Final Project Ideas

After reading through the Intertextuality Final Project guidelines, I will speak with honesty and say I am stressed about finding a topic. I sometimes struggle with project like this that have such broad guidelines and so many possible paths to take to end up with a final product. However, the project seems interesting, so I hope to find a topic that is both interesting to me and fulfilling of the project requirements. So, diving into that, I'm currently considering a few potential topic ideas. I'm interested in learning more about texts, like Home Fire, which focus on international disputes between countries and the Middle East, specifically through the lens of Muslim individuals living in non-muslim countries. Another topic I think sounds really cool is learning more about where the genre of ancient tragedies come from. I feel like I've grown up reading tragedies in school, but never learning about their history, why they're so popular, and why so many of them have withstood the test of time. The first tragedy that comes to mind is Romeo and Juliet. I would love to learn more about what prompted the first authors of tragedies to write about topics as sad as lovers who both end up dying. And building off of that, why readers want to read stories about that. Tragedies make up such an extensive genre in literature, and I hope to learn more about how that came to be and when the first wave of tragedies was. In summary, I'm leaning towards learning about tragedies and hope to include Romeo and Juliet in this comparison. I think the topic idea related to Home Fire seems informative, but tragedies seem more aligned with my interests regarding this project.