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English Literature
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Explain what role nature plays in King Lear

Key advice for an answer:You must come up with a point/a line of argument: In King Lear, Shakespeare subverts ordinary early-modern views of hierarchy and natural order t...

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Discuss the Presentation of Ophelia and Gertrude as Women in Hamlet

Within literary criticism, scholars are usually concurrent in their view of Ophelia and Gertrude’s ‘frailty’. However, this may be an unfair reading of their character as contextually, the agency afforded...

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Explore the nature of tragedy in Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'

(Extracts from a longer answer)The tragedy in ‘La Belle Dame’ could be argued to be the knight’s sitting on a ‘cold hill side’ waiting for his love. At a deeper level the tragedy in ‘La Belle Dame’ emerge...

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Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present good and evil. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors. (Total for Question 10 = 40 marks)

In both Dracula and Little Stranger, good and evil is a prominent theme which is not only showcased through the characters in each novel, rather through other aspects like setting and narrative voice. Thu...

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To what extent do the political regimes in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ present complete control over their citizens?

The overwhelming totalitarianism exerted by the political regimes presented to us by Margaret Atwood and George Orwell arguably serve to completely control their citizens. The notion of government control...

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