Myth Paper

You are writing a Research Paper. For the final paper, you will analyze and draw conclusions from an ancient myth called “Alcyone and Ceyx”( YOU ALREADY WROTE A PROPOSAL FOR THIS PAPER FOR ME AND OTHER WRITER WROTE AN OUTLINE FOR THIS PAPER FOR ME.) I ATTACHED BOTH THE PROPOSAL AND THE OUTLINE  SO YOU COULD REVIEW THEM. PLEASE, USE THE SAME SOURCES THAT THE YOU INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSAL.

THE GUIDLINES FOR THE PAPER:
Your paper should have three general sections:  1. Retelling of the Story and Culture; 2. Analysis; and 3. Conclusions.

In the first section, you should retell the story, summarizing major characters and plot points.  This should take no more than one page.  If you are referencing a written work, you may include citations or quotes from that work.

Next, describe the culture that produced this work.  Where do these people live? What language do they speak? What is their recent history? What are the cultures values, norms and taboos?  Take a page to make us familiar with the assumed authors and audience of your myth.  Again this will take about a page.

In the Analysis section, you must choose a method to break down the story.  The approach you take is completely up to you, although you may find that following the lead of writers you find in your research to be helpful.  You may want to try Structuralism, as in Propps examination of episodes, function and sequence, or Levi-Strausss functional oppositions. Post-Structuralism may also be useful to you–analyze the connections between history and knowledge in the culture and the content of the story.  Finally, you may find a narrativist approach useful.  Is there a master narrative present?  How does the audience interact with the story and what does the story do or provide for them? (THE OTHER WRITER ALREADY USED THE LEVI-STRAUSS APPROACH IN THE OUTLINE SO PLEASE STICK TO THAT, READ THE OUTLINE SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT).

Depending on your approach, the analysis section could take between 1 and 3 pages.

Finally, based on your analysis, what conclusions can you draw? What new understandings do you have about the story or culture?  Again, this may vary, but will probably take 1-2 pages.

In your paper, you should also include description of the research decisions you make along the way (examples: why you chose the questions you did, how you decided the expert opinions you chose were expert-qualifications)