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 1, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays, Ranch Community
Steinbeck presents the ranch community with a startling degree of realism, dramatising a condition created by the Great Depression of migrant labourers, forced into work communities, with no families. This is summarized in the key quotation at the start of the novel...
by melaniewp | May 31, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Love, Model Essays, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
The love affair of Romeo and Juliet is at the centre of the play against a background of hate, which dominates the Prologue. In this, the ‘star-crossed lovers’ seem tiny and rapidly extinguised in the ‘fearful passage of their death-marked love’. This is young love of...
by melaniewp | May 30, 2013 | Conflict, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Violence
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare portrays love blossoming in the midst of violent conflict at the centre of the feud. The connection is not coincidental; it is essential. This antithesis builds tension, as the Chorus sets up a ‘fearful’, ‘fatal’, ‘death-marked mood’,...
by melaniewp | May 20, 2013 | Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, Model Essays, The Bloody Chamber
“A bloody and frightening tale.” To what extent is this a valid description of the story ‘The Bloody Chamber’?This plan considers the key words in the question in order: ‘bloody’, ‘frightening’, and finally, alternative interpretations.Evidence...
by melaniewp | May 19, 2013 | Edexcel Language Anthology, IGCSE, Model Essays
This answer is based on the Edexcel English Language Anthology Text ‘A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat’, aka donkey racing in Karachi, which is printed here with comments and the Edexcel mark scheme. I’ve put some comments on your answer in...
