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Is 'Frankenstein' a science-fiction novel?

Novels rarely fit neatly into genre-categorisations, more often containing elements of multiple ‘types’. Frankenstein is no exception. Immediately upon its first publication, the novel challenged existing li...
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How do you write a thoroughly coherent essay?

A logical and comprehensible structure is essential to every essay if it is to be coherent enough to hit the top bands. Highlighting the key words in the chosen/given question and thoroughly ordering your ar...
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'Ariel and Caliban are equally enslaved' Use your knowledge of the play as a whole, and show how far you agree with this view.

Ariel and Caliban are two characters liberated at the end of the play, and left behind on the island when Prospero, their master, leaves. It is made clear very early on that neither creature is at liberty to...
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Explore the movement from innocence to experience in L.P.Hartley's 'The Go-Between'.

The deadly nightshade in The Go-Between is used by Hartley as a symbol to exacerbate the sexual tension and bring focus to Leo’s own sexual awakening. Hartley evokes Leo’s sexual awakening through the phalli...
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Compare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and 'My Last Duchess' [selected poem].

In both 'Ozymandias' and 'My Last Duchess', the character alluded to in the poem's title is framed and ultimately controlled by external powers. For the statue of Ozymandias, it is the 'sands' of time which ...
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