by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here’s the original story (history) written by Holinshed, that Shakespeare used for Macbeth.Shortlie after happened a strange and vncouth woonder, which afterward was the cause of much trouble in the realme of Scotland, as ye shall after heare.It fortuned as...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Birling, GCSE, IGCSE
Character SummaryArthur Birling is the first character who speaks in An Inspector Calls. He is he first to be investigated or accused by the Inspector and is the first to be mentioned in the stage directions [a prosperous manufacturer].In Birling, Priestly has...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | Applying to Oxford and Cambridge, George Callaghan, Guest Blog
Oxford and Cambridge are among the most famous universities in the world. They are unarguably the most renowned in Europe. Gaining a place is tough, but not impossible. George Callaghan, director of Tamesis Educational Consultants, and an Oxford alumni, explains how...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | GCSE, GCSE English Literature, How to Compare, How to Write an Essay, Poetry
Help! Your teacher’s just told you to write a comparison between two or three poems, but you don’t know how…Don’t panic! Just follow these simple steps: first, figure out what’s the same and what’s different. This is where a...
by melaniewp | Jun 4, 2013 | AQA, Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, Medusa, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, OCR, Poetry
In ‘Medusa’, Carol Ann Duffy creates a personification of jealousy that flickers from mythical re-imagining, through metaphor to a vividly specific instance of ‘Love gone bad.’ The language of the first person narrator is violent, mixing...
