by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | Angela Carter, Ann Radcliffe, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, Frankenstein, Freud, Macbeth, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Welcome to the melodramatic, magnificent world of the Gothic! Discover damsels in distress, angry women, humane animals and beastly men, the natural, supernatural and the unnatural. Enjoy transformation, transgression, claustrophobia, madness and explosive...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | AQA Lit B, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Lady of Shallott, Mirror, Quotes, Sylvia Plath, Symbolism, The Gothic
All Gothic resourcesMirrors are a key element of the Gothic, symbolising: identity, sense of self, vanity, worldliness, sensuality – or an ethereal, ghostly other-world. For the Lady of Shallott they symbolise her isolation – cursed, she can only see...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | AQA Lit B, IB English, Something Interesting, The Gothic
Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) is usually described as the first gothic novel. What makes it ‘gothic’? It’s set in medieval Italy with a claustrophobic castle, has a melodramatic plot, long-suffering females and uses...
by melaniewp | May 27, 2013 | A-Level English, AQA Lit B, English Language Exam, English Literature Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Rhetoric, Technical Terms, Vocabulary
Get the genius list of language techniques that writers use – also known as rhetoric. Please use with caution! The list is an advanced one for above-A* grades, A-level and University Level. Get a simpler list here for the GCSE language exam, to...
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...
