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In both Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, gothic conventions are employed in order to express the writers’ attitude towards gender roles. 

During the Victorian...

While the conventional revenge tragedy protagonist accepts their role as an avenger early in the play and is determined in their mission to extract revenge, Hamlet is very introspective and spends a di...

King Lear is one of those plays which Shakespeare uses to tackle a wide variety of themes, all of which can be analysed deeply individually, but also in terms of their interconnected nature. Some of the m...

How can I write an essay about a poem I’ve never seen or even heard of before???

Sometimes poems can be daunting. But close reading a poem can also be fun, like working o...

It is hard to get top marks without what examiners may call 'original' ideas. I found it hard in school to filter out points which recieve bigger marks from the rest, therefore I have come up with a fe...