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First of all, let's look at how many female characters there are in Shakespeare's tragedy; two. This is a play governed by men. Both Ophelia and Gertrude say very little, which adds to the overwhelming se...

This question is asking you to focus on a particular character within an extract from a novel or a play. As you are looking at just an extract and not the whole text, you need to be specific in your analy...

When an unseen poem is presented to you in an exam, one of two things will happen. Either, a message or meaning of the poem will appear to jump out of the page at you, or, you will think – help! I have no...

For the set texts portion of your exam what you really want to be doing is making sure that you know the key themes and ideas in your set texts, how these themes do or do not change throughout the text, a...

Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is set in the Alabama town of Maycomb in 1936, 40 years after the Supreme Court's notorious declaration of white and black races being 'separate but equal'. The 'sepa...