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The supernatural elements in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus are both genuinely frightening and faintly ridiculous. The conjuring of devils in Act One for instance, in which Faustus’ evocati...

The unseen part of the exam tends to want to test your knowledge of literary devices, so before the exam it's good to brush up on those. Even if it seems impossible to understand the meaning of an unseen ...

It's important to allow yourself time to plan before you start writing. If you plan well, you'll find you can write the actual essay itself much faster and it will be clearer (less waffle!). If I have an ...

Close analysis can be a difficult task but it is this difficulty that makes it equally rewarding. It allows the reader to zoom into sections of the text and reveal, through analysis, how the chosen writer...

Steinbeck makes the way Crooks is treated so disturbing through showing his interaction with Lennie and his desire to join Lennie and George's venture on their own farm in the future. Crooks initially ref...