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In most cases, an essay question is asking you to debate a certain topic. For example, if you were to study Doctor Faustus, a question-title may be "Does Marlowe present Faustus as a character with w...

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...