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What is the best way to structure a paragraph within an analytical essay?

There are many ways to structure a paragraph within an essay. Personally, before I start writing the essay, I make sure that I have played out a basic plan of the argument I wish to present. Through this ...

CH
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How do I ensure that I get the top grades in English Literature A-Level, given the relatively subjective marking?

I found that there are a couple of things that helped. Every paragraph that you write must contain at least two quotes from the text. First, you must analyse these quotes linguistically and thematically. ...

SV
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“Desire dazzles and destroys.” Compare the presentation of the destructive power of desire in one poetry and one drama text you have studied.

Both Milton, in ‘Paradise Lost’, and Webster, in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, highlight the destructive nature of desire on those it effects. There are subtle differences in their presentation, with themes suc...

GS
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“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am." How is the theme of ‘coming of age’ presented in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce’s semi-autobiographical bildungsroman published in 1916, follows its hero, Stephen Dedalus, on a twenty year journey from infancy to adulth...

CO
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Analyse the manifestation of exile in The Metamorphosis

The exile in discussion in this essay is not that of geographical exile or deportation but exile of identity, of being out of place, out of time and of another time.Gregor’s exile manifests itself in his ...

HG
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