A* / near full mark essay for English literature comparing ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (Williams) and ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ (Webster). On men and women/gender power struggles which is a central theme needed for any essay for Eduqas/WJEC! Can also be used for AQA/OCR/Edexcel/CCEA/CIE.

A* concise summary mind map of different cultural/literary criticism theories such as postmodernism/new historicism/queer theory etc. Useful for an easy grasp of new theories other than just Marxism/feminism for A-level English literature (Eduqas/WJEC/AQA/OCR/Edexcel/CIE/CCEA)

3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all by independent research. For university, A-level, GCSE students and teaching resources. Quotes are grouped by themes: independence, omissions, marginalisation, religion, love, narrative voice, and gender. Context is grouped into: Victorian readership, publication, politics, religion, praise, and gender. Critics are both contemporary Victorian and modern! For AQA/CIE/Edexcel/Eduqas/WJEC/CCEA. I’m also selling the same format resources for many other texts on my page!

3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all independent research. For university, A-level, GCSE students, and teaching resources. Quotes are grouped by themes: religion, madness, revenge, language, mortality, and the supernatural. Context is grouped into: Hellenistic philosophy, the ghost, Calvinism, Reformation Protestantism vs Catholicism, and genres. Critics are specific to Hamlet and Elizabethan drama. For OCR/AQA/WJEC/CIE/CCEA/Edexcel. I’m also selling the same format resources for many other texts on my page!

Concise but detailed 10-poem bundle. Analysis by an A* student! including language and structure, literary terminology, context behind poems, alternative interpretations, critical quotations and themes/groupings of poems. For WJEC Eduqas A-level English Literature but can be used for any exam board. Includes: Mametz Wood, The Farrier, Drinking with Hitler, The Fishmonger, The Wake, Valentine, Night Windows, Joseph Jones, Inheritance, and Hedge School.

Concise mind map of literary, familial, social context (19th century Victorian era) for A-level English literature Eduqas WJEC. Can also be used for AQA/Edexcel/CIE/OCR/GCSE.

A* Odyssey character list A 10-character list of all the characters in Homer’s Odyssey. Includes genealogy, characteristics, transformations, adventures, treatment by authors, and places appeared in literature. A great quick, easily memorisable overview by an A* student. Perfect for GCSE/A-level/university classics or English literature students.

A plan for the question ‘How do Victorian writers envisage the relationship between childhood experience and adult authority?’, exploring the genre of the bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’ novelGreat Expectations. A Durham first-class university (BA English Literature) level plan, but can also be used for A-level English and GCSE.

This essay plan was created by a second-year English Literature undergraduate at Durham University. It looks at the question: ’Four Quartets is especially concerned with the problem of what it might be to know something. It has its roots in Eliot’s earliest philosophical interests as well as in his Christian conviction and his reading in mysticism’ (Martin Dodsworth). Discuss the presence of philosophical thought AND/OR religious mysticism in Eliot’s later poetry (after 1922). This analyses Eliot’s own Christian beliefs, the mysticism within his writing, and anxiety within his poems. Poems discussed are ‘Animula’ (from the Ariel collection), Marina, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, with mention of The Waste Land and Prufrock.

Essay on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’ on the theme of temptation and desire. It answers the question: ‘Come buy, come buy.’ (Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market). In the light of this quotation, analyse the presentation of desire AND/OR temptation in Victorian literature. The essay breaks down two types of desire: economic desire and greed, and sexual temptation. It discusses religious influences on both works in terms of Anglican Tractarian values, and Judaism, and the portrayal of anti-Semitism in Dracula. It also compares Dracula with the earlier novella by Sheridan Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’. Themes of lesbianism and homosexuality, the Victorian ghost story, Gothic literature, and more, are analysed. Also includes feedback and comments from another literature student. Excellent resource for university and A-level students. Written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University.

A-Z Classical mythology character syllabus A 15-page comprehensive list of all Latin and Greek major and minor characters and gods. From Achilles to Zeus! Page 1 is filled out as an example, with genealogy, characteristics, transformations, adventures, treatment by authors, and places appeared in literature. Great as a learning tool for students looking to learn about mythological figures, classics and English literature GCSE, A-level and university students. Also for AQA/Edexcel/CIE/CCEA/WJEC/OCR.

A 10-character list of all the characters in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Oudipus Tyrannus). Includes characteristics, traits, relationships, and notable actions. A great quick, easily memorisable overview by an A* student. Perfect for GCSE/A-level/university classics or English literature students.

3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all independent research. For university, A-level, GCSE students, and teaching resources. Quotes are grouped by themes: time, love, nature, supernatural, chivalry, religion, appearance, and violence. Context is grouped into: Middle Ages, publishing, tradition, Christianity, and magic. Critics are specific to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and medieval Arthurian literature. I’m also selling the same format resources for many other texts on my page!

Concise but detailed 6-poem bundle. Analysis by an A* student! including language and structure, literary terminology, context behind poems, alternative interpretations, critical quotations and themes/groupings of poems. For WJEC Eduqas A-level English Literature but can be used for any exam board. Includes: An Afterwards, A Drink of Water, The Strand at Lough Beg, A Postcard from North Antrim, A Dream of Jealousy, The Skunk.

An A* essay plan on the question, '‘Minor characters are likely to be skipped over’ (Dennis R. Preston). Discuss the function of AT LEAST TWO minor characters in Shakespeare’s plays.’ This is a university-level (BA English at Durham) plan, but can be used for GCSE and A-level. Characters such as Lear’s Fool, and Ariel and Gonzalo in The Tempest are discussed.

An essay on the question ‘Supposedly a dramatization of the inner life, the dramatic monologue form actually reveals just what a social performance the inner life is.’ Discuss’. This essay analyses the dramatic monologue form in Robert Browning’s poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, using ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Johannes Agricola in Meditation’ to support. This essay is complete with MHRA bibliography and footnotes, and received a 74 (first) grade. Can also be used for GCSE or A-level.

This essay plan was written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University. It looks at the question: ’The ultimate lesson of psychoanalysis is that we are never really ourselves’. Assess the implications of this claim, illustrating your response with reference to ONE OR MORE literary texts of your choice. This analyses Katherine Mansfield’s short story, 'Je ne parle pas français’, using Lacanian and Freudian 20th-century models of psychoanalysis, during the Modernist era. Can be used for university as well as A-level students.

This essay plan was written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University. It looks at the question: Consider the place of ONE OR MORE of the following in AT LEAST TWO stories by Katherine Mansfield: the outsider; sexual adventure; symbolism. This analyses symbolism within Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, ‘Bliss’, ‘Je ne parle pas francais’, and ‘The Garden Party’. Feminine, sexual, and erotic symbolism, and Helene Cixous’ theory of ecriture feminine is looked at. Can be used for university as well as A-level students.