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Faustus could be perceived as a Gothic victim because he could be interpreted as a victim of himself; of his own ambitions and obsessions. The driving force for his act of selling his soul is to enhance h...

There are many ways to revise and it depends on the type of learner you are. Personally, for my A-level English exams, I used revision cards with multiple quotes from the various books I studied and kept ...

The gothic genre was essentially the guilty pleasure reading of its day. Victorian society was constrained by the ideals of modesty and decorum, with a good deal of religious piety. Gothic writers rebelle...

Firstly, read through the text carefully and try to get your bearings within it. Ask yourself some basic questions to begin: what kind of text is this? Is it prose, poetry, a newspaper article? Who is spe...

English is quite different from most other subjects in that it is heavily source-based, both in one's understanding but also in the simple components to a question. I will separate this explanation into t...