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The classic Aristotelean tragic properties, as set out in his Poetics, are tools by which Shakespearean tragedy was shaped. For instance, they are heavily influential and prevalent in Othello, as this epo...

Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the women are characterised as passive, disposable figures who exist to serve a utilitarian function in response to male action in the novel. Women such as...

The best way to structure your essay is to understand exactly what the question is asking for. If the question is asking you to analyse the significance of a certain aspect of a text, then your first thou...

Writing in exam conditions can be very difficult. We often panic and start writing an answer to the question we think we have seen as opposed to the one we have actually been asked. It is also ve...

For this answer I will be using the example question "Much American literature is based on the fantasy of the American Dream. Discuss." applied to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeral...