In Act III scene iv, Hamlet appears to chastise his mother for being unfaithful to his father, but upon closer examination, it becomes clear that hamlet is anxious about his mother’s power as a sexual being, who does not conform to the stereotypical gender roles expected of mothers.

Using the Ideas you were able to generate through your analysis of the short story “On the Rainy River” (will attach the literary theory graphic organizer containing the ideas”, focus on something interesting or significant that your analysis revealed, and create a thesis statement (sentence not paragraph) that you can use as the basis for a short (approximately 500 words) analysis of the short story “On the Rainy River”

Think about what applying your chosen literary theory was able to reveal that another literary theory may not have.

Consider how each of the following examples of thesis statement written for the other two passages you read (will attach for you to see) uses a particular theory as the basis for textual analysis

1) In Act III scene iv, Hamlet appears to chastise his mother for being unfaithful to his father, but upon closer examination, it becomes clear that hamlet is anxious about his mother’s power as a sexual being, who does not conform to the stereotypical gender roles expected of mothers.

2) In Act III scene IV, it is clear that Gertrude’s identity is torn between that of the archetypal mother, who wants to nurture and comfort her son, and Hamlet’s representation of her as the archetypal seductress.

3) In “The History Lesson” Jeanette Armstrong illustrates the conflict between the stereotypes about aboriginal peoples and the realities of cultural oppression

Submit your thesis statement for your analysis “On the Rainy River”. Note that you are submitting the one-sentence thesis statement. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE THIS ESSAY.

Below I will attach the short story “On the River” that you are basing your thesis statement on, and the organizer with the ideas you can use to draw your thesis if you would like

I will also attach the readings from the exemplary thesis statements (gertrude, history lesson and hamlet scene) above for you to see how they derived those statements as examples.

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