1. Thesis Statements
Homework for Friday:
Trace Shakespeare’s use of one of the following images (blood, sleep, hands, weapons, darkness/night, milk, or birds) and explain the significance of that image.
The prompt asks for images because these do not necessarily symbolize the same thing every time.

2. All thesis statements should include three main components
WHAT
HOW
SO WHAT

3. All thesis statements should include three main components
WHAT
Content of the text
What’s going on? What do you see?

4. All thesis statements should include three main components
HOW
Specific Argument Detail
Literary devices, techniques…
How do you see that What inside? How is it shown to the reader? How does the author do it?

5. All thesis statements should include three main components
SO WHAT
Argument depth
Must be debatable
Must be able to be supported with FACTS/QUOTES
Connection to history, to the work as a whole, to the author’s worldview…
So what? Why does this matter?

6. Example!
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses fire imagery to allude to the myth of Prometheus, demonstrating the unanticipated detriments of enlightenment.

7. Thesis Statements
Homework for Friday:
Trace Shakespeare’s use of one of the following images (blood, sleep, hands, weapons, darkness/night, milk, or birds) and explain the significance of that image.
The prompt asks for images because these do not necessarily symbolize the same thing every time.