AP English 12 / Ms. Cecelia Research Topic List Students must select two works and create a literary link between those works. The link may be thematic or stylistic. The USCHS Library contains critical research on all of the works of literature on this list. This list is certainly not exhaustive, and if students want to create a link between any other works of literature, they are encouraged to present their ideas to the teacher for approval. This is the updated version of this list for the 2009-2010 school year. Some general guidelines for selecting a research topic follow: Choose works of literary merit. Choose works with a valid connection (thematic or stylistic) for comparison and contrast. 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe 2. Paradise Lost – John Milton and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe 3. Paradise Lost – John Milton and Macbeth – William Shakespeare 4. Macbeth – William Shakespeare and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe 5. Paradise Lost – John Milton and Samson Agonistes - John Milton 6. Hamlet – William Shakespeare and The Spanish Tragedy – Thomas Kyd 7. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde and She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith 8. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde and The Way of the World – William Congreve 9. She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith and The Way of the World – William Congreve 10. Six Characters in Search of an Author – Luigi Pirandello and Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett 11. Six Characters in Search of an Author – Luigi Pirandello and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard 12. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard 13. The Playboy of the Western World – J.M. Synge and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee 14. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee 15. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe and Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 16. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce 17. Brave New World – Adolus Huxley and Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 18. Slaughterhouse House Five – Kurt Vonnegut and Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 19. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe and Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 20. Ceremony – Leslie Silko and Solar Storms – Linda Hogan 21. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen and The Awakening – Kate Chopin TURN THE PAGE OVER NOW. 22. Paradise Lost – John Milton and Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 23. The Awakening – Kate Chopin and Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 24. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert and A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen 25. Ceremony – Leslie Silko and Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 26. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys and Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 27. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert and Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen 28. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee and Look Back in Anger – John Osborne 29. Look Back in Anger – John Osborne and Hamlet – William Shakespeare 30. The Color Purple – Alice Walker and Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston 33. Wide Sargasso Sea –Jean Rhys and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard 34. Our Town – Thornton Wilder and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce 35. Oedipus the King – Sophocles and The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 36. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 37. The Color Purple – Alice Walker and Beloved – Toni Morrison 38. Solar Storms – Linda Hogan and Beloved – Toni Morrison 39. Oedipus the King – Sophocles and Macbeth – William Shakespeare 40. The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy and The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka 41. Dubliners – James Joyce and The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka 42. Dubliners – James Joyce and The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy 43. Brave New World – Adolus Huxley and 1984 – George Orwell 44. Oedipus the King –Sophocles and Hamlet – William Shakespeare 45. Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen and Miss Julie – August Strindberg 46. Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles and Samson Agonistes – John Milton 47. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 48. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte and Persuasion – Jane Austen 49. Persuasion – Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 50. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte and Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 51. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer and Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 52. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 53. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte and Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy .