ASSIGNMENT ON Piers Plowman - Prolog and Books One through Three

Please read these selections. Then, pick one book. Read it carefully again.

Discuss the conflict in that book. Try not to summarize it, but instead try to analyze it.

You may discuss the social criticism; or, the "ideology" or values set forth by the Narrator in your passage; or, you may want to relate your passage to social or economic change.

Whatever you do, try not to generalize too much. Rather, be as specific as you can in analyzing parts of the book. Cite a few examples to illustrate your analysis.

Please make sure to:

1. Print out and bring in the pages to class. These are PDF pages 447-464 of The Literature of Medieval England.
2. Read, carefully, the notes and introduction. They are very important!

Please email your assighment to me. 300 words in length.