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The play-within-a-play highlights the feeling of paranoia built up throughout Hamlet. In performance, it makes the audience highly aware of their perspective as witnesses to both truth and lies. The whole...

In English Literature, to support a point you want to make about a novel or a poem, you need to provide evidence from the text that supports the claims or suggestions you are making about the text. You th...

To help yourself to write a clear and concise answer it can be helpful to follow the P.E.A/E.L structure when writing an essay in exams. P stands for the point you're making e.g. 'In Mary Shelly's Franken...

There are multiple aspects of Henry James' writing that create suspense for the reader. The most obvious is the genre of the text itself: the gothic. Gothic literature came about in the eighteenth century...

Through the tragic demise of Othello, in the text, Shakespeare illustrates how the internal flaws of the protagonist acts as a catalyst towards chaos and suffering. The hero falls victim to the play's mac...