The Lit Based Research Paper Planning Sheet
Your Prompt: Choose an archetype from Hall’s work and trace its development from the 17th century in Shakespeare’s Hamlet through literature
and media of the modern era. Discuss how your archetype is illustrated both in Shakespeare’s play and in contemporary sources. Finally, analyze
how the archetype has adapted or how society’s perception of it has altered and what this alteration implies about our cultural values.
Thesis –
Your Archetype:
The Three Main
Characteristics You Will Be
Addressing:
1.
2.
3.
Sources – You need six, 2 PDs per source, and then a minimum of three quotes!
Source
Characters of Virtues and
Vices
Hamlet You can ONLY use
the paper copy of Hamlet
checked out from me or the
online version from my web
page.
Your Outside Reading Novel
Quote/Paraphrase #1
Quote/Paraphrase #2
(doesn’t have to be word for word –
just a reference)
(doesn’t have to be word for word –
just a reference)
Where will you place the
quote/paraphrase?
Be sure you sprinkle these throughout
your entire paper!
Intro
BP 1
BP 2
BP 3
BP 4
Concl
Intro
BP 3
Intro
BP 3
Movie, Television Show,
Play, Musical, Cartoon
Intro
BP 3
Scholarly Source
Intro
BP 3
BP 1
BP 4
BP 1
BP 4
BP 1
BP 4
BP 1
BP 4
BP 2
Concl
BP 2
Concl
BP 2
Concl
BP 2
Concl
Your Choice:
Intro
BP 3
BP 1
BP 4
BP 2
Concl
Paragraph
Character
Introduction
Example
Source/Quote
In the intro remember that you are just bring in the idea of the archetype and will discuss the characteristics
that you will be addressing. You will also want to mention whether those characteristics have changed or
stayed the same throughout time.
The Archetype:
In this paragraph you will
give an overview of your
archetype and discuss the
three characteristics you
chose above.
(name your archetype above)
Hamlet
1.
2.
3.
Your Outside Reading
Novel:
1.
2.
3.
(name your novel above)
Movie, Television Show,
Play, Musical, Cartoon:
1.
2.
3.
(name what you chose above)
Conclusion
Word:
In your conclusion you need to bring the paper full circle, and most importantly address the last part of your
paper prompt: analyze how the archetype has adapted or how society’s perception of it has altered and what
this alteration implies about our cultural values.
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