Madness in Literature and Film

Madness in Literature and Film

Coursework Essay Questions

As you start to prepare your coursework essay, please read the following information.

Deadline: Tuesday 31^st March 2020 (Week 11)

– Coursework essay word limit: 1,500 words. Aim to write as close as possible to this word limit, no more than 10% over or under 1,500.

– The essay questions cover the texts and films discussed in weeks 3 to 10.

– Note that all the texts and films on the module will be covered on the exam paper at the end of term.

– Remember that the text, or film that you write about for your coursework essay cannot be covered again in the exam.

– Try to think about the text/film choices that you wish to make for the exam when you select your coursework essay question.

– Before you write your essay, please read the Essay Referencing Guidelines document posted on.

Please write an essay in response to ONE of the following questions.

1. ‘Creeping deeper into madness, the narrator finds a way out of patriarchy and its confines’. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Develop your answer in response to your reading of The Yellow Wallpaper.

2. Explore the relationship between madness and the supernatural in The Turn of the Screw.

3. Explore narrative and visual representation of the relationship between madness and war in Apocalypse Now.

4. Examine the intersection between TWO of the following subjects in Wide Sargasso Sea: madness, femininity, displacement, colonialism.

5. ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest presents a world that prevents revolt by labelling iconoclasts as mad’. Discuss the film in the light of this statement.

6. Examine the intersection between TWO of the following subjects in Shutter Island: constructed realities; memory; repression; the institution.

1. ‘The Bell Jar offers a portrayal of madness as a gradual detachment from a patriarchal society that promotes conformity and supresses individual identity’. Explore the novel in the light of this statement.