Answer 1 question from the each group of questions, using specific examples and direct quotations from the range of texts we have explored so far this semester. Be succinct in your answer, making sure you have a topic sentence for each paragraph and a concluding paragraph that concisely addresses the question. Each answer will be 2-3 pages, typed. Include a cover sheet with a title for each essay, the question the essay answers, and the list of works cited in that essay. Proofread your paper! As always, you will be graded on both your ideas and how you express them in writing.

You will use examples from: "Walking," Thoreau; "Against Nature," Oates; Frankenstein, Shelley; Metropolis, Lang; Machinal, Treadwell; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Dick; 1 painting, & 1 poem. So that's at least 8 examples. Use 4 examples in each answer, using each text once. In addition to the 8 required examples, you may use Gods & Monsters, Modulations, a website, or any other text we have encountered in this class.

Group A: Themes & Ideas (Choose one question. Use at least 4 examples in your answer.)

1) How is Nature represented in the texts we have read and discussed this semester?

2) In the texts, how are Nature and Technology imagined as having gender?

3) What effect do technology and machines have on human nature?

4) What dreams about controlling nature are expressed in the texts?

5) In the texts, does humankind control technology, or does it control us?

Group B: Literary & Artistic Movements (Choose one question. Use at least 4 examples in your answer. Consider BOTH techniques [how] as well as content.)

1) What do Romanticism and Expressionism have in common?

2) Using the texts for examples, discuss how Romanticism and Expressionism dramatize the following analogy: Nature:Technology::Emotions:Reason

3) Explain how Expressionism extends Romanticism into the 20th century.

4) How are Romanticism and Expressionism different?