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What are examiners looking for in my essay's?

The amazing thing about English Literature is your freedom to take the essay in any individual direction you want, especially in A level. Examiners will be looking for individual analysis and interpretation ...
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What is the significance the paper lantern in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?

Williams employs plastic theatre as a means of giving physical onstage presence to abstract concepts in order to better clarify for the audience their meaning and significance within 'A Streetcar Named Desir...
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How do I do a close reading of a poem?

Relevant for both GCSE and A Level: Every student will have a different way of doing a close reading of a poem. What is important is that a student finds a style with which they are comfortable and confident...
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Compare the way in which love is presented in Shakespeare's Sonnet 23 and Othello.

Sonnet 23 depicts a love that paralyses. The lover is compared to an actor who forgot his lines due to his fear and nervousness and loses his mastery of his role, also known as his ‘part’, implying that the ...
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'A play in which thought often gets in the way of action'. How much do you agree with this assessment of Hamlet?

The three main points that could be made of this statement are: Hamlet himself is not a man of action, unlike many of Shakespeare's leading men. He spends much of the play brooding and plotting rather than f...
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