by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level English, A2, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, English Literature Exam, Macbeth, The Gothic
What do you think is the significance of the witches in Macbeth? Jan 10At the end of the play, Malcolm describes Macbeth as a ‘butcher’. Do you think that Macbeth is merely portrayed as a ‘butcher’? June 10“The violence in Macbeth is so excessive that it ceases to...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level English, A2, AQA Lit B, English Literature Exam, Narrative, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
In Wuthering Heights, Bronte uses a framing narrative to tell the story of Cathy and Heathcliffe’s romance. This is typical of gothic novels like Frankenstein, and later, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, where we enter the story through a series of...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level, A2, Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, English Literature Exam, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, The Bloody Chamber, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Elements of the Gothic Section B exam questions for AQA Lit B A2 Written Paper:Gothic writing has been attacked as ’a species of brutality’. With reference to three texts, to what extent have you found this view to be true?‘Four hundred years of excess, horror,...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level English, A2, AQA Lit B, Ego, English Literature Exam, Freud, GCSE, Id, Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, Something Interesting, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, was one of the first psychologists – writing about how we think, and why. His ideas give us an interesting way of understanding literature. His theory of the Id, the Ego and the Superego, from his essay, ‘Beyond the...
by melaniewp | May 5, 2013 | A2, Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, Model Essays, The Bloody Chamber, The Courtship of Mr Lyon, The Tiger's Bride
Analysis of Angela Carter’s review of the Beauty and the Beast: The Courtship of Mr Lyon and The Tiger’s BrideProfa. M.A. Meyre Ivone Santana da Silva *the text is abridged and cleaned up, as indicated by the brackets.In an interview [with] Anna Katsavos,...
