Critical Response Essay #2 Choose ONE of the following options or branch out. Read carefully. See other essay requirements below: Option A After reading both Conrad and Achebe, do feel that Conrad’s work Heart of Darkness portray the European as a savior or a destroyer of native Africans? Option B Please consider the behavior of Ms. Ranyevsaya in Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. Does she display any interesting behaviors that a reader might argue is an indicator of psychological trauma? Option C Using Marxist literary criticism please consider the class roles of some of the characters in The Cherry Orchard. Option D In Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King none of the colonists suspect that Olunde will sacrifice his life to fulfill his father’s obligation. Instead, they assume that he will behave just like them since he was educated in the West. How do Olunde’s actions fulfill or complicate the conflict between nature and culture? Option E Compare Pablo Neruda’s “I’m Explaining a Few Things” with Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. In what ways do these two different works treat the same topic: the horror of war? Essay Requirements 1000 words. MLA format — you are required to learn and implement MLA properly, including a complete and correct heading on the upper left hand corner of the paper, proper headers with page numbering in the upper left hand corner of each page, correct line spacing, proper formatting of text titles, etc. Include a Works Cited page for the primary texts you’re using. Essay Title. Thesis, topic sentences, full development of ideas, including with plenty of illustrations (quoted, paraphrased and summarized) from the texts. No secondary sources. College-level vocabulary. Standard English grammar. Incorporation of appropriate terminology (see the Modules and all the readings). For example, if it’s a poem, then the person who wrote it is called a poet; if it’s a play, then the person who wrote it is a playwright. Consult the essay grading rubric. A paper that clearly has not been proofread or written seriously is not acceptable.