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 4, 2013 | AQA, Edexcel Language Anthology, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, My Last Duchess, Poetry, Robert Browning
How does the writer present the character of the Duke?+ get an example of creative writing based on ‘My Last Duchess’ (GCSE creative writing controlled assessment) hereThe Duke narrates this dramatic monologue, whose topic seems at first to be his antique...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare
Which texts are you studying?Macbeth’Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.’Othello’O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’Romeo and...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, Sonnets
A* Model Essays+ Sonnet 116 Analysis Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (900 words)+ Sonnet 129 Analysis The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame and Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever (1,500 words)Original Sonnet plus...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, Sonnet 129, Sonnet 147, Sonnets
Compare the ways in which Shakespeare presents attitudes to love in Sonnets 129 and Sonnet 147.The English Sonnet in the Shakespearean period typically takes love as its topic. Wyatt’s renditions of the famous Petrarchan modes are of love at a distance, where the...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare, Sonnet 147, Sonnets
Ever had a love affair that didn’t go the way you wanted? If you’ve ever been obsessed, cheated on, felt like you couldn’t go on, then you might enjoy this. It’s one of the very last poems Shakespeare wrote to his lover, the Dark Lady of the...
