Research Questions: choose one of the following research questions to answer in your final essay:
- Identity: How do we define who we are? Is our identity based on our relationships to others, our social or class status, our race or gender, our physical appearance? Is our identity defined by how others see us, or how we see ourselves? Make an argument about how identity is defined or contested in Bitch Planet, Get Out, or A Duke in Disguise.
2.Narrative perspective: Who gets to tell the story? How does their unique (and sometimes limited) perspective shape the narrative? When does narrative perspective shift or change, and to what effect? Make an argument about the narrative perspective in Bitch Planet, Get Out, or A Duke in Disguise.
3.Love: “Sometimes love required sacrifices; [Verity] had known this since her earliest days” (Sebastian 264). How is love established and maintained? Is it through trust, communication, physical intimacy? Does love require sacrifice, and how much? Make an argument about how love is built or challenged in Bitch Planet, Get Out, or A Duke in Disguise.
4.Gender: In lectures, we’ve discussed that masculinity and femininity are not singular concepts or experiences, but broad categories which contain multiplicities and sometimes contradictions. Furthermore, they are not the only gender categories that exist. Make an argument about gender representation or enforcement in Bitch Planet, Get Out, or A Duke in Disguise.
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