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The death of Victor’s mother was due to self-sacrifice whilst nursing Elizabeth with scarlet fever. This left Victor in a single- parented family; something that many families today are facing. Victor develops an un-natural obsession with his mother, often referred to as the ‘Oedipus Complex’, and he continues this worship even after she has died….

‘A kestrel for a knave’ was written in the 1960s when single mothers especially in the working class society such as Mrs Casper, were looked down upon. Billy, her son went to a secondary modern school where education was seen as unimportant and so he did not get much motivation from school or family to…

In the novel, Dickens presents education in a very old fashioned way. Thomas Gradgrind is obsessed with teaching just facts and that people must not use their imagination. He has a school run by Mr M’Choakumchild. Mr. Gradgrind, whose voice is ‘dictatorial’, opens the novel by stating ‘Now, what I want is facts’ at his…

Oliver Twist, perhaps Charles Dickens’ most famous book, was written by the Portsmouth-born author in 1838, a time of turbulent change in Britain, with industrialisation creating both new heights of wealth and new depths of poverty. While the upper classes lavished in their newfound riches, the poor languished in squalor. Oliver, Dickens’ unfortunate hero, is…

During Jonathan’s stay in Transylvania, Dracula comes across as a threatening character. He says to Jonathan, “be warned! “, the exclamation marks suggests that he means what he says. Dracula warns Jonathan about wandering around his castle and hope to scare Jonathan into not venturing any further than his own room. Bram stoker is continuing…

Of Mice and Men is a novel written in 1937 by an author called John Steinbeck, a rising novelist after other successes as “Tortilla Flat” and “Dubious Battle”. The focus of these books as well as “Of Mice and Men” is of the migrant workers. “Of Mice and Men” is set during the height of…

The extract I am studying is from pages 69 to 80, where the men are trying to convince Candy that his dog should be shot. This is a significant scene, as although the reader does not know yet, it is foreshadowing the death of Lennie at the end of the book. A good way that…

It is only in the latter half of the twentieth century that Dracula has begun to receive serious critical attention instead of being dismissed as lightweight sensationalist Victorian popular fiction. It has become apparent that the novel is not simply a conventional work of Gothic horror but, as with its contemporaries Dr. Jekyll and Mr….

‘Dracula” adapted by David Calcutt from the novel by Bram Stoker, is a compelling and dramatic play which conveys horror extremely well. The central characters are Jonathan Harker, his fiancee Mina and their friends, and of course Dracula. This shows an example of successful horror as they all have an encounter with the lord of…

Famous writer, Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797. She was the daughter of writer William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley’s mother sadly died while giving birth to her. This was an influence included in the later successful novel ‘Frankenstein’. At 19, she married poet Percy Shelley, who she married in 1816. Together, Mary…