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A* Odyssey character list
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A* Odyssey character list

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A* Odyssey character list A 10-character list of all the characters in Homer’s Odyssey. Includes genealogy, characteristics, transformations, adventures, treatment by authors, and places appeared in literature. A great quick, easily memorisable overview by an A* student. Perfect for GCSE/A-level/university classics or English literature students.
Model Essay: Dracula and Goblin Market Comparison
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Model Essay: Dracula and Goblin Market Comparison

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Essay on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’ on the theme of temptation and desire. It answers the question: ‘Come buy, come buy.’ (Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market). In the light of this quotation, analyse the presentation of desire AND/OR temptation in Victorian literature. The essay breaks down two types of desire: economic desire and greed, and sexual temptation. It discusses religious influences on both works in terms of Anglican Tractarian values, and Judaism, and the portrayal of anti-Semitism in Dracula. It also compares Dracula with the earlier novella by Sheridan Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’. Themes of lesbianism and homosexuality, the Victorian ghost story, Gothic literature, and more, are analysed. Also includes feedback and comments from another literature student. Excellent resource for university and A-level students. Written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University.
A-level Applied Psychology Studies Summary
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A-level Applied Psychology Studies Summary

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Concise, bullet pointed summary checklist of crime and environment topics for the paper 3 OCR applied/options paper of psychology. Can also be used for AQA/Eduqas/WJEC/Edexcel/CIE. Includes: background, study summary paragraphs, and applications for social/cognitive/biological. Crime: Raine; Hall and Player; Memon and Higham; Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks; Wilson and Kelling; Haney and Zimbardo Environment: Black and Black; Cziesler; Lord; Drews and Doig; Ulrich; Wells Easy to memorise and make notes/build on for revision!
Jane Eyre mindmap bundle
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Jane Eyre mindmap bundle

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3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all by independent research. For university, A-level, GCSE students and teaching resources. Quotes are grouped by themes: independence, omissions, marginalisation, religion, love, narrative voice, and gender. Context is grouped into: Victorian readership, publication, politics, religion, praise, and gender. Critics are both contemporary Victorian and modern! For AQA/CIE/Edexcel/Eduqas/WJEC/CCEA. I’m also selling the same format resources for many other texts on my page!
A* Essay: Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'
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A* Essay: Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'

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An essay on the question ‘Supposedly a dramatization of the inner life, the dramatic monologue form actually reveals just what a social performance the inner life is.’ Discuss’. This essay analyses the dramatic monologue form in Robert Browning’s poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, using ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Johannes Agricola in Meditation’ to support. This essay is complete with MHRA bibliography and footnotes, and received a 74 (first) grade. Can also be used for GCSE or A-level.
Essay Plan: The Duchess of Malfi & the Malcontent
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Essay Plan: The Duchess of Malfi & the Malcontent

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Essay plan on John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi which discusses the figure of the malcontent. It answers the question: ’Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate’ (Louis XIV). Discuss the early modern phenomenon of the ‘malcontent’ with regard to any work(s) you have studied on this module. The plan deals primarily with the character of Bosola. It argues that he plays a role in exposing the corruption of the Amalfi court within the play, using wider historical context of the Jacobean period. Written by a finalist at Durham University. Excellent resource for A-level and university students.
A-level Literary Criticism Mindmap
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A-level Literary Criticism Mindmap

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A* concise summary mind map of different cultural/literary criticism theories such as postmodernism/new historicism/queer theory etc. Useful for an easy grasp of new theories other than just Marxism/feminism for A-level English literature (Eduqas/WJEC/AQA/OCR/Edexcel/CIE/CCEA)
Christina Rossetti Context Mindmap
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Christina Rossetti Context Mindmap

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Concise mind map of literary, familial, social context (19th century Victorian era) for A-level English literature Eduqas WJEC. Can also be used for AQA/Edexcel/CIE/OCR/GCSE.
A* Hamlet mindmap bundle
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A* Hamlet mindmap bundle

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3 A* in-depth mindmaps comprising quotes, critics, and context, all independent research. For university, A-level, GCSE students, and teaching resources. Quotes are grouped by themes: religion, madness, revenge, language, mortality, and the supernatural. Context is grouped into: Hellenistic philosophy, the ghost, Calvinism, Reformation Protestantism vs Catholicism, and genres. Critics are specific to Hamlet and Elizabethan drama. For OCR/AQA/WJEC/CIE/CCEA/Edexcel. I’m also selling the same format resources for many other texts on my page!
A* Analysis of Seamus Heaney's Field Work
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A* Analysis of Seamus Heaney's Field Work

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Concise but detailed 6-poem bundle. Analysis by an A* student! including language and structure, literary terminology, context behind poems, alternative interpretations, critical quotations and themes/groupings of poems. For WJEC Eduqas A-level English Literature but can be used for any exam board. Includes: An Afterwards, A Drink of Water, The Strand at Lough Beg, A Postcard from North Antrim, A Dream of Jealousy, The Skunk.
A* A-level English Streetcar/Malfi Comparison
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A* A-level English Streetcar/Malfi Comparison

