For Essay, choose two writers featured in our English 102, research their work, and explore the following questions:

1. Do you see evidence for biographical influences in each writer’s work? That is, does the work seem to be based on or informed by lived experience? If so, how?
2. Is the writer trying to entertain or to educate? If you think the writer does both, how does the writer use entertainment to educate?
3. How does each writer anticipate and work with the communicative needs and expectations of his or her audiences to achieve that purpose? For this question, you will need to find out when and how the work was first published or performed, and what else was going on at the time.
4. How is each author’s purpose reflected in his or her work? Explore possibilities like the set-up, the protagonists and antagonists, the tone, or any other feature of that reveals the work’s themes.

To complete this assignment, you must conduct some additional research and make use of at least four new references, material that has not already been assigned as course readings. In addition, you must also integrate some ideas from literary criticism. You can use ideas from one source in Module 5 or from Chapter 3 in Literature for Critical Reflection, “Writing about Literature: An Overview”.