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Sir Gawain mindmap bundle
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.
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Sir Orfeo mindmap bundle
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: chaos/supernatural, nature, sleep, fairy/otherworld, desire, displacement, and changes from Ovid’s telling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.
Context is grouped into: manuscripts, the Ovidian myth, folklore, and publishing. Critics are on medieval Arthurian literature, the Auchinleck manuscript, and specific.
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Oedipus Rex mindmap bundle
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: fate/prophecy, name, duality, sight, truth, power/determination. Context is grouped into: Aristotle’s Poetics, Thargelia, plot, and legacy. Critics are specific to the play, contextual (relating to Aristotle’s Poetics, and include modern interpretations of Yeats and Camus.
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Song of Solomon mindmap bundle (Bible)
3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all independent research. A literary interpretation of the Biblical Song of Solomon.
Quotes are grouped by themes: reign/kingship, religious devotion, fertility/sexuality, different speakers, nature, beauty/perfection.
Context is grouped into: kingship/rulers, its place in the Bible, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, authorship, biblical depictions of God. Critics are specific to the Song of Songs, and include other critical readings, biblical and classical.
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Masculinity in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
A plan for the question ‘Discuss D. H. Lawrence’s treatment of masculinity in Sons and Lovers AND/OR Women in Love’, using his novel Sons and Lovers.
A university-level (BA English Literature) plan, but can be used for A-level or any other relevant level of work.
Analysis of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
A plan for the question ‘To what extent do you agree with the feminist literary critic Kate Millett that D. H. Lawrence’s work is representative of a ‘phallic consciousness’?’, using his novel Sons and Lovers.
A university-level (BA English Literature) plan, but can be used for A-level or any other relevant level of work.
Psychoanalytical analysis of Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
A plan for the question ‘To what extent can the work of D. H. Lawrence be seen as a manifesto for a move away from a mental toward a bodily way of being?’, using his novel Sons and Lovers.
A university-level (BA English Literature) plan, but can be used for A-level or any other relevant level of work.
Class and Sexuality in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
A plan for the question ‘Discuss the interplay of issues of class and sexuality in the writings of D. H. Lawrence’, using his novel Sons and Lovers.
A university-level (BA English) plan, but can be used for A-level or any other relevant level.
Essay plan: minor characters in King Lear & The Tempest
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.
Human Fulfilment in D.H. Lawrence's novels
A plan for the question ''In D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers the rhythms of love and the rhythms of work are so deeply intertwined that we see in them both the ideal human fulfilment towards which the novel aspires and the tragic failure of that vision.’ Discuss. ', using his novel Sons and Lovers.
A university-level (BA English) plan, but can be used for A-level or any other relevant level.
A* Analysis of Seamus Heaney's Field Work
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.
Essay: Shakespeare's Tragedy Plays
This essay deals with Shakespeare’s tragedy plays, Richard ii, Macbeth, The Tempest, and Hamlet and the theme of improvisation within these.
It answers the question: ‘Those who improvise are the characters who most excite Shakespeare’ (Jonathan Bate). Discuss with reference to AT LEAST TWO works.
Dramatic techniques such as meta-theatricality, Shakespeare’s personification of characters as himself, and the fourth wall are discussed. Also discusses historical constructs of the Great Chain of Being and Divine Right of Kings.
The essay is fully referenced with a MHRA bibliography. Also includes feedback from a professor throughout the essay (in red) - useful for identifying strengths and weaknesses.
Useful for university, A-level, and GCSE students. Includes quotes, analysis, wider historical context, alternative interpretations, and discussion of critics’ quotations. Written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University.
Great Expectations essay plan (A*)
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.
Goblin Market essay plan: faith and doubt
A plan for the question ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’ (Gerard Manley Hopkins). Explore the connection between nature and EITHER religious faith OR doubt OR BOTH in any work(s) of Victorian literature.’
This explores these themes - faith and doubt - in Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’.
A university (BA English Literature) level plan, but can also be used for A-level English and GCSE.
A* Essay: Grief in Seamus Heaney's poetry
An essay on the question ‘Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them’ (Kamila Shamsie). Explore the relation between the living and the dead in the work of ONE OR MORE authors on the module.’
Poems discussed include: The Skunk, The Strand at Lough Beg, A Postcard from North Antrim (Field Work elegies); Punishment, Bog Queen (Bog Poems from North)
This is a university (BA English) essay, but can be used for GCSE and A-level examples, and includes a bibliography and footnotes.
A* Analysis of Owen Sheers' Skirrid Hill poems
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.
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Essay Plan Bundle: Katherine Mansfield
4 in-depth university-level essay plans on Katherine Mansfield’s short stories.
Essay plan themes: gender, psychoanalysis, symbolism, the outsider.
Discusses stories such as The Garden Party, Bliss, Je ne parle pas Francais, and Mansfield’s own autobiographical context.
Written by a Durham University English Literature BA graduate. Ideal resource for A-level and university students.
A* Essay: Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'
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.
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Essay Plan bundle: Virginia Woolf
3 in-depth university-level essay plans, and 1 essay on Virginia Woolf.
Essay plan themes: feeling; impressions and senses; symbolism.
Essay theme: family life.
Includes discussions and analyses of multiple works such as Sketch, To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, and A Room of One’s Own. The essay is fully referenced with a MHRA bibliography.
Written by a Durham University English Literature BA graduate. Ideal resource for A-level and university students.
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Essay Plan Bundle: T.S. Eliot
6 in-depth university-level essay plans on T.S. Eliot’s poetry in response to 6 exam questions.
Essay plan themes: despair, mysticism and spirituality, social change, symbolism, the body and materiality, and voice.
Discusses poems such as Ash Wednesday, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Marina, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets.
Written by a Durham University English Literature BA graduate. Ideal resource for A-level and university students.