Year of Wonders - Essay Topic Breakdown

[anastasiastarz]

What are the main categories that all the prompts could fall under? I'm having a bit of trouble on this... Help please?

So far I got:
1.   Reaction to Crisis
2.   The Book itself (Style/structure/language/1st person narration/feminist view)
3.   Anna’s Development/Change

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List of Prompts:
•   Heroes & Villains
•   Reaction to conflict/fear
•   Betrayal
•   Testing of society/individuals
•   Some reaction irrationally to people/occurrences they don’t understand
•   Fear tears apart lives + fabric of society
•   Plague was a vehicle for unleashing the hidden fears and suspicions that governed the lives of the village
•   Anna’s development/growth/change
•   Anna’s courage and determination that results in her eventual emancipation
•   Anna is the true heroine? -> courage + determination
•   Who is the true hero? Elinor or Anna?
•   Women constrained by [social] expectations of their time
•   Conflict between medieval times & enlighten thinking
•   Marriage & Motherhood
•   Social: class & control – and the lose of it
•   Style/structure/language/1st person narration/feminist view
•   Loss & Survival
•   Religion/superstition
•   Competing Worlds: Sacred, secular, superstitious
•   Importance of having/questioning Faith
•   Knowledge/wisdom
•   Social structure/institutions challenged/breakdown
•   Change in morals
•   Faith/Hope & Love
•   Strength – women stronger than men (strength and resilience)
•   Men are weak
•   Survivors transformed
•   True heroes put others ahead
•   Mompellion is a Villain
•   M isolates the village for selfish reasons
•   Sinister side of religious
•   Nature vs religion = opposing forces
•   Death/destruction = rebirth
•   Humanity is at the mercy of the natural world
•   Human suffering + cruelty
•   To be true to yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest achievement