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 | Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, English Literature Exam, The Gothic
Exam Questions for the set texts in Elements of the Gothic for the AQA Lit B English Literature Exam Section A.The Bloody ChamberWith reference to at least two stories, explore the significance of the natural world in The Bloody Chamber.‘She smiled at herself in...
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 20, 2013 | Edexcel, English Literature Exam, Of Mice and Men
How can I Revise for the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Exam? What questions are likely to come up?I can’t access the actual questions from the past two years as I’m not at a centre (they’re password protected). The best I can advise is for you to...
by melaniewp | May 19, 2013 | Cambridge, English Literature Exam, IGCSE, Shakespeare, The Tempest
In the exam on The Tempest, you will be given a choice of questions about a specific character, a theme or an extract. For the character question, you need to have good understanding of that character including: their relationships with the others – the...
