When thinking about your topic, we encourage you to establish comparisons between cultures.  In addition you should be looking at how ``coercion," ``consumption," and ``colonialism" relate to the following:

The ``other" as monster

Notions of brotherhood

Family, community, nation

Women as property

Women as vessel

Women and chaos

Violence and sex

Houses, castles, homes, and claiming space

The need of myth

Creating reality through fiction  (think for example about the ``wag-the-dog effect)

Transgression

Religion and conquest

The symbolism of the objects used to conquer and colonize

Gold

Slavery

Self-justification of the colonizers

Cannibalism

Travel

The body as text

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