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In Shakespeare’s ‘comedy’, Twelfth Night, why is bullying and wit celebrated?

Shakespeare presented the Puritanical Malvolio as a comic villain, whose downfall the audience revels in. This concept, known as Schadenfreude, is typical of comedic fiction. Malvolio’s arrogance and hubris ...
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How do I write a paragraph for an essay.

The most common way to write a paragraph for A-Level and GCSE is to use PEER or PEAR paragraph technique. For myself, I prefer to use the PEAR paragraph. PEAR stands for Point, Evidence, Analysis, Response. ...
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How do I structure an essay?

Each person has a different writing and presentation style when it comes to essay writing, but if you are really struggling with structure, I found this technique to work for me. For example, if the question...
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Write the introduction and first paragraph to an essay which argues that "Briony is just as much a victim of her own crime as Robbie Turner is" in the novel "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Both Robbie and Briony are victims of their social climate, which is a common element of the crime genre, whether it be of social class, war, inadequate parenting, or Briony’s ‘truth’. Briony’s crime emerges...
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Referring to HG Wells' 'Time Machine', how does the author in lines 12-25 of the extract use language and structure to show the narrator's thoughts and feelings about the people he meets? (Edexcel GCSE 2018)

One way in which Wells uses language to portray the narrator's sentiment about new people is by certain literary devices such as pathetic fallacy and alliteration. The narrator describes the 'warm air' aroun...
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