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As with any exam task, you should balance using your own ideas to engage critically with the text with, maintaining a strong focus on the requirements of the question. Before you start, ensure that you ha...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby offers up a social commentary on various aspects of the 1920s society such as injustice, betrayal and corruption of the American Dream. Among the themes present...

When analysing Shakespeare, don’t panic if you don’t understand every word; focus instead on the overall meaning of the text. Ask yourself: What is Shakespeare trying to achieve here? Has he written this ...

Thomas Hardy's 1875 work 'Far from the Madding Crowd' presents the reader with a critical dilemma. Does the independence of headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene extoll the virtues of dominant female sexua...

Quotations and examples are key to wrting a good essay. It is often the case that short quotations consiting of only a few words can be much more effective in suppporting your point than long quoations of...