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Discuss the importance of the Beast in Goulding's Lord of the Flies

Goulding’s 1954 novella ‘Lord of the Flies’ presents an allegorical warning concerned with the intrinsic evil in all men, an idea expounded and explored through the presence of the ‘beastie.’ We can discuss ...
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On the significance of the imagery of “words” to the play Othello

The idea of words and indeed how language can be manipulated to obscure and alter the truth is crucial to the play, in particular the character of Iago. The magic of the yarns Iago spins in order to create a...
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How are past and present intertwined in a streetcar named desire?

Williams uses the domestic setting and naturalistic character exploration as a microcosm for wider elements of social change and tensions in post war America. In this reading of the play Blanche represents t...
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How am I meant to analyse an unseen poem when I can't even work out what the poem is about?

Firstly, don't forget that it's normal not to know what a poem is saying straight away! The whole idea of a poem is for a poet to put forward an idea or thought implicitly, using metaphors, rhyme, meter (and...
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