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To regard Macbeth as a ‘butcher’ is far too restrictive a term for the complexity Shakespeare intended for his character. A ‘butcher’ is someone who kills in excess without remorse or proper reason, where...

The idea of a closed-book exam can be pretty daunting, but not having a text to rely on doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t get the same quality out of an essay if you were to have the book right in front ...

A Marxist critics' concern with a literary text, will be to examine the narrative and character's ways of getting and keeping economic power is the motive behind all social and political activities, inclu...

A Psychoanalytic reading aims to better understand the inner workings of human behaviour by conceptualising meaning from everyday human experiences such as anxieties, trauma, sexuality, repression of the ...

To meet the marking criteria, a sustained use of critics is necessary to support the line of a student’s argument with reference to creditable sources to back their points. To further this for a more soph...