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How does Mary Shelly utilise the Gothic in her novel Frankenstein?

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 ove...
AH
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How would you answer this question: Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present the effects of social convention on characters

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 particularl...
AJ
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How is Piggy presented as a sympathetic character in Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

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 read...
AB
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What is the best way to approach and structure essays for Shakespeare, prose and drama and why?

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 scheme r...
TD
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How would you begin to answer the question "Compare the ways poets present ideas about death in ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’."

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 qui...
KH
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