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The tight curls of natural African hair are deemed somehow inferior to the long, straight locks of white American women. The narrator has to book a very long appointment to have her hair extensions and intri...

Iago's character is one that is built on the concept of deception. Whilst the audience is aware of his falsehoods, the characters he interacts with during the play are unaware, and therefore the audience has...

Dickens portrays both love and class, not only as prominent themes in Great Expectations but as two forces acting in opposition. Dickens shows this predominantly through the characterisation of Pip. Pip’s ro...

It is easy to view Hamlet’s mother Gertrude as ‘severely flawed’ due to the fact that she has married her late husband’s brother not two months after his death. This flaw manifests itself, as Rebecca Smith a...

Written in 1950, Gormenghast by Marvyn Peake can be considered a modern Gothic text coming centauries after the birth of the Gothic genre and decades after the Victorian rival. Throughout this passage, the w...