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Many exam boards require the use of literary criticism in order to colour, shape and add direction to A Level responses. Higher scoring essays demonstrate an engagement as well as recognition of these sec...

While the more archaic language of quotations from Shakespeare may seem intimidating, there’s no need to panic. As with all close reading questions, it’s important to begin your approach to the passage by...

Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 7 consists entirely of an internal battle that Macbeth is having with himself based on the plan to murder Duncan. He is beginning to contemplate whether the advantages o...

It can be argued that Hamlet’s failure to take action is exemplified through his avowed intention to "put an antic disposition on" as a disguise for his real feelings and intentions. The hypocri...

In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy asks the reader to question whether or not Tess has any control over what happens in her life. At the beginning of the novel, Tess is punished for the death of P...