English Resources (page 47)

What is English? It can be suggested that the term, 'What is English' is rather broad and branches out into many different areas, but it is important to gain some basic understandi...

Grammar. It is a necessary evil. Many students underestimate the necessity of grammar. For example, I am currently teaching a student, and her first language is Italian. Wanting to le...

Victorian class system is reflected in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", through the concept of duality and duplicity. Oscar Wilde expresses the separation of the aristocrats from the mid...

Both "The Great Gatsby" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" deal with the idea of having aspirations and living the American Dream. The American Dream is defined as the desire and hope of ...

Both Shakespeare and Austen present us with the flaws in society from their perspectives. They highlight the key issues seen in everyday life amongst their societies, such as the impo...

The theme of gothic in 'Dracula' and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is created through the use of linguistic devices, settings and characters. The concept of the 'Gothic' theme within n...

WHAT ARE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES? Prepositional phrases show the relationship between the object of the phrase and another word in the sentence. I got my book from school. Here...

. 'It is striking that many novelists[.] write almost obsessively about the uncertain crossing and invasion of identities.' [Robert J.C. Young] How do any texts explore the 'uncertai...

Betjeman firmly lays the blame for the damage done to the speaker at the feet of the Victorian era itself, reminding us that this was the culture that condemned Oscar Wilde ('she ...

Baudelaire creates the inverse effect in his 'prose poems', by elevating, with occasional flurries of poeticism, mostly un-metrical language - language which does not invite in the re...