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Firstly, it is important to remember the five areas you will be marked on. These are: AO1: articulate informed, personal and creative responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology...

In Act 1, Scene 3 of ‘Hamlet’, Polonius is warning Ophelia to distance herself from Hamlet, to avoid risking the family’s honourby losing her chastity. Shakespeare uses blank verse to ennoblehis Polonius ...

There are distinct moments in the play where Hamlets mother, Gertrude, appears especially frail as Hamlet suggests she is in his first soliloquy. This side to her seems especially apparent in Act 3 scene ...

Cleopatra’s desire for Anthony acts to undermine her portrayal of commanding through her obsession with him that seems to govern her irrational actions. Her opening line: ‘where is he?’ portrays her to be...

This is an essay question that could come up in A Level based on the syllabus' I have looked at; there is not time or space to write out the full essay here, so I have gone for three key bullet points I w...