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Milton's poetic style is famously teeming with long and winding sentences which spill over enjambed lines and often only deploy the main verb at the end. It means that, as readers, we're always struggling...

In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Seamus Heaney’s North, and Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye, identity is presented as a site of brutal conflict and violence, sundering the tense surface of t...

ardy broadly presents desire as a negative, disruptive force within the novel. This disruption emerges firstly from Alec's desire for Tess, which leads to her being raped in the section Maiden no More, as...

In “Porphyria’s Lover” Browning uses language to show how obsession can lead to the desire to possess another to the extent that ultimately, the speaker kills Porphyria. Upon deciding to murder Porphyria,...

Examiners want to see you properly engaging with any secondary material you use - it's important not to just drop it in and ignore it. Read a couple of secondary articles on your set texts and make sure t...