The LitCritToolKit
What psychoanalytic significance could this choice of word hold? |
What psychoanalytic significance could the use of 'penetrating' and 'out-door exercise' have? Is the outdoors sexualised in its dangers and physicality? |
If walking and the outdoors are sexualised, what significance could this dislike have? |
Does the use of 'raw' carry sexual meaning? |
What psychoanalytic significance could this statement have? Is it sexualised? |
Does this distant maternal scene imply an emotional absence for the narrator? |
Is wordplay present here with reference to reading's effect on mental state? |
Is the process of reading sexualised here? |
Does this reflect a childlike or sexualised state or a mixture of the two? |
Does the curtain's colour have sexual significance? |
Is the narrator's position sexualised as a symbol of virginity protected, of a hymenal state? What sexual significance does indoors and outdoors hold? |
What sexual significance could the wild outdoors hold here? |
Is this a true statement at this point? Is this a moment of transition between childhood and adulthood, between indoors and outdoors? What role does the book play in bringing the wild outdoors indoors? |
Is this a sexualised depiction of nature? What roles do sea and land play? |
How does this static description contrast to that preceding? Are sex and death being brought together in some way? |
Do these images of aloneness and decay hold psychoanalytic meaning for the narrator? Does the frozen moment of a wreck sinking reflect the text's depiction of the narrator's mental state? |