This Resource is very useful for GCSE, CIE, IB, AQA students preparing for their English Literature Boards. It provides an avenue for critical thinking and application to the analysis of any literary text. Giving a complete understanding