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Roy introduces the characters Rahel and Estha as twins, rather than as separate entities, in the first chapter; this emphasises their closeness, especially in their 'joint identities'...

Underline the key words in the title and the following essay: consequences, choices. Shakespeare wrote 'Macbeth' in the early 1600s, when James 1st was on the throne. During thi...

What is troubling Macbeth at the beginning of the scene and how is he persuaded by Lady Macbeth to go through with the murder of King Duncan? You must consider: Character and acti...

A common question from learners concerns their lack of understanding around the meaning of grammatical terms, or word class/group, such as noun, verb, adverb, adjective and so on. It ...

Helping students with their writing Writing assignments, essays, and reports is a challenge for students at every level. Differentiation requires that we break down the difficult ...

John Milton's Lycidas (1637) has been widely interpreted as both a pastoral elegy and, conflictingly, as a subversion of the genre as critic Seamus Perry has argued , and Milton seems...

Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' and Coleridge's 'Christabel' both depict poetic worlds of Gothic sensuality and ghostly ethereality, centring on the blurred distinction between dream an...

'First Love' is a poem by John Clare, generally regarded to have been influenced by Mary Joyce, the first woman he fell in love with. It is a poem that does not adhere to the esta...

March 2014 - The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings was published yesterday and American Universities came top. Oxford and Cambridge came in at numbers four and five res...

Outline and evaluate the relevance theoretic account of verbal irony, illustrating your answer with examples. What do you take to be the main advantages and disadvantages of this ...