A thesis on Monsters Stephen King's Novels.

[barnaba44]

Hello everyone,

I'm writing to you to get advise from you, if you don't mind of course.

I'm third year student, and I'm in American Literature Seminar, it means that my Diploma should be about literature. My topic is "A Psychoanalytical Approach to Monsters in Stephen King's Novels". Saying monsters, I mean i.e. father alcoholic, mentally ill writer's fan or the husband with strang sexual desires. Well, this is my topic, but I can't write the thesis statement. I've already prepared several of them, but my supervisor said that they're to obvious, and he doesn't feel like help me with the thesis. Do you know something about that psychoanalytical approach to literature? The topic is fine. Well, maybe you've got other ideas. Maybe there is something else that could be described. Oh, I almost forget, there can be something about gothic literature, and gothic itself, because that is the Topic of my seminar.


Luke

[hillwalker]

What do you mean by 'thesis statement'?

Are you going to show that Stephen King's portrayal of 'monsters' in particular is based on sound psychoanalytical study?
Or that his victims all have some psychological weakness that the 'monsters' exploit?
Or that he provides his readers with make-believe 'monsters' in order to help them combat certain primeval fears?
Or that his inhuman 'monsters' are actually thinly disguised stereotypes of commonplace human conditions?

Your topic sounds interesting, but you don't give me the impression of having the faintest idea of what it even means let alone how you can explore it further.

. . .there can be something about gothic literature, and gothic itself, because that is the Topic of my seminar.

Wow, you sound confused.

H