[Chameleos]

For my senior Research paper. the theme is English (British) Literature and i have no clue what to choose.

I was thinking Lord of the Flies by William Goldings. Anyone know some good books?

[Slow]

durrr. 'British Literature' is an absurdly general theme so if you have absolutely no guidelines wrt what you're supposed to ref then you should probably pick something to focus on and pick your works around that.

if you're set on using LotF then dystopia/dystopian fiction is a p. good theme to start with, and there's lots of staples to choose from British literature.

Super obvious ones are probably 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World. Darkness at Noon (Koestler) isn't bad. Bend Sinister (Nabokov) is p. good too. (Technically not British but he wrote it while he was in Britain so whatever :P)

Assuming this is a high school paper because you don't have any guidelines wrt length/genre/number of citations/paper length/etc so just pick two books and run a comparative analysis and you should be able to cook up a 12+ pager easily. Although tbh, there isn't much to say about most of these that hasn't already be said.

[Scyth]

My entire English year is British Literature.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (Although I thought this book was pretty dry)

And whatever that books was with the guy who

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murdered her wife, who was dying of cancer, who met the narrator who ended up living in his house, with his creepy housekeeper and in the end the house burns down

. Can't remember the title for the life of me at the moment.

[Prostigone]

Scyth, on Feb 25 2010, 02:33 AM, said:

And whatever that books was with the guy who

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murdered her wife, who was dying of cancer, who met the narrator who ended up living in his house, with his creepy housekeeper and in the end the house burns down

. Can't remember the title for the life of me at the moment.

Sounds like Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

Oh, and Daphne du Maurier is a British writer. :V

[Scyth]

Prostitute, on Feb 25 2010, 02:43 AM, said:

Sounds like Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

Yeah, that's the one.

[Chameleos]

Wow ty guys =], I like a couple of the books you guys chosen. The Rebecca one sounds pretty interesting I'll have to check that out. And yeah English literature is pretty vague, at least i didn't get Shakespeare or something..

[Arialle]

Whoa... That 'Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier' sounds interesting too... I never heard of that one before. Thanks!!

[GoddessofLove]

Women In Love or maybe Sons and Lovers?

[Nudeh]

Celes, on Feb 25 2010, 07:49 AM, said:

wuthering heights

That. Plus if you're taking AP lit, in the past 30 years Wuthering Heights has appeared 20 times (the most of any novel). So help yourself out, it's an EXCELLENT book :3.

[Chameleos]

Lawl i don't think i could ever take English for AP credit. Taking honors English and liking it.

[Lulei]

Chameleos, on Feb 25 2010, 07:00 PM, said:

Lawl i don't think i could ever take English for AP credit. Taking honors English and liking it.

At my school there was no difference aside from the exam. Honestly, English 101 was the most bs class I've taken. It's probably well worth skipping wherever you go, especially if you're in honors.

[Nudeh]

Celes, on Feb 26 2010, 03:14 AM, said:

yesss!

forget about Lancelot and Guinevere, or Tristan and Iseult. Heathcliff and Catherine = bestest.

Shhh...you might

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delude them into thinking the two actually get to spend traditional lovey dovey time together and actually are a couple that gets together. Granted, I think they deserved to! FFFFFFFFFF...at least HaretonxCatherine went right :x

[Rainbow Dash]

wat

[Nudeh]

Celes, on Feb 26 2010, 12:33 PM, said:

well even so they still are bestest ;3

/agree