Choose one of the following minor characters from the second and third novels in the course, and write an essay analysing his/her significance.

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Analyses of Miss Jessel’s significance in The Turn of the Screw.

Length: min. 3 double–spaced pages (firm)

Choose one of the following minor characters from the second and third novels in the course, and write an essay analysing his/her significance.

  • Remember that your essay must follow the conventions of English essays and use MLA Format.
  • If you choose to use a source, ensure that it is both reputable and scholarly, and
    cautiously document all borrowed quotations, arguments, and ideas with parenthetical citations and Works Cited entries.
  • See the syllabus for instructions on how to submit your essay.

1. Dunstan Cass in Eliot’s Silas Marner

2. Nancy Lammeter in Eliot’s Silas Marner

3. Miss Jessel in James’s The Turn of the Screw

4. Douglas, who tells the governess’s tale, in James’s The Turn of the Screw