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Bram Stoker: Dracula
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847 to William Stoker, a civil servant at Dublin Castle, and Charlotte Stoker, a social crusader. By his own account, he was an invalid in early childhood, unable to walk until the age of seven, although in later life he never explained what his illness had been. He…
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Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice |Act 1 Sc 1| Analysis |notes
The Merchant of Venice: Act 1, Sc 1: gives a detailed representation of the plot: Antonio, the Merchant of Venice, is worrisome and is waiting for his ships to return to Venice. his fortune depends on the safe return of the cargo ships. Antonio has many ‘friends’, who easily read his facial expressions. Salerio and…
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Shakespeare: King Lear | Act 2,Sc 1 upto line 26|Analysis |notes
Act 2, Sc 1: Opening with Edmund meeting Curan. Curan shares news about Regan visiting Gloucester, with her husband, the Duke of Cornwall. Edmund is astonished as he does not expect guests on that day. He is bound to strategise ways of making Edgar look like a villain to Gloucester. Curan further informs him about…
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Arthur Yap: an afternoon nap
The poem does not have any capital letters. It is a bold poem, critiquing the compelling education system,which disturbs the healthy equation of the child to have time to relax and enjoy. Despite its bold attempt to be a critique of parents, who abuse and exploit their children by imposing impossible rules and academic expectations…
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Pope : from An Essay on Criticism |Analysis |notes
Pope started writing poems as a medium to reveal his emotions and pen down his frustrations against the society and its institutions. Ambitious, he was a very driven writer, choosing his themes to reveal the hidden agendas of the society. He was largely self-educated as he suffered from a spinal deformation. Moreover, he was targeted…
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Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn | Chapter Four |Analysis
☆☆☆ Chapter 4 ☆☆☆ The opening paragraph announces Huck’s new routine. He is settling at school and at Widow Douglas’s. He precises that he dislikes Mathematics as he does not find its usefulness in his life. He goes on about slowly 🐌 liking school as he enjoys getting beaten when caught for having bunked it.Huck…
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Judith Wright: Australia 1970 | Analysis |Notes |IGCSE
Judith Wright is an Australian poet.She has been called ‘ the conscience of the nation’ as she writes about those topics which disturb the people but they disregard them as investing their attention or money in these issues will lead to financial loss.Hence to keep up the industrial progress, the doom of these entities is…
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Stability by Philip K Dick | analysis| notes|
The author: Philip K Dick is renowned for his inclination for Science fiction. Dick’s central concern is that the reality varies from what it is and how it must be understood. Some ideas: Progress and regression come together. When there is progress, there is the danger of regression. If there is neither, the world is…
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Elizabeth Bishop: The Mountain| Analysis |Notes |songs of ourselves | A-Levels
Viewed as an illustrious American poet, Elizabeth Bishop had a turbulent life, which was a journey of constantly moving from one town to the other, submerging in alcoholism and undergoing hard emotional losses. Her tumultuous life bred well-crafted poetry, to which many related. The visual aptitude and understanding of tone of her poems were sustained…
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William Wordsworth: A Complaint. Analysis and notes
Structure: It is an epitath – poem which is usually recited on one’s deathbed. The poem is an epitath of the beloved’s love for the poet. His retribution is about how much she has changed and how deeply he feels that change. Three stanzas of 6 verses- commonly known as sextets. Rhyming scheme is regular…
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How does Shakespeare make this such a tense moment in the play? |past exams questions |SC|IGCSE |Romeo and Juliet
Model answer to extract-based question.
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