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The first thing I tell students is when presented with a question, take time to plan. Do not start writing immediately - most of what you will produce won’t be much good. In a lesson, I provide students w...

Corruption refers to a break away from the normal and expected, and this explanation can certainly be seen throughout Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet.The death of King Hamlet immediately introduces the th...

The surreal image of this place aids the clear portrayal of excessive wealth, prominent throughout, which is closely linked to the worshipping of luxury. For example, the "large, proud, rose-coloured...

A good way of tackling this can be to go against instinct and look at the form and structure of the text first, and what this might tell us about the poem, before we read to analyse the language and theme...

Both "The Handmaid's Tale" and "1984" are dystopian novels set in the near-future. The characters in each novel are subject to extreme supervision and control by the governments in pow...