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Relevant for both GCSE and A Level: Every student will have a different way of doing a close reading of a poem. What is important is that a student finds a style with which they are comfortable and confid...

Sonnet 23 depicts a love that paralyses. The lover is compared to an actor who forgot his lines due to his fear and nervousness and loses his mastery of his role, also known as his ‘part’, implying that t...

The three main points that could be made of this statement are:

Hamlet himself is not a man of action, unlike many of Shakespeare's leading men. He spends much of the play brooding and plottin...

Violence does play a key role in crime writing, whether it is physical, psychological or emotional abuse. In McEwans's 'Atonement' we are introduced to both physical and emotional violence exerte...

Shakespeare's Macbeth is an archetypal tragic protagonist. He possesses a harmartia, a fatal flaw, that outweighs his better qualities and leads him to an irrevocable downfall. In spite of his talent as a...