Discuss individuals’ discontentment in modern society
Using either of the two prompts below, The essay should be a
minimum of 5 full pages in length (no more than 7) in the Humanities format (see
Mechanics section in Humanities Program Writing Handbook). A counterargument is
required:
1. Many authors in this course discuss individuals’ discontentment in modern society.
According to two of the following authors – Rich, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka or Eliot – why
are individuals unhappy in modern society, and how can this unhappiness be solved?
3. Using two of the following authors – Nietzsche, Kafka or Eliot – make an argument
about how shame functions as a tool of control.
Adrienne Rich “Diving into the Wreck”
Karl Marx Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche The Anti-Christ
Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis” and T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
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