Theme Literature

• A comparison between two books, two authors or two poems
  
  Example:
  
  A comparison between Cat's Cradle and Brave New World as visions of the future.
  
  A comparison between the different styles and approaches of Steinbeck and Hemingway.
  
  A comparison between some songs by Lennon and Springsteen.

• An analysis of a certain style
  
  Example:
  
  What is typical for modern love stories?
  
  Hemingway's style in A Farewell to Arms
  
  Shakespeare's Macbeth. Some comments.

• Literature over time
  
  Example:
  
  What was typical about 19th century American poetry?
  
  What made Dickens a success?
  
  A modern English/American/South African author
  
  Magnus Mills' The Fence and Kafka
  
  How was death described yesterday?
  
  Shakespeare and today

• The book and the movie/theatre
  
  Example:
  
  A comparison between the film version of Catch 22 and the book.
  
  Lord of the Flies and the movie from 1962

• Language
  
  Example:
  
  The slang in The Hitchhiker's Guide
  
  P.G. Wodehouse and his beautiful beginnings
  
  Shakespeare's famous quotes explained