by melaniewp | Sep 30, 2013 | Analysis, AQA, English Literature, Exam Essays, GCSE, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
‘The Funeral of Mrs Drablow’ starts on a positive note. Samuel Daily’s vehicle is as ‘capacious’ and ‘plush’ as anything Kipps has seen ‘in all my life’. In Kipps’ description of the inn, the word ‘capacious’ appears again. Though remote, Crythin Gifford is shown to...
by melaniewp | Sep 23, 2013 | Analysis, GCSE, Setting, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
Is Crythin Gifford a real place? No. Susan Hill says she imagined the place being anywhere on the East Coast of England between Whitby/Scarborough and the Essex marshes. She does mention ‘Crewe’ but says in an interview that she just put this in...
by melaniewp | Sep 23, 2013 | A-Level English, English Literature, IB, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
This essay is 1,150 words long and is aimed at International Baccalaureate Higher Level or A-Level.The Handmaid’s Tale explores a world in which there has been a catastrophic failure of fertility. Women are removed to traditional roles and feminism is a dead...
by melaniewp | Sep 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
‘Rural’ and ‘home’ both have positive connotations, making us think of comfort, belonging, and natural order. The oxymoron in the phrase ‘ordinary pain’ is shocking, begging the question how something extreme like ‘pain’...
by melaniewp | Sep 22, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Woman in Black
Isolation is a key theme in The Woman in Black. Arthur Kipps is emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is set apart from other men by his traumatic experiences. Later in the novel, he is physically isolated from...
