For my final project, I think I have finally decided on utilizing my second close reading essay and expanding on the themes and ideas of complicity that exist throughout the novel. My argument is going to revolve around the way in which Melville presents complicity through the characters and how he uses it in a way that is so representative of the complicity that resides within the American population.
At the moment, I think I am going to just be writing a 6 – 8 page essay, however, I really do want to do something creative so if inspiration hits me that might completely change.
Sounds good, but I hope you will push this “‘ revolve around the way in which Melville presents complicity through the characters and how he uses it in a way that is so representative of the complicity that resides within the American population” to a clear and debatable claim about what the novel shows/says about complicity. And, what do you mean by complicity? And which American population?