Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

My thesis will explore how Morrison uses formal techniques to bring the depersonalization many of her characters experience to life for her audience: specifically, nonlinear narrative structure, fragmented sentence structure, and internal dialogue highlight the characters' depersonalization. I will explore this idea through Morrison's novels The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and A Mercy, which feature characters who have experienced extreme traumas and seem to have developed depersonalization as a result.

The context of the source of The Trew Law of Free Monarchies needs to be examined and critically and thoroughly analyzed in order to answer the research question of "in what methods and ways did King James I of England produce ideas of divine right along with absolutist measures?" The central argument of this paper is to prove the position of the post-revisionist interpretation that James I was indeed an absolutist monarch who utilized and referenced the power of religion to support his political ideologies of the monarchy.