll)

• The Rood [Using only evidence for the PDF]
• Pwyll [using only evidence from the portions of the Mabinogi that were assigned readings]
• The ESSAY WILL BE STRONGEST IF IT ENGAGES PRIMARILY WITH THE BOLDED QUESTION.
• you are presented with a “why does it matter” question. The best thesis sentences will answer this question but will not simply say “it matters because X.” Suppose that your draft thesis sentence is: It matters that knowledge can be defined as beauty because this shows that gaining it requires thinking outside the box
• Research and Secondary Sources: This paper does not require you to do any research, and I strongly recommend that you not take on any hunting for explanations or published criticism. However, should you make use in any way (even just reading them to help your thinking) of any sources (e.g. a Wikipedia entry, a paraphrase, a work of literary criticism), then you absolutely must document your use in accordance with MLA citation practices. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and will earn a zero for your assignment. A works cited page is required
  1. (How to Get a good grade rubric)The essay displays a sophisticated analysis of the assigned and chosen text insupport of an insightful thesis which makes an interpretive claim responsive to the bolded question in the chosen prompt. Well-chosen evidence is specific, skillfully integrated into theessay, and analytically developed to show a supportive relationship to the thesis. Each paragraph is coherently focused and logically organized; each paragraph’s topic is clear and specific; transitional devices and effective paragraph organization facilitate logical flow within each paragraph and throughout the essay. MLA citation style (in text citations and works cited page) is followed without error. Sentences demonstrate control and skillful variation. Diction is precise, vivid, and in an appropriately formal register (including maintaining academic formality by avoiding contractions, passive voiced constructions, and the second person pronoun). The essay has been carefully edited and has no or very few errors in grammar, punctuation, typography or spelling.
• • MLA in-text citations for poetry call for (1) a lead-in phrase that leads into the quotation or paraphrase; (2) quotation marks around quoted words; and (3) a parenthetical reference, with the author’s last name and the relevant LINE number(s), at the end of each sentence in which quoted or paraphrased material appears, if the line numbers are printed in the text you read; if there are page numbers but not line numbers, you would use page numbers; if there are neither page numbers nor line numbers you would use no numbers.
  • Use / to show line breaks in quoted poetry or verse drama.
  • • To quote dialogue from a play, when it is necessary to include all at once the words ofmore than one character, indent each line of dialogue one half inch from the margin and start each line of dialogue with the name of the speaking character (typed in ALL CAPS or in SMALL CAPS). Put a period after the character’s name, then a space, and then the words. Format the line with a hanging indentation of a further half an inch.
    • Indented quotes (which you should only use when you have dialogue that you have to quote or when you are quoting more than four lines of poetry in order to talk about the specific diction or sound of the lines) should be double spaced just like the rest of your essay;