Sashacampbell

Creative work: my short story adaptation maintains the core themes, characters, and stylistic devices of The Lady of Shalott, whilst reappropriating them for the context of a modern-day psychiatric hospital. The concurrent conflation and separation of Tennyson’s work and my own allows my adaptation to remain simultaneously authentic and recognisable. Critical essay: my essay explores the imagery, themes, meter, and sound of Lord Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott in conjunction with my ...

I provide a 1,500 word meditation on Jean Rhys’s daring and unconventional novel Wide Sargasso Sea. My reflection focuses upon the slow violence of slavery, exploring its insidious impacts upon Antoinette and other white creoles in the text. This essay builds towards the conclusion that the significant delay between slavery and its repercussion on white creoles could easily serve to conceal the causal connection between the two. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys makes this relationship v...