I am starting my English Literature coursework and I am stuck on an introduction and I cannot start. This is the question:
By comparing McEwan and Plath’s presentation of female characters how far can it be said that the women, in literature are often shown to conform to contemporary social conventions?
Anybody who could give me tips or an idea on how to start would be really useful. I want to argue that Plath is an 'outsider' and challenges the contemporary view of women and that McEwan was writing decades later and so his representations are shaped by later changes of attitudes.