okay so I've been trying to start this paper for a couple of days and I really want to just get it started today but I have no idea where to start. I think I just need help breaking down the assignment because I just have no idea where to start and I want to do very well.
OK.
ReplyDeleteDeep breath.
Start off with thinking how to finish this sentence...
The most uncanny thing about Turn of the Screw is....
Does that help?
Kind of but not exactly
ReplyDeleteOk try this:
ReplyDeleteFreud argues that the Uncanny is about the return of the repressed...begin by explaining that and how its connected to home/family
Then detail everything you can find in Turn of The Screw that is a manifestation of the return of the repressed. Do you remember when I mentioned in class that Jessel and Quint could be thought of as figures of the return of the repressed? (They've returned as ghosts, they can't ever be spoken of or acknowledged and they represent those things the Victorians were deeply disturbed by: the breaking of sexual and class codes...)