English IV Enriched Research Topics:
The following is the list of Research Topics for English IV. I have a sign up list in my
room and you may choose your topic on a first come first served basis. Once research
begins on Monday, you may NOT change your topic for any reason!!!!
1. Religion in The Canterbury Tales
2. Women in The Canterbury Tales
3. The Rising Middle Class in The Canterbury Tales
4. Social Classes in The Canterbury Tales
5. Thomas Hardy’s Darkness
6. Evil in the Poetry of Robert Browning
7. Grail Quest in Malamud’s The Natural
8. Marriage or Courtship in Pride and Prejudice
9. Parent-Child Relationships in the novels of Jane Austen
10. Religion in Jane Austen
11. Jane Austen’s Men and their roles in her novels
12. Manners in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
13. Jane Austen’s Comedy
14. Social Class in Jane Austen
15. Double figure in Frankenstein
16. Role of Nature in Frankenstein
17. Religion in Dr. Faustus
18. nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth
19. Love in Romeo and Juliet
20. Madness in Hamlet OR MacBeth
21. Shakespeare’s view of time in Hamlet, MacBeth, or King Lear
22. Paganism in King Lear
23. Psychological Themes in King Lear
24. Shakespeare’s Tyrants: Julius Caesar or MacBeth
25. Love in Shakespeare’s comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, OR
Twelfth Night
27. Women in Shakespeare’s comedies
28. Darkness in Light: Shakespeare’s Comedies
29. Symbol of the Gyre in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
30. John Donne’s View of God
31. John Donne’s View of Love
32. Evil in Tolkein
33. Science and Social Commentary in Huxley’s Brave New World
34. The Secret Life of Fairy Tales
35. Irony in Heart of Darkness
36. Love in the Dark Lady Sonnets
37. John Keats’s View of Truth
38. Art in the Poetry of John Keats
39. Light and/or Vision in Dante’s The Divine Comedy
40. Dante’s Beatrice
41. Theme in Scottish Border Ballads
42. Theme in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, or
The Four Quartets
44. Satire in Orwell
45. The True Story of Alice in Wonderland
46. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s View of God
47. Allegory in Lord of the Flies
48. Poetry of Seamus Heaney
49. Katherine Mansfield’s View of women
50. View of war in the poetry of Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, or Siegfried Sassoon
51. Social Class in the works of D.H. Lawrence
52. Theme in the poetry of W.H. Auden or Dylan Thomas
53. Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
54. Influence of Folklore on Bram Stoker’s Dracula
55. treatment of women in Dracula
56. social Criticism in Dracula
57. Thomas Hardy’s naturalism
58. Darkness in hardy’s poetry
59. Women in Thomas Hardy’s works
60. Kafka’s Absurd: The Metamorphosis
61. Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling’s place in the English curriculum