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In the play 'Hamlet', the main father-son bond we become enthralled in is that of Hamlet and his father. Unmistakably, their bond is powerful; it is this bond which led to Hamlet's plot for revenge. In order...

While it is difficult to characterise Hamlet as a comedy from a modern perspective, Hamlet is comedic mostly through the use of dark humour. We must of course bear in mind that Hamlet was written in 1609,, a...

The women in Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ are presented with the duality of women oppressed by a patriarchal society. Firstly, reflecting Shakespeare’s Elizabethan society, the Venetian hierarchy within the play ...

Angela Carter subverts characters from an easily-recognisable genre: the damsel in distress and the Prince Charming. While at first these characters conform into these archetypes (a conventional stock charac...

A well structured essay opens with the author's intention; in the first paragraph, you outline what the following essay is about. For example, when comparing two poems, the opening paragraph will mention bot...