English Resources (page 64)

What does Tamburlaine`s speech tell us about the role of women in Marlowe`s work? Women in the oeuvre of Christopher Marlowe do not have a particularly significant role, nor are we ...

Byron's presentation and representation of 'mobility' in Don Juan The word 'mobility' is used only once in Don Juan, to describe Lady Adeline Amundeville, who features in canto...

"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?" In Agrippina's case the question should be 'who in the land is the most powerfu...

The New Zealand government announced controversially last year that Shakespeare was no longer relevant to students and that they would be removing his works from their school curricul...

Moll Flanders and Roxana are two novels by Daniel Defoe which deal with the subject of marriage. Although living in very different conditions, both women see the connection between me...

"The sympathy which the Victorian novel routinely extends to women who are downtrodden, stifled or oppressed is often accompanied by a disappointing reluctance on the part of the nove...

Language plays and important role in human life. Out of all the languages in the world, English is considered as the international language. There are some reasons why English is so i...

How to approach teaching The Gothic The AQA syllabus for A2 English Literature includes a component "Elements of the Gothic", which looks at the texts - Frankenstein, Macbeth , Wut...

Addie Bundren`s role within Faulkner`s As I Lay Dying is at its most basic level as a catalyst for the troublesome ventures of her family. And yet, whilst she is physically dead a...

The narrator of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was recently accused of child abuse, shocking the world with a parenting style so rigorous, I suspect it will stun even hard-working, d...