How does it tie in with the long description of utopia?

FALL 2022: MIDTERM PAPER
Write a 5-page paper  focusing on one of the three topics listed below and using at least two external peer-reviewed sources. The focus of this assignment is to develop an argument, practice close reading, and apply the use of external, secondary sources. In order to do so you may have to contextualize briefly the work as a whole. Then you will analyze key passages you’ve selected looking at their structure, their components, the characters, the plot, and the language. You will cite and you will paraphrase. Remember that close reading involves not only paying attention to what is said, but how it is said; i.e. examining the linguistic and rhetorical means such as metaphors, comparisons, and other rhetorical figures. You might want to start by identifying the key words and phrases that ‘do the work’ in these passages before you go on to explain what work they do and how they do it. It is important not to try to discuss every single detail, or attempt to address every single theme that the passage suggests. Be selective: it is always better to focus on one or two things than to try to exhaust the targeted text. Once you’ve done all this work, work on coming up with your main claim. Remember, the main claim (or thesis statement) of a paper always takes the form of an answer to a question.  
The paper should contain three main parts:  
A brief intro to the work and to the immediate context of the passages you will focus on. This will be your way to concisely contextualize the passage within the work and the genre. The introduction should also include your main claim about the chapter.  (About half a page to one page,  at the most) 
An analysis of the main passages starting small, from sentence structure and word choice, looking at metaphors, comparison, and any other rhetorical devices you might detect. Often times, when you analyze, you are paraphrasing, or saying what the text says but in your own words. As you do that, your aim is to explicate the meaning by paying attention to the formal structure of the passage.  (About 3 pages) 
A conclusion where you discuss larger ideas or problems that the passage elicits. These could be moral dilemmas, reflections, social commentary, etc. (One page) 
You must include at least two secondary peer-reviewed sources to use in any of the previous parts of the paper. You could begin with it, end with it, or cite it when you’re analyzing the chapter: bring it up wherever you see that it works better to support your argument. Look on jstor, Project Muse, Google Scholar, or the FSU Library website.
Important: Add a Cover Page with your Name, Title of the paper.  At the end include the Bibliography you used.  
The paper should be in a Word Document, Times New Roman or Cambria 12, double spaced, and it should have a title.
It is due on Friday, October 28th, by 11:59pm SHARP, via email to me.  
Now choose ONE from the following three topics: 
1. Analyze the problem of the death penalty as presented in Book 1 of Thomas More’s Utopia. Why is it so important for More? How does it tie in with the long description of Utopia? Considering the fact that the USA is the only western democracy that still practices capital punishment, your secondary source could be an article pertaining death penalty in the USA (either its history, its current state).
2. Choose any two sonnets that we’ve read this term, compare and contrast them, read them closely, and look for major themes in them. It can be Petrarch and Wyatt, Petrarch and Ronsard, or Du Bellay, Shakespeare, Donne, or Sidney.
3. Free topic. Centered, of course, on one or more of the readings for this class.