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This is the final day before rough draft hand in. I have tons to bash out then edit, before I wave it in front of my main lecturer (who is a lovely lady, but because of her position of Top Noodle,is tough to please academically).

Heads down - let's play bingo-go-go.

16:12
well, it didn't go according to plan. I have shuffled around a few bit - but to be honest I am so damn tired, I can't think straight. I think I have over done it, to be frank. I slept many hours last night, but I am staring at the screen and just now want to crash. I am done with this - 2,033 words, be damned. it's a rough draft and i now feel rough.

( Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl )

Current Music: Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl

Original Artist - B-trndl at Deviant Art

I chose Bluebeard as I was interested as to the monster archetypes in fairy tales. Most of them seemed to be lumbering, or plain ugly - but Bluebeard seemed to be generally frightening. I have 2,500 words to find between now and next Monday re the first half of the diss. It will be comprised of Perrault/Brothers Grimm (albeit briefly)/Le Fanu and Charlotte Bronte. This could be a HUGE project, but I have to pare it down to the bare minimum. It will have Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber in it at some point too.

Yesterday and today, I have spent making notes on the Perrault/Le Fanu one and tomorrow, I will have to start writing. In between, I will be doing the IAS PP too.

( The Bloody Chamber - Warning NSFW )

I mislaid Fahrenheit 451, so I have read Wide Sargasso Sea. Bewitching book - I thought as I wasn't a Jane Eyre fan, that this would fall flat for me. Au contraire - Jean Rhys' descriptions conjure not only the Jamaican landscape, but the decline of the western colonial rule and the tensions between the indigenous population and the white Creole. Displaced and conflicted, the culture has an impact upon the already-established fragility of Antoinette's family and their weakened mental state. It is told in three parts via Antoinette, her new, unnamed husband (who is presumed to be Rochester) and the eventual return to England.

It is but an imagined prequel; it could be argued that Bronte's Jane Eyre is a Gothic novel, the Wide Sargasso Sea could be seen as a post modern portrayal of a much-maligned woman's life from a wholly different angle. Countless Literary Theory documents have been written about this, mostly fem-lib, but it is an interesting plot twist on an old story. Well worth the read - I will resume Fahrenheit 451 (recently reclaimed from a pile of office junk).

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Rev Tone - Love Movement

I am trying to add some added comparisons to this TH2 Monster. I have used Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper and Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House, but only in passing as I have just Too Much To Right About, Not Enough Space and I have to Pare Back As It is. Right now, I can truly identify with Perkin Gilman's character going slowly mental because she is confined to barracks. Also I have had to fight off migraine, great, so I am avoiding chocolate and coffee today :-/

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper -------> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House -----------------------------------> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2542/2542-h/2542-h.htm

Alas, if I don't get this sorted by midday Thursday, I will kick it to the kerb. It is meant to be a Gothic novel and right up my street, but I don't warm to the characters, nor am a keen feminist. Just not into it.

15:44
I have come to the conclusion that I will never get this right, so I am just going to pare back on the words. I have to lose 177 words (bringing the essay down to 2,200 - or 2,000 with 10% margin) and just resubmit, knowing that at my present level of education, I cannot significantly turn this around without starting from scratch and even then, I do not have the guarantee that I can do it. My mistake was not annotating the text in the first place, plus not having an interest in either subject does hamper one. So, mission ::: lose the wordage. I am not going to burn myself out on an assignment that I cannot significantly turn round in time - over and out.

20:18
It is done. Tomorrow is the sticky political essay IN3 (which I didn't totally cock up, but will need a rethink).

Current Mood: migraine
Current Music: Silence

Currently trying to understand my essay planner from yesterday. I am glad to say I am not the only one floundering with only days to go. I am reliably informed that a second year (who so kindly helped me yesterday when it came to sorting out my essay) had to do this mid mini dissertation just recently and 5,000 words is a lot to turn round. I also heard that one of my former Access class mates is trying to write about the evolutionary theory of sleep and asked if I wanted to swap.

LOL - funnily enough, I had the old A Level Psychology about from my Brave New World/Psychoanalytical theory a few days back. Smart ass here quoted chapter and verse. I should drop the book over to him, but haven't got the time. Right now it's back to the drawing board with 6 days to go.

