1. You must use three sources in your PBA essay!
- A novel/short story read this year
- Existentialism is a Humanism
- Tolstoy Primary/Secondary Source
This weekend choose at least two (try three if you can) of the subjects below that work together to make a larger commentary on the human condition. For instance: I might choose Inner Life vs Outer Life, Propriety/Bourgeois Society, God, and The Meaningful Life. Then, in your notebook discuss how you see them working together.
- Death
- Propriety/Bourgeois Society
- Morality
- God
- Love (Really, this one is developed by the end of the novella)
- Inner Life vs Outer Life
- Power/Control
- Pleasant/Proper
- The Meaningful Life
Then, still working with the combo from above, choose a novel/short story from this year’s reading that connects and explain that connection. Next, connect Existentialism is a Humanism to your combination. Finally, begin your Tolstoy research! You are trying to find a primary/secondary source on Tolstoy that is relevant to your chosen thematic/philosophical combination.