Please Help... Novel and Play??

[kman]

Hey,

I am preparing to do my independent study and it requires that I select a novel and a play. I believe the final essay asks to compare the two works in terms of tragedy of the central characters.

My question is.. has anyone read a novel and play that are similar in theme and plot, which would be quite easy to compare the two in an essay?? I'm looking for a fairly simple book as I am only in highschool. Any responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kris.

[Shea]

The play is kind of new I think, Dear Ester , but I can't remember who the playwrite was. It made me think of the book Night by Elie Weisel. All about the holocaust, so sad! I cried during both.

[Stanislaw]

I would suggest the Play Hamlet by william shakespear, and the novel, The Wars by Timothy Findley. It is a bit of a stretch but once you read both of them at the same time, it is esier to make connections between the two works.

[kman]

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[IWilKikU]

The Stranger or The Outsider (depends on translation) by Albert Camus/ one of Sartre's plays. The Stranger is a really easy read, yet still really deep. Its a very bleak existential outlook on life, while Sartre is the father of Existentialism and a reputed playwrite. Has anyone read any of his plays? Recomendations of Sartre?