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Context: Curley's wife is the only woman on the ranch, she is alone in a mans world. Immediately this marks her out to us, as contextually she would have no power or stat...

The play-within-a-play highlights the feeling of paranoia built up throughout Hamlet. In performance, it makes the audience highly aware of their perspective as witnesses to both truth and lies. The whole...

Language: To analyse language we analyse the poet's choice and use of lexis. It's helpful to ask: What connotations does a word carry and why might the poet have chosen to use this specific word? What lan...

First, it would be helpful to make a brief plan (10 minutes), that outlines your points (4 or 5 points). Things to think about are narrative style, dialogue, themes, motifs, character traits, etc. Then pi...

In English Literature, to support a point you want to make about a novel or a poem, you need to provide evidence from the text that supports the claims or suggestions you are making about the text. You th...