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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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Chaucer: The Prologue to Canterbury Tales |notes| some ideas| A-levels
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer: Canterbury is a town, that hosts the Canterbury Cathedral, which is proclaimed to have curative powers. – Curative as in healing someone physically as well as mentally. The Canterbury Church ⛪ is known to be miraculous as many people’s prayers and wishes have been realised there. – Thus, it has…
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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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The Winter’s Tale – modern perspective. |Analysis |Notes |Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale is bizarrely a very confusing play. According to the title, it is seen as a fable- compromising reality with magic, a fairy tale to enliven long winter nights. Even though, the first three acts resonates with Leontes’ jealousy ( which has been brilliantly examined by Shakespeare, who decries it as one of…
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Howard’s End: The Schlegel Sisters. Analysis |Notes.
The Schlegels are half-German (their father emigrated from Germany). But the Wilcoxes are thoroughly English. The Schlegels are more independent and cosmopolitan in outlook, while the Wilcoxes are more narrow-minded and conservative. The Schelgels attend concerts and informal dinner-parties, but the Wilcoxes show little interest in casual conservation and culture. Superficially, Margaret and Helen Schlegel…
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The Knight’s Tale: Chaucer. Genre|notes|analysis |CIE |IGCSE| A-Levels
The Knight’s Tale is a romance. It examines love which is fuelled by honour, as for the Knight, love subsists on honour and only the valiant emerges as the real lover. Romance,as a genre, is a fictional story in verse or prose which unrealistically develops improbable adventures of the idealised characters it has. Chaucer, though…
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The Knight’s Tale: On Chaucer – a peek at his life. | A-levels |CIE|Notes|Analysis
Courtly Chaucer: To move in court circles, as Chaucer did, and to be the King’s servant, was to be close to the centre of power, for the government of the realm rested in the King’s hands and the country’s stability and prosperity depended very largely upon his character. Although he ruled with the help of…
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