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Much Ado About Nothing is a play about love, relationships, truth and illusion, reality and disguise, trickery, deception, male honor and female virtue, and villainy. This play set in Messina, Sicily and is based around about the contrasting relationships of two couples – the witty and unconventional couple of Benedick and Beatrice, who are described…

Romeo and Juliet is an Elizabethan tragedy set in the Italian city of Verona, written by Shakespeare around 1591 and is one of the most famous plays of the time. In Act 1 Scene 5, the Lord Capulet is throwing a party in order for his daughter, Juliet, to fall in love with a man…

Through the play, Juliet’s treatment by Romeo and father can be quite surprising and ambivalent. Shakespeare portrays this by the use of language and different actions they use towards Juliet. Her father, Lord Capulet comes across as a considerate and concerned father. Shakespeare shows the audience this caring nature towards Juliet in the first act…

‘Exposure’ is a poem written by a World War I poet Wilfred Owen. The title is a summary of how soldiers are mentally stripped of human dignity because they are exposed to the elements of war. Owen uses a range of techniques and uses specific language to describe the horrific conditions these soldiers were fighting….

Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Disabled’ is about the experience of war on the common soldier. War leaves soldiers mentally and physically disabled. Men go to war feeling brave and nationalistic but come back mentally scarred due to the brutality of war. This is revealed by Owen’s use of repetition about blood-shed and the consequences of war…

On another part of the island, Trinculo and Stephano are busy getting drunk and introducing alcohol to the clueless Caliban, which creates humour in the scene. Stephano manipulates Caliban, who then volunteers to be a slave to Stephano, rather than Prospero. Ariel enters in an invisible form as Caliban reveals his plan for Stephano to…

How does Shakespeare present the use and abuse of power in ‘The Tempest’? Comment on the use of language, ideas and stagecraft. Elizabethan society’s understanding of colonisation and natives is reflected in the play ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare. Elizabethan’s were very positive towards colonisation and the idea of usurpation, and were neither very knowledgeable when…

This essay depicts the characteristics of Fagin, a key character in Charles Dickens’s legendary novel ‘Oliver Twist’. Dickens wrote this book in the eighteen hundreds and gives a clear portrayal of life in the Victorian era, and how many people struggled to cope with poverty, desperation and crime. The story revolves around a small boy,…

Chapter 1 ‘One thing needful’ starts the book off by introducing Mr Gradgrind’s character. The Chapter is set in the local school of Coketown; a small mining town. Set in the 1800’s this book was first published in 1854. Some say this book reflected dickens own childhood more than fiction, much like ‘David Copperfield’. Charles…

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…