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What is the best way to structure an essay in the exam?

Overall Structure The best way to structure your essay would be: Introduction - include contextual background and state your Line of Argument (what you are going to argue through the essay, but do not be exp...
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Answered by Dina H. • English tutor
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Examine the importance of spectacle in the Tempest with comparative reference to Dr Faustus

The play The Tempest is itself a giant spectacle; from the grand illusionary storm which opens the performance and continuing throughout, all in the name of achieving Prospero’s engineered plot. The use of s...
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In Lady Macbeth's first speech, how does Shakespeare present ambition? How does he present ambition in the play as a whole?

In this speech, Lady Macbeth is reading a letter from her husband in which he tells her what has happened with the witches. The audience already know all that has happened, so rather than focussing on the ac...
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Answered by Charlotte V. • English tutor
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‘Laughter is always dangerous.’ In the light of this view, discuss ways in which writers use humour. In your answer, compare one drama text and one poetry text.

It is clear that humour is employed in both Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale (1478) and Samuel Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1773), yet the context and manifestation of this humour differs greatly...
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Answered by Joel S. • English tutor
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Explore a mode of female freedom in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

Margaret’s inheritance in North and South serves as a source of economic freedom as it successfully integrates her into the masculine sphere of influence. Margaret is transformed from a woman characterised b...
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