Humanities Homework Help

Prompt

analyze a work of art and conduct research of at least three credible sources to establish the context for the work, noting its period of creation and the characteristic values, concerns, or thematic interests of the period.

Purpose

To connect what we’ve been learning about art to its role in studying the humanities, answering the question How does the work help us to understand something about the experience of being human?

Instructions

Choose your own film, drama (a specific performance of a written form of drama), poem/novel/short story, or piece of music.

Identify the author/creator, the title of the work, and its initial publication date. If the work is an adaptation, remake, or performance of original work, give the details here.

Summarize the period of the work, naming it as appropriate to the form of art (e.g. Shirley is an example of British Victorian fiction, despite being set during the Napoleanic Wars). Identify the general characteristics, ideals, and thematic concerns expressive of the period. Be sure to draw from and cite at least three credible (Links to an external site.) sources in this section.

Then, perform two types of criticism: descriptive and interpretive. Each type should have its own section in your paper.

Conclude with your ideas about the value of the specific work as an expression of the study of humanities. How does the work help us to understand something about the experience of being human?