| Comment | To me your title is only a topic, not a thesis.
A topic is like an assignment, a defining of the limits of the subject matter. Essentially, you are saying only 'I'm going to write about X.' But you don't give us any idea why you have made that choice, or what you can say about it that we don't already know.
A thesis tells what you have to say about the topic. Why are the conflicts important? What do they tell us about how to read the work, why it is important in literature, what relation it has to history then or now? What can you teach readers about the work that they might not otherwise notice, that other critics have not already mentioned -- and in particular, that's not already in any general factual summary, like an encyclopedia?
Or as one professor used to put it, 'So what?' Why should anyone care? How can you convince us to want to read your paper? Why is it interesting?
That's what you have to make clear not only in the title, but in the thesis sentence, thesis paragraph, and throughout the paper.
As it stands, the only idea of yours I can see is the word 'conflict,' but it's not even clear what that involves. Conflict between the narrator and other characters? Conflict between classical and medieval values or worldviews? Conflict between the epic and the romance (which doesn't necessarily map 1:1 onto classical/medieval)? All of the above?
You probably know the answer already, but since your readers don't, you need to let them know at the beginning, not make them read to the end to find out. (-: |
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