Final Paper Topic

I had been having a hard time coming up with a paper topic for this class. Originally I had decided that I would simply write about what it was that I had learned in this class, and why it mattered. I had thought that I would focus mainly on reality, and how the class and the readings had in a way changed my sense of what exactly that word means.

However, after listening to group five's presentation I have changed my mind. In one of the scenes that was taken from the movie "Gladiator," Maximus Arillius was speaking to a group of men about to engage in battle and he said this, "What we do in life echos in eternity." For some reason this quote really stood out to me, and I feel like it can readily be applied to literature as well. Throughout the many classes with Dr. Sexon it has become blatantly apparent that nothing is original, and every piece of literature has elements, or "echos," of other works. Even the most high brow writers, such as Shakespeare, often take themes from previous low brow works. This is the theme I will write my paper on. However, I am going to write about "Alice in Wonderland" and discuss how the themes that we have discussed in class apply to the movie and how echos of the novels we have read have reverberated into the movie as well.