Geraldine Brooks’s March book report

Geraldine Brooks’s March

March Paper Assignment

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For this paper assignment, we will examine the impractical and radical idealisms of Mr. March(or another character from March such as Canning, Clement, Mrs. March, Grace, Thoreau and others) in Geraldine Brooks’sMarch. In reading the novel, consider how March shapes his idealism, how he carries his idealism with him, and how he puts it into action. Examine the consequence of his idealism and how it was seen in his own time.Furthermore, you should reflect on how your idealism influences or shapes your own actions.

Examine what makes this belief or idea a form of idealism. How does it mirror the writings of the time? How does Mr. March represent radical thought and what is he up against in putting it in action? What difference does this idealism make in the world and how do we judge his idealism? How does he live with the consequence of his idealism? Does he compromise his idealism? Is his idealism challenged or conquered?  As you read the novel, mark pages and passages that correspond to different idealisms. Trace or connect the idealisms through the novel. Come up with an argument that shows how this idealism is an important aspect of Mr. March’s development as a character.

What compromises does Mr. March make and what is the outcome of his idealism. Is he a failed idealist, an impractical idealist, a radical idealist?Does his idealism make him a heroic or comic figure? Does his idealism live on and continue to shape the world today?

If possible and if it helps flesh out your understanding of the idealism, I want you to bring in a secondary source to help understand the idealism in its own time. This could be a reference or a passage from Bronson Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, John Brown, or some other figure that grounds March’s idealism in the culture of 19^th century America. This secondary source may seem on the surface to be the most difficult portion of the paper, but I will direct you to several sources you can use. On the Blackboard March Unit II folder, I have included many links to 19^th century texts and sources.

We will examine how his idealism informs the novel through this unit by examining other writers of the nineteenth century.

Here are some of the idealisms in March(You are not limited to these):

Womanhood—female beauty

Marriage

Manhood

Education of contraband slaves
Women’s education

Abolitionism

Nature

Veganism

Work/industry

Religion or religious faith

Individualism/non conformity

Format:

This is a thesis-driven literary argument paper in standard form—introduction, essay body (with several paragraphs), and conclusion. Your paper needs to makean argument and be guided by a thesis. Use MLA format to cite short quotations.

Page Range:

The paper should be between 2½ and 3½ typed, double-spaced pages. Submit this paper through Safe Assign—submit this essay through Blackboard and through the Safe Assign icon entitled March Essay I: Idealism. You will need to upload the document as a Word file. Contact the COLT support staff if you have difficulty submitting the assignment.