Assignment:
- Please upload (or embed links to) 3-5 articles/essays (not written by you) on the thematic elements in the play as interpreted or discovered by you. At least 3 of your articles must be discovered from the Bertrand Library Search by Subject site. The psychology section might be a good place to start.
Criteria:
Your grades for Research on Thematic Elements are based on
- How well you followed the instructions and guidelines posted above.
- The originality of your articles, essays and/or reviews.
- The aesthetic presentation of your research. Consider a neat one page bulleted list with embedded links and a corresponding paragraph or two that summarizes some of the more interesting or surprising discoveries made through this research.
Research Questions and Thematic Through-lines of The Nether
Review: “Are There Sex Crimes in a Virtual World? A Red Orchid Struggles with Answer.”: The Chicago Tribune
“There’s a legitimate school of rehabilitative thought that says many sex offenders can’t change their impulses — they only can learn to self-regulate their behavior and understand how consequences for the victims render their own pleasurable expression dangerously immoral. So what, then, to do with the growing possibilities offered by the virtual pornographic landscapes opening up before us at every moment?”
Chris Jones, 2017