Assignment Requirements
Answer any one of the following questions by 12pm (midnight) on Wednesday June 25th
Question One
“Police,” he suggested confidently.
“The police aren’t for that,” observed Mrs Verloc, cursorily, hurrying on her way.
“Not for that?” he mumbled, resigned but surprised [...] “What are they for then, Winn? What are they for? Tell me.” (The Secret Agent, Ch. 8)
Compare how any two authors depict the function, method and ethics of government espionage.
Question Two
“There’s but poor comfort in being able to declare that any given act of violence – damaging property or destroying life – is not the work of anarchism at all, but of something else altogether – some species of authorized scoundrelism” (The Assistant Commissioner in The Secret Agent, Ch. 7)
Compare how any two writers depict government espionage as protecting and / or endangering society.
Question Three
“There are certain things I like in this book: for example th