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Good question - well done for not disowning your intuitions about Satan. In a sense, this is the core question that faces readers of Paradise Lost today. Why would Milton, writing a Protestant tr...

The critic Robert Langbaum said that essence of dramatic monologues - poems like 'My Last Duchess,' where an invented character speaks the words, rather than an author or author-figure - was the 'tension ...

Literary analysis involves closely evaluating a text and using evidence from it to support an argument. First of all, you need to make an argument. Read the question carefully and think about how you can ...

Context is vital for showing your understanding of a text as well as helping support your argument when writing an essay. It is important when adding a context point to your paragraph that is is only a br...

Soliloquies are speeches spoken by a character that reveal personal thoughts and feelings when no one else apart from them is on-stage. In 'Hamlet', it is difficult to summarise the personality and charac...