A list of 19 shared themes between ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Mrs Dalloway’ with examples for comparison. Particularly useful for the EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature Prose paper.
Themes covered:
Foreignness
Family
Love
Suffering
Religion
Knowledge
Social class
The past
Memory
Women and femininity
Men and masculinity
Setting
Marriage
Time
Reputation
Madness
Death
Communication
Dreams
A character-tracking grid with analysis for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams. Features 4 key scenes for each character and a general summary.
Characters included:
Blanche
Stella
Stanley
Mitch
Allan
Revision notes for movement 1 and movement 2 of ‘Mrs Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf, with an empty grid for students to continue note-making.
Divided by:
Characters
Themes
Symbols
Plot
Context
Key Quotes and Analysis
Notes covering the key features of ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’. Particularly suitable for those studying for the Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature poetry exam.
Covers:
Language features (imagery, allusions, rhetoric, humour etc.)
Structure (use of tricolons, exegesis, interruptions etc.)
Style (traditions, subversions, framing etc.)
Form
Tone
Included:
Debussy - Les Estampes
Familia Valera Miranda - Caña Quema
Anoushka Shankar - Breathing Underwater
For each set work:
8 pieces of further listening
Five features of each further listening piece that relate to the set work
4 works composed before or around the set work’s composition
4 works composed after the set work’s composition
Included:
Vivaldi - Concerto in Dm
Schuman - Piano Trio in Gm
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
For each set work:
8 pieces of further listening
Five features of each further listening piece that relate to the set work
4 works composed before or around the set work’s composition
4 works composed after the set work’s composition
Included:
Danny Elfman - Batman Returns
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
Rachel Portman - The Duchess
For each set work:
8 pieces of further listening
Five features of each further listening piece that relate to the set work
4 works composed before or around the set work’s composition
4 works composed after the set work’s composition
3-4x key scenes analysed plus a general overview for 11 key characters from King Lear.
Characters included:
Albany
Cordelia
Cornwall
Edgar
Edmund
Fool
Gloucester
Goneril/Regan
Kent
Lear
Oswald
A detailed comparative essay plan in response to the statement ‘explore how the authors of your two chosen texts use dreams within their novels’ in relation to ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Mrs Dalloway’.
Suitable for those studying for the Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature prose paper.
Notes and analysis for all of the Poems of the Decade poems prescribed for Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature.
Includes analysis of the title, structure, tone and form, along with a list of themes.
Revision notes for ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ by Chaucer. Suitable particularly for those studying for the Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature poetry paper.
Includes:
Line numbers
Overview
Themes
Language
Form and structure
Contextual ideas
Grid for the Poems of the Decade, as prescribed for the Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature poetry paper.
Includes analysis of:
Title
Narrative style
Themes
Attitude and tone
Graphology
Rhyme and punctuation
Language
Form and structure
2x essay plans, with context and examples from texts, comparing Wuthering Heights and Mrs Dalloway for Edexcel A Level English Literature prose.
No.1: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present foreignness
No.2: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text use dreams within their novels.
2x essay plans, with context and examples from texts, comparing Wuthering Heights and Mrs Dalloway for Edexcel A Level English Literature prose.
No.1: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present love
No.2: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text use settings within their novels.
7x comparative essay plans, with context and examples from texts, for Wuthering Heights and Mrs Dalloway
Included:
No.1: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present foreignness
No.2: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text use dreams within their novels.
No.3: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present love
No.4: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text use settings within their novels.
No.5: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present masculinity
No.6: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text present femininity within their novels.
No.7: Explore how the authors present the influence of the past in your two chosen novels.
A ‘master’ grid for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Registers features of each scene including:
Time
Plot aspects
Themes
Characters
Objects
Lighting and colours
Temperature
Sound volume
Locations
Sounds/music
Clothing
Tone
Gestures/positions/movements
References and allusions
Animals
Notes on the key features of 17 specific eras and genres of music. Related specifically to the set works on the Pearson Edexcel syllabus but useful to any board.
Eras/genres covered:
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Impressionist
Cuban
Indian classical
Gamelan
Suspense films
Jazz
Funk
African tradition
Popular music
20th Century classical
Experimental
Folk
Musique concrète
Spectralism
3x essay plans, with context and examples from texts, comparing Wuthering Heights and Mrs Dalloway for Edexcel A Level English Literature prose.
No.1: Explore how the authors of your two chosen texts present masculinity
No.2: Explore how the authors of your two chosen text femininity within their novels.
No.3: Explore how the authors present the influence of the past in your two chosen novels.
Lists of 8 further listening works for each of the 18 Pearson Edexcel A Level Music set works.
For each one, 4 are from before the set work was published, and 4 from after.