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A* / near full mark essay for English literature comparing ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (Williams) and ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ (Webster). On men and women/gender power struggles which is a central theme needed for any essay for Eduqas/WJEC! Can also be used for AQA/OCR/Edexcel/CCEA/CIE.
Bundle: The Duchess of Malfi Essay Plans
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Bundle: The Duchess of Malfi Essay Plans

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6 in-depth university-level essay plans on John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. 1 A* A-level essay comparing A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams) and The Duchess of Malfi on gendered power struggles. Essay plan themes: autonomy; Catholicism; freedom; the Malcontent; transgression; audience identification. Written by a Durham University English Literature BA graduate and A* student. Ideal resource for A-level and university students.
OCR Core Studies A* mindmap summary
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OCR Core Studies A* mindmap summary

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A* A-level complete summary of all psychological areas needed for the OCR H167/G567 core studies exam. Includes 20 studies and aim/method/procedure/results/conclusion (with memorable pictures!) from the developmental, social, cognitive, biological and individual differences areas. Useful for all specifications as many studies overlap - Freud, Bandura, Milgram, Kohlberg, Piliavin etc.
Full Mark A-level Sociology Essay Bundle (family)
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Full Mark A-level Sociology Essay Bundle (family)

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A* bundle of 5 essays for the AS family topic of AQA sociology a-level. 2 20/20 childhood essays, 3 18/20 division of labour/power, theories, explanations for increasing divorce. Can also be used for OCR/CIE/CCEA/WJEC/Eduqas/Edexcel.
Essay Plan: Katherine Mansfield and Symbolism
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Essay Plan: Katherine Mansfield and Symbolism

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This essay plan was written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University. It looks at the question: Consider the place of ONE OR MORE of the following in AT LEAST TWO stories by Katherine Mansfield: the outsider; sexual adventure; symbolism. This analyses symbolism within Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, ‘Bliss’, ‘Je ne parle pas francais’, and ‘The Garden Party’. Feminine, sexual, and erotic symbolism, and Helene Cixous’ theory of ecriture feminine is looked at. Can be used for university as well as A-level students.
Essay: the Court Favourite in Marlowe's 'Edward II'
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Essay: the Court Favourite in Marlowe's 'Edward II'

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This essay was written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University. It answers the question: Gaveston: What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston Than live and be the favourite of a king? Sweet prince, I come. These, these thy amorous lines Might have enforced me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasped upon the sand, So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy arms. (Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, 1.1.1-9) Taking this passage as a starting-point, write an essay on the phenomenon of the ‘court favourite’ in Renaissance literature. It looks at the ‘court favourite’ figure in Marlowe’s play, Edward II, as well as other contemporary Renaissance literature, mythology, religion, and homosocial bonds within the early modern court. Can be used for university and A-level examples.
Essay Plan: T.S. Eliot & Social Change
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Essay Plan: T.S. Eliot & Social Change

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This essay plan was written by a second-year undergraduate student at Durham University. It answers the question: ‘To what extent do the political fears and anxieties associated with social change in the early twentieth century shape the forms and styles of modern writing?’ The plan considers T.S. Eliot’s personal life in shaping his writing in poems like ‘Ash Wednesday’. It also considers the poetic form of ‘The Waste Land’ in the context of post world war anxieties and Modernism. It also addresses poems such as ‘Four Quartets’ , ‘Ash Wednesday’, and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’.
Essay Plan: Richard ii & Edward ii
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Essay Plan: Richard ii & Edward ii

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This essay plan compares Shakespeare’s history play, Richard ii, with Edward Marlowe’s play, Edward ii, in the context of Elizabethan/Jacobean England. It answers the question: Examine any work(s) by Shakespeare in dialogue with any other suitable work(s) of the Elizabethan or Jacobean period. The plan primarily dissects monarchic power and instability, religion, and deposition, comparing the similarities between both plays. Written by a second-year undergraduate at Durham University.
A* A-level Environmental Psychology Summaries
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A* A-level Environmental Psychology Summaries

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A3/A4 summaries for the OCR A2 environmental psychology applied/options section. Useful also for AS and core studies revision for AQA/Edexcel/WJEC Great for students’ revision/lesson plans for quickly going over studies! Involves: 3 background studies, main study, practical applications for biological/social/cognitive. Includes Black and Black, Czeisler, Lord, Drews and Doig, Ulrich, Wells.
A* A-level Sociology Crime mindmaps
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A* A-level Sociology Crime mindmaps

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A-level A2 notes on the topic of crime for AQA but can be used for any OCR/Eduqas/Edexcel/WJEC spec. Includes: ethnicity, gender, class, and corporate crime. Great as a summary before exams!