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Duffy also presents the fragility of love through her choice of form. ‘You’ is a Shakespearean sonnet, comprised of four quatrains and a rhyming couplet, which is a traditional poetic choice when presenti...

Shakespeare treats knowledge as a superficial and frail concept that, despite humanity’s innate desire to acquire it, is the cause of self-damnation and destruction.  This can be seen in Shakespeare’s pre...

    In the extract, the Creature contemplates on the DeLacey family and reveals much about his attitudes towards humanity. Shelley writes that the Creature “saw no reason for their unhappiness” but that h...

DansDon Juande Molière, etPhèdrede Racine, les dénouements sont liés logiquement aux rapports de force ou viennent surprendre le public. L’œuvre de Racine est écrite en accord avec les r...

In his essay ‘The World and the Jug’, Ralph Ellison asserts, ‘being a Negro American involves a willed (who wills to be a Negro? I do!) affirmation of self against all outside pressure.’ This resistance s...