CRITICAL ESSAY In her novel, "I'm the king of the castle", Susan Hill conveys the themes of imprisonment and escape through a number of key incidents, symbolism and using the relationship between characters. Being trapped can to some people be a very traumatic experience. The sheer claustrophobia of it all can be extremely scarring. In this essay many forms of entrapment will be put forth but also many forms of escape. One of the key …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…pushed him and deliberately tried to injure him. After weeks of constant bullying, Kingshaw is so stressed that he commits suicide. This is what you could call his ultimate escape. He wakes up one morning, retraces his steps to the clearing in Hang Wood with the lake and drowns himself. The entire book is completely riddled with hidden symbolism and situations of imprisonment and escape which makes it ideal for critical essays and class discussions.