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Many of Philip Larkin;s poems engage with the theme of death, notably 'Dockery and Son' and 'Days'. These poems provide musings on death with bleak narratives in Larkin's often cynical tone, as Larkin lam...

A symbol is often an object that is described in a text which has a deeper meaning than what it may seem at surface level. It appears singularly or few times throughout a novel or play, for example, flyin...

For an essay where you are comparing two texts I would recommend comparing both texts throughout the whole essay in order to show clear engagement with them together, as supposed to writing solely about o...

In George Orwell's dystopian novella "Animal Farm" (1946), Squealer is a character that repeatedly abuses language to manipulate the other animals in order to justify Napoleon's action. This is ...

Priestley believed that in a rapidly developing capitalist world, issues of social responsibility were of increasing importance. He explores this message in his play, 'An Inspector Calls' through a carefu...