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Essay Topics

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Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, the wealth of the Europeans and the poverty of the natives is apparent. Compare and contrast the living conditions of the Europeans and those of the natives.

Essay Topic 2

What is romanticism? Idealism? How is old Knudsen a romantic and idealist? Give some examples that support Karen's idea of Knudsen as an idealist and romantic.

Essay Topic 3

Farah is disappointed with the Jew in The Merchant of Venice in that he does not take his pound of flesh. Knowing what you do about how the natives place so much importance on reparations, how does Farah's disappointment that the punishment of a pound of flesh was not taken in Shakespeare' story fit in with his sense of justice?

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