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Through the tragic demise of Othello, in the text, Shakespeare illustrates how the internal flaws of the protagonist acts as a catalyst towards chaos and suffering. The hero falls victim to the play's mac...

The Romantics were a group of poets that were a part of the Romantic movement that marked a profound shift in sensibilities from the age of reason approach of Classicism. Looseness of form, nature, mortal...

Like many of his contemporaries, Shakespeare used darkness figuratively to represent evil. In the Jacobean era, morality plays were popular and the symbolism of 'light' as good and 'darkness' as evil was ...

A key thing to remember when writing an English essay is that you need to back up every point you make. This doesn't have to be a hard-and-fast rule but try and think of the structure: Point-->Evidence...

The easiest ways to distinguish yourself with these sorts of questions is to keep your approach entirely thematic, avoiding any sense of chronology or order. It's all too easy to slip into analysing a tex...