Oh and it would've been my father's 71st birthday today - happy birthday Dad xxx

13:37
This essay is a mess - not a disaster but carnage has been wrought. I am in an anarchistic mood today so Beastie Boys 'Sabotage' is under the cut

( Beastie Boys - Sabotage )

16:16
Goddamn it - I've written myself into a cul-de-sac AGAIN!! Hatehatehate this theory and this book. What is Theory? It's a bucket of suck!!!!

19:04
Some progress made. I think Rochester is a nightmare, an over-grown baby whose propensity for righteous denial is only matched by the fact that he can't keep it in his pants. Bah! I'm off to read Wild Sargasso Sea.

EDIT::: Well, I have tidied up a bit, but I am 500 words over and the restructuring has only helped a bit. I am hoping to look at this with fresher eyes tomorrow. The tension in this house is at record levels - Hubby was saying that even if we are there for each other and we know what the other is going through, it doesn't help that we are going through our own crap at the same time. No rows, no sulking, just one stomps off to the garden and the other goes to the supermarket.

Not good - alas, unavoidable.

Also, a close friend called to say that my former family home had a kitchen fire earlier on this evening. It is truly horrible watching the fire brigade going in and out of my mother's old house. Everyone is ok though, that's the main thing.

Current Mood: okish
Current Music: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Bank Holiday Monday and it has been lashing down all day. My car has not moved all week, because the hoses have split again and I cannot see the mechanic til Thursday. This always seems to happen when I have a particularly shitty piece of work to do. Right now it is just as well that I don't have transport, because I would make a bolt for the door and possibly not come back. Hubby is in a similar position - he is revising for his exam due 8 days after my final submit. He has ground to a halt because nothing read has sunk in today.

I am looking at TH2 Jane Eyre/Feminist Theory and the essay is awash with the main lecturer's scrawling. It's a mess and I am in despair - it stands at 59% and I really want to shove it over 65%. Would be really happy with an upper second, if possible. Lit Theory is NOT for the faint-hearted. I have printed off the OWL Purdue checklist re Fem Theory and have stuck it to the side of the computer. Right now, nothing is sticking for me either. Am going to add main lecturer's notes to the new essay and somehow find a way through.

15:37
When you have a partner who is in the same boat, it does reap some rewards. You both know how the other is feeling, both climbing the wall, both supportive etc. What DOESN'T work is if one (me) is trying to soldier away and the other (he) is wandering aimlessly around, wanting to chat because they are bored. Being the loving Wifey that I am, I have dragged him into the 21st century and suggests he listens to podcasts from the accredited site. As I am the only one with speakers, we had a miniature growly face-off, where he suggested frisking the PC for MY set. No sunshine, that's NOT how it works. I have now sent him out to get a new set of speakers with an still-in-date Argos card. Hopefully it will do the job :-)

17:27
Cross-eyed and reading Gilbert and Gubar. There is a thin line between high brow and turgid - I am sorry Bronte aficionados, I am not a fan.

22:17
I managed to replan my assignment by printing off the rough draft and seeing parallels that I hadn't seen before. Feeling much better and am off to watch V for Vendetta. Not that I am interested in Dystopia at all :-DDDDD

Current Mood: stir-fricken'-crazy
Current Music: Max Sedgeley - Down Slowly

TH2: I noticed something with Jane Eyre - a load of folk tales/parables etc. Archetypes. I can at least see Cinderella, Oedipus, The Little Match Girl, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard etc., even biblical - her own personal 'wilderness' after leaving Thornfield (no spoilers, but see chapter 28). This could have Psychoanalytical Theory written all over it !! Squeeeeeeek !! I told my lecturer - who wants me to get out of that comfort zone and head straight back to Feminist Theory...

*mumble grumble crumble*

But...I can do Jane Eyre/Psychoanalytical Theory for my thesis next academic year. Oh wow - I think I could go miles with this. Downside ::: I will have to absolutely drown myself in everything about Eyre/Bronte, not to mention REALLY get to grips with Psychoanalytical Theory. I also realise that some of the Gilbert and Gubar book covers the Archetypal Fairy Tale stuff. Anyway, I can use and cite some of the stuff from G&G PLUS reintroduce myself to Jung.

I gather that this will be what my summer break will be about :-)

Current Mood: okay

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Entries tagged with charlotte bronte

Bluebeard Mini Dissertation Part One - Day 6

Bluebeard Mini Dissertation Part One - The Prologue

Wide Sargasso Sea

Redrafting - Day 9

Redrafting - Day 8

Redrafting - Day 7

Endless Possibilities