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The biggest question to ask yourself when analysing a new poem is 'why?' - why does the writer use those specific words or that literary device? What effect does that have? It is easy to spot that a poet ...

Firstly, it's really important to have a good level of familarity with the text, as this can help you choose what to write about in the exam. Make sure you have read the full text at least twice - prefera...

There are two female characters in 'Hamlet': Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark, and Ophelia, Hamlet's would-be lover. The women themselves have relatively little stage-time, so they are mostl...

The setting of The Bloody Chamber bares way to a suitable 'atmosphere' for the exploration of the speaker's unconscious mind. The speaker moves away from the busy musical life of her home in Paris, to the...

Tennessee Williams is renowned for his use of stage and lighting to convey underlying themes during his plays and his use of light in a Streetcar Named Desire is no different.
For a question like th...