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English Literature
A Level

How would you identify interesting motifs in a novel?

Motifs in a novel are recurring and/or significant images. The most interesting motifs in a novel will be closely linked to integral themes running throughout. For example, in Cormac McCarthy's The Ro...

TM
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Discuss this extract from 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole in relation to the Gothic genre.

(Answer would typically be a whole essay, but here is an example introduction and paragraph.)

Written in 1764, Walpole’s ‘The Castle of Otranto’ is widely accepted as the first defined gothic novel...

PL
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Why is Shylock's "Hath not a Jew..." speech important?

In this speech (III.i.48-66), Shylock offers a furious yet relatable explanation of his desire to enact vengeance against Antonio by claiming his bond and taking a pound of flesh from Antonio's body. Shyl...

EH
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‘Childhood is a time of freedom and happiness, children should retain their innocence into adulthood’ To what extent do you agree with this in regards to Blake’s representation of childhood?

Throughout Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake makes his opinions known that childhood innocence should be retained through to adulthood. Evidence for this lies especially in his ‘Introduction’ to In...

DG
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Please could you explain this quote for me from "A Streetcar Named Desire"? "They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!"

Ok so first, let's set the scene for this quote. Blanche speaks these words to Eunice and the Negro woman upon arriving at the Kowalski apartment at the beginning of Scene One. She has just arrived in New...

AH
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