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Violence is an integral theme in Macbeth - indeed, the word ‘blood’ occurs forty-two times throughout the play. The action of the play is a cyclical one; a traitor to the crown is vanquished, those who viola...

English Literature must be one of the hardest subjects to revise. Some subjects such as the Sciences have certain answers in black and white on a mark scheme, so it is easy to revise by yourself, doing and m...

The simple answer to this question is to practice, practice, practice! Find a poetry anthology in your library that you can photocopy, or print out some online poetry (the poetry foundation website has a hug...

Revenge tragedies were popular in Elizabethan theatre for their violent action and on-stage spectacle of bloody justice. Hamlet uses a medieval Danish revenge story as a framework to comment on the internal ...

Character analysis is an essential skill used in all English Literature GCSE exams. The ways that a character is presented in a text, their importance to the overall meaning and their interactions with other...