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‘When I discovered that I was being rewarded...for uplifting American morals, I confess I did despair.’^[1]Edith Wharton’s response to receiving the Pulitzer prize in 1921 certainly raises quest...

There are many ways to structure a paragraph within an essay. Personally, before I start writing the essay, I make sure that I have played out a basic plan of the argument I wish to present. Through this ...

I found that there are a couple of things that helped. Every paragraph that you write must contain at least two quotes from the text. First, you must analyse these quotes linguistically and thematically. ...

Both Milton, in ‘Paradise Lost’, and Webster, in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, highlight the destructive nature of desire on those it effects. There are subtle differences in their presentation, with themes suc...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce’s semi-autobiographical bildungsroman published in 1916, follows its hero, Stephen Dedalus, on a twenty year journey from infancy to adulth...