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In what ways and to what ends does Thomas Hardy present the idea of fate in Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy asks the reader to question whether or not Tess has any control over what happens in her life. At the beginning of the novel, Tess is punished for the death of P...

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How do the poets Thomas Hardy and T. S. Eliot make use of settings and places to signify their central concerns?

Whilst explaining my response I would highlight the use of the different assessment objectives in my answer, to show where my answer is picking up marks on the mark schemeSettings and places can ...

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How does Virginia Woolf deplore canonic conventions in 'Mrs Dalloway' through the characters of Elizabeth and Clarissa Dalloway?

Top tip: for top marks EMBED quotations directly from the novel throughout your essay, + to make this process easier and approach revision quickly ensure you highlight and use sticky-notes when you fi...

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'Methinks I see these things with parted eye, when everything seems double'. To what extent does Hermia's statement at the end of Act 4 capture Shakespeare's intentions in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

From the very beginning of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Shakespeare plunges his audience into a 'rare visions' of the intoxicating 'purple wound' of love and the fragments of confusion that ensue from it. ...

Answered by Esther B. English tutor
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What is the significance of time in Hardy's "At Castle Boterel"?

This poem, consisting of seven stanzas each of five lines (a quintet), comes from Hardy's 1912-13 sequence of poems, which were written to commemorate the death of his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1912. H...

Answered by Sam L. English tutor
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