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Shelley uses elements of the Gothic in order to emphasise the intensity of the situation the characters find themselves in. She describes extreme landscapes such as 'immense mountains and precipices that ...

It is important to know your novels really well, so once we have read them and have the story understood completely, we can begin to look at how to answer these sorts of exam questions. This is a particul...

Piggy has no parents. When he and Ralph first meet, Ralph shows a hero-worship of his father, to which PIggy can only respond, 'my dad's dead... and my mum' Golding immediately elicits sympathy from his r...

Although there are several different approaches, I have found that the 'PETAL' structure ( P - point, E - evidence, T - terminology, A - analysis, L - link) demonstrates all the skills that the mark schem...

Both ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘Bayonet Charge’ deal with the topic of death during the first world war, but they present death differently. In ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ death is presented as ...