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How is Piggy presented as a sympathetic character in Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

Piggy has no parents. When he and Ralph first meet, Ralph shows a hero-worship of his father, to which PIggy can only respond, 'my dad's dead... and my mum' Golding immediately elicits sympathy from his read...
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‘Othello’ – William Shakespeare ‘Ultimately it is hard to see Emilia as anything other than a tragic victim of male power and malice.’ To what extent do you agree with this view? [...] comment on Shakespeare’s dramatic methods.

Introduction - setting the scene for the question (in an exam setting, context can be important, but what's more vital is conceiving of your thesis, laying it out and giving evidence for why you think this)....
KS
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What is the best way to approach and structure essays for Shakespeare, prose and drama and why?

Although there are several different approaches, I have found that the 'PETAL' structure ( P - point, E - evidence, T - terminology, A - analysis, L - link) demonstrates all the skills that the mark scheme r...
TD
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How would you begin to answer the question "Compare the ways poets present ideas about death in ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’."

Both ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘Bayonet Charge’ deal with the topic of death during the first world war, but they present death differently. In ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ death is presented as qui...
KH
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Explore the ways in which Williams makes use of confrontation in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Within Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams uses confrontation, whether it be gross physical acts of violation committed by Stanley, or that of psychological confrontation of Blanche's realities, to ...
IJ
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