I Do Love The Paper Topics Though
You'd think before I decided to be an English major I would have considered how much I hate writing papers. Gaaaaaaah.
I had half my paper on child brides planned out before I realized I couldn't (intellectually, it's still a prompt) write about that, so now I'm writing about the link between visuality and sexuality in Rosetti's Jenny. And I am in that terrible place where I know everything I want to write about (the speaker's role as a voyeur which reduces Jenny to a passive sexual object, the observation of her physical observed beauty as a commodity, and her sexuality being problematic because it occurs in the public, visible sphere), but no idea how to tie it into a coherent thesis. FAIL.
I had half my paper on child brides planned out before I realized I couldn't (intellectually, it's still a prompt) write about that, so now I'm writing about the link between visuality and sexuality in Rosetti's Jenny. And I am in that terrible place where I know everything I want to write about (the speaker's role as a voyeur which reduces Jenny to a passive sexual object, the observation of her physical observed beauty as a commodity, and her sexuality being problematic because it occurs in the public, visible sphere), but no idea how to tie it into a coherent thesis. FAIL.