Themes: Parent/Child Relationship, Love, Loss Type: Free Verse Background Written by Alice Walker – awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Colour Purple) The poet wrote this poem at an age where most people face a new phase in life This poem is partly about the sadness at the loss of a father and the regrets…
Theme – Birth and Death & Powerful Imagery Type – Dramatic Monologue Background – Written by Louis MacNeice – written during WWII Form and Tone The title tells us that it is a prayer and reads like an incantation The tone is apocalyptic, expressing foreboding about the menace of modern living The child’s prayer is…
Themes Inspirational/ Motivational/ Aspirations Type Dramatic Monologue Links Mother in a Refugee Camp – Courage Do Not Go Gentle – Courage/exhortation (encourage to fight) My Last Duchess – Dramatic Monologue Background Written by Rudyard Kipling and was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature Work based on his knowledge of the Middle East The…
Mark Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River” delves into the changes in attitude he experiences concerning the river after becoming a steamboat pilot. Essentially, once he gains knowledge and life experiences, he begins to take the beauty of the river for granted and loses his love of it. Mark Twain explains how something beautiful…
Considering making a major life change to turn dreams of the future into reality may require sacrifices, a degree of independence which might lead to isolation, and a certain amount of time. Often a fear of sacrifice, isolation, and the passage of time lead individuals to ignore their dreams and pursue a more attainable route…
The word democracy is coined from the Greek words demos (people) and kratos (rule), literally meaning ‘rule of the people.’ Democracy is mainly used as a political system, and therefore becomes important to define accurately, as many countries claim to be a democracy. For example, both Iran and America declare their electoral process and government…
Ghost: “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ Now wears his crown.” (1.5.776-77) The fact that Claudius killed the King by pouring poison into his ear while he was asleep was revealed to Hamlet in the very first Act of the play. The only ones who initially know of this are Hamlet and the…
INTRODUCTION The cell membrane surrounds the cell and is responsible for the regulation of substances within the cell. There are many processes in which substances can travel through the membrane, one being osmosis. Osmosis is a form of passive transport (no energy required) and is a type of diffusion in liquid substances. It is the…
There were nearly 5000 items found in the King Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter at KV62 (Kings’ Valley site 62). Some examples of those items were: Statue of Anubis: The statue of Anubis was found in King Tut’s tomb by Howard Carter. The statue is of the god Anubis, a human with a…
Introduction Palm Oil is a vegetable oil extracted from oil palm trees. Its scientific name is Elaeis guineensis Jacq. Palm Oil grows best in tropical climates with rich water. One of the main locations for Palm oil production is in Indonesia and Malaysia. There are two types of palm oil. One of them is Crude…
Rationale Photosynthesis represented by the equation 6H2O + 6CO2 → C6H12O6 + 6O2 is one of the most crucial chemical reactions on earth as it produces O2 molecules– a gas vital to the survival of many organisms (Vidyasagar, 2018) This process takes place during the light dependent phase of photosynthesis and is indicated by the…
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Famous for his deduction skills, he is an esoteric character, this making him more entertaining as the readers try to guess what his next steps will be. During the Victorian era, which is when the Sherlock Holmes stories were written, the Metropolitan…
Quote Analysis “The Modern Prometheus” -Titan in Greek mythology (semi-God) – Zeus said that humans should not have fire – it was only for God -Prometheus went to Mount Olympus and stole some fire – thought it was unfair and gave it to humans – Zeus devised a punishment for Prometheus- chained to a rock…
Character + scene Quote Analysis Horatio 1.1.68 “this bodes some strange eruption to our state” Horatio says this after seeing the ghost Foreshadows unnatural disturbance and corruption to come Hamlet 1.2.76 ‘seems’, madam – nay it is” Reveals his grief His grief and mistrust of others as he feels he’s the only one grieving the…
Williams presents masculinity in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by presenting the violent nature of Stanley in comparison to Blanche as well as how this nature leads to the destruction of Blanche and symbolically the old south. From the start of the play, the characters of Stanley and Blanche are presented as polar opposites with Blanche…
Although Henry VII’s claim to the throne was weak and he faced many dynastic threats due to pretenders and potential Yorkist claimants, he managed to keep his position secure as he was a clever king who consolidated his power right after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 as well as exploiting economic policies to have…
The “to be or not to be” soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1 is significant in showing Hamlet’s tragic flaw; his inability to decide and inability to take action. The main purpose of this soliloquy is to establish Hamlet as a characteristically reflective, analytic and moral character which leads on to his tragic fall. In…
To some extent there was a Mid Tudor Crisis between 1547 to 1558 but arguably the crisis was not mainly due to the Mid Tudors- Edward VI and Mary I but due to long term problems left over by Henry VIII. He left the government with huge sums of debt as well as an unstable…
Shakespeare presents Hamlet’s and Gertrude’s relationship as a crucial factor for the plot of the play. Gertrude is vital in fuelling Hamlet’s hatred of women as well as his drive for revenge. Her remarriage also causes Hamlet to sink into melancholy as Bradley states it provided a ‘violent shock to his moral being’. Gertrude’s remarriage…
Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship is very complicated, and many critics have questioned whether Hamlet genuinely loved Ophelia. Hamlet genuinely loved her before his father’s death, and this is shown by the love letters they have from before. However, after Hamlet’s father’s death, he develops trust issues and resentment especially towards women after his mother’s haste…
