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Write a critical appreciation of this extract from 'The Castle of Otranto', relating your discussion to your reading of the Gothic.

The idea of pursuit is explored through the plot in terms of narrative style as well as the progressing sentence structure. Walpole employs the use of an omniscient narrator in order to distance readers from...
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Explore the ways that parent-child relationships are used in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Begin by determining: what are the major parent-child relationships within the text? Student might answer: Hamlet and the Ghost Hamlet and Gertrude Ophelia and Polonius Laertes and Polonius Continue by worki...
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Compare the ways in which the writers of your texts portray the impact of science on social order

‘Frankenstein’ explores how science impacts the lives of individuals, while ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ approaches how science affects society through the lives of a few individuals. Shelley writes about how the monst...
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Explore the characterisation of the three sisters in the opening of the play, ‘King Lear’.

Shakespeare opens King Lear by introducing the audience to the King’s failing health, and his requirement to distribute his wealth and property amongst his three daughters; Cordelia, Goneril and Reagan. The ...
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Examine how Browning presents extreme emotions in ‘My Last Duchess’ and one other poem of your choice.

Comparison of My Last Duchess and The Laboratory. In both his poems, Browning conveys extreme emotion through the use of violent, deathly imagery. In My Last Duchess, "Half-flush that dies along her thr...
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