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Faulks said of Birdsong that he wanted to explore how much suffering human beings could endure. Examine the significance of human suffering in the novel in the light of this view.

Essay Plan: Introduction: Faulk’s narrative highlights suffering as a phenomenon prevalent throughout all aspects of human existence, the novel’s episodic structure and juxtapositioning of imagery explore...

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'The tragic hero never suffers alone' To what extent do you agree with this view in relation to Miller's 'Death of a Salesman'

In Miller's 'Death of a Salesman', although we see suffering from other characters, such as Linda and Happy, who strive to support and impress Willy, Willy's own suffering is the most explicit to the audi...

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Explore the theme of blindness in Shakespeare's "King Lear"

Shakespeare's "King Lear" presents the audience with different types of blindness - both literal and metaphorical. Both Lear and Gloucester are blind to the deceit and plotting of their ...

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Examine Yeats's representation of life and nature in one of his poems.

Yeats, in his deeply elegiac The Wild Swans at Coole reflects upon the cyclical process of life through nature, presenting human life as fragile and momentary in juxtaposition with the constancy ...

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'Jane Eyre is a radical novel that critiques the institutions of Victorian society such as religion and marriage'. Discuss.

The novel of Jane Eyre did cause controversy at the time of its release. Whilst some considered it to be modern and progressive, a more general critique was that the novel was radical, trampling on the in...

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