English 1400
Thematic Approaches to Literature
Essay 2 Guidelines: The Haunting of Hill House essay assignment
In an essay of approximately 1000 words (around 4 pages), chose one of the following three topics:
1) Use Emily Dickenson’s poem “Time and Eternity” to explain how the setting of Hill House functions.
– for this essay the novel Hill House must be your focus. The poem serves as an interpretative way in to understanding the novel. -this is a compare/contrast essay.
2) Use Freud’s theory of repetition and mastery to explain Eleanor’s relationship with her mother.
– once again, the novel must be your point of focus. The excerpt from Freud’s essay to help you to interpret the novel.
3) Explain how the Library represents the death-drive for Eleanor. For this you might want to refer to an excerpt of Freud’s essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principal.”
– the focus of your essay must, you guessed it, be on the novel, not on Freud’s essay.
For any of these topics you MUST close read the text. Interpret it. Explain what it means without attributing to it a moral of the story.
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