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Bitzer is a pupil at Mr Gradgrind’s school. As we learn in later chapters, he is a bully and is quite offensive to other children. In chapter 2 Gradgrind asks Bitzer for his definition of a horse after Sissy is unable to define it exactly how Gradgrind has taught it. We learn that Bitzer is…

He stopped feeling, and straightened up quickly, holding the hawk in his hand. Fresh tears descended the ragged cliff side of his face, mingled with the dirt on his cheeks, welled up at the bottom of his chin, and dropped as shiny brown globules onto the limp corpse of Kes. Through his blurred and bloodshot…

Hobson’s choice was written in 1914-15 by Harold Brighouse, as a method to raise the morale of troops during the First World War. Many aspects of Brighouses’ unconventional childhood shows through in a lot of characters – Maggie in particular – as he explores many issues that would have occurred in the heart of nineteenth…

One day in the late 1920s, in a crowded studio at the Neighborhood Playhouse on New York’s Lower East Side, Irene Lewisohn asked an assembled group of young performers to improvise on the theme of the Israelites at the Wailing Wall. She was rewarded with an unprecedented display of histrionics – weeping, moaning, a general…

I am going to do a piece of coursework on a comparison of two speeches, one is on Inspector Goole and the other is on Mr Birling. This will include a close analysis of dramatic devices and language feature, but first I will tell you a little bit about the play. The play was set in…

The Flea and Shall I Compare Thee… are very similar but very different poems. They are both about love and seduction but the approach to the common theme is different in both poems. Love and Seduction is the core theme in The Flea, the author Donne is trying to copulate with his mistress and is having…

The ‘Woman in Black’ was written by Susan Hill in 1983, but was first published by Hamish Hamilton in 1983 as a hardback book. Most of the ideas for the ‘Woman in Black’ came from M.R James. In 1989, The ‘Woman in Black’ went onto television as a film thanks to a television writer called…

On the 14th of September the Sexey’s School drama students went to The Fortune Theatre, London and saw the performance of ‘The Woman in Black’. The play was riveting to watch and made the audience scream on more than one occasion; it developed a great sense of tension and created a high level of anxiety…

J.B Priestley wrote the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945 after the Second World War but the play was set before the First World War, in 1912. The play is about poor people getting their own back on the rich like the Birling family and tries to get across the point that every one should…

In ‘Mid-Term Break’ Seamus Heaney writes about a painful memory. Compare this poem with two others from this collection in which poets write about memories. Include one poem by Gillian Clarke and one poem from the Pre-1914 Bank. The painful memory that Seamus Heaney writes about is his brother’s death and funeral and how it…