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Kristen Cote

This section of my portfolio contains a collection of essays from my time as at the University of Western Ontario. Most of these are English Lit essays except for The Desire to be Terrifying which is a women's studies essay.

The Desire to be Terrifying: Pop Culture and the Female Monster

An original and a revised essay about the pop culture fasination and desire of the female monster.

'A Socity of Picked Individuals':

An analysis of the destruction of relationships by heteroerotic desire in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop and Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did

Seeing Death in Shelia Watson's The Double Hook

An analysis on the function of the deities of the Old Testament God, and the Indigenous Coyote to make sense of themes of death and sight in Shelia Watson's The Double Hook.

The Right to Write in Richard Wright's Black Boy

A passage analysis of a scene in Richard Wright's Black Boy arguing that the right to write is as integral to American's as the right to religion.

Reproduction in Virgina Woolf's A Room of One's Own

An analysis of Virgina Woolf's use of reproductive language in A Room of One's Own to describe her theories on creativity and writing.

Meta-theatre and the Role of the Widow in John Webster

An analysis of the theatricality and construction of the widow in the Early Modern Period in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and A Cure For a Cuckold

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