Edexcel AS coursework - Entrapment - prose fiction
Physical imprisonment
mentally trapped - through fear
loony bin
domestic hell
political imprisonment
motifs - rape or fear or rape, confined spaces? tyrants?
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A dark and disturbing contemporary novel in which the protagonist, working class lottery winner, Clegg, uses his new found wealth and power to kidnap or 'collect' a beautiful upperclass girl, Miranda, and confine her a windowless basement. |
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Style/structure: prose, dual narrative, rich in intertextual allusions particularly to Shakespeare's The Tempest. |
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Themes: class conflict, entrapment, obsession, power, sex, culture |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Untouchable by Mulk Anand (
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The Woman Who Walked into Doors
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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