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How many quotes should I learn for my essays in the exam?

It is wise to learn more than is needed. However, this doesn't mean overload your brain with quotation. If you're aiming to write three paragraphs per essay then that means you will want to include three quo...
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Answered by Zarina L. • English tutor
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“To what extent is Viola truly a comic heroine?”

When the audience first meets Viola, she is the victim of a tragedy and is a stranger to the exotic land of Illyria. It is in this crucial moment in the play that Viola decides to disguise herself as a man t...
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Compare and contrast the presentation of characters in ‘The Winter’s Tale’, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Magic Toyshop’. To what extent do they conform to the description of an amiable misanthrope?

Prince Hamlet, the eponymous character of Shakespeare’s Jacobean tragedy, derived from Saxo Grammaticus’ medieval epic ‘Amleth’ , is described by William Hazlitt as the ‘most amiable of misanthropes’. This l...
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Answered by Lakeem R. • English tutor
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In what way is the eponymous figure in The Duchess of Malfi, a 'fully formed' character?

The most evident feature of the Duchess is her resistance to give in to her family’s attempts to constrain her: preventing her from wedding for a second time, which, as Schmiga points out[1], was well within...
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Answered by Chloe H. • English tutor
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‘Appetite – whether for power, knowledge or sex – is always a destructive force.’ In the light of this view, discuss ways in which writers present appetite. In your answer, compare one drama text and one poetry text.

Both Christina Rossetti and John Webster explore how an unconstrained appetite results in suffering. Webster’s Ferdinand desires power over his sister’s sexuality, knowledge of her intimacies (he instructs B...
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Answered by Jasmine C. • English tutor
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