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A key part of A-level English Literature is understanding the context of texts. We should note that when we are reading something, what we are reading is very often inseparable from a network of ideas and...

I think there are two key points to this answer. Firstly, that though a question may just say 'discuss character X', what its really asking is 'how does character X develop' - its very rare to find a tota...

Frankenstein was written during the popularisation of Renaissance Humanism: a social movement in Europe that celebrated the power of man and moved away from religious beliefs. Shelley uses the character V...

I argue that Christina Rossetti's Victorian poem, 'Goblin Market', was written to deliver a moral message, containing feminist ideas, to children. Rossetti uses detailed imagery to engage her young audien...

To answer an essay question you first need to decide what the question is actually asking - pay attention to the question words (explore, discuss, to what extent, how etc) and use this to choose how to a...