I watched several presentations by my classmates, and I found their choices of books to be very diverse and very interesting. There were some books that I would have loved to learn about, some books which I had already read, and some I had never heard of before.
My own syllabus consisted of 3 different areas of comparison. The first area 2 novels were ones that dealt with the darker side of human nature/animal nature that were brought to the surface by a total liberation of rules and authority - William Golding's Lord of the Flies versus George Orwell's Animal Farm. The next area was a lighter one, satirical comedies that involved the respective authors making fun of society in their respective eras - Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest versus Aristophanes' Frogs. Finally, I also chose 3 poems that dealt with family and the importance of appreciating family - William Wordsworth's We Are Seven versus D.H Lawrence's Piano versus E.E Cummings' Parents.
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