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How is language used in Satan's approach to Eden in 'Paradise Lost'?

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 to...
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Compare and contrast the presentation of identity as a site of conflict in Things Fall Apart, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and North

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 the ...
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Explore Hardy's presentation of Alec's desire in Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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 he...
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Explore how language is used in Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover”

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, th...
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How can I include critical material in my examination essays?

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 that...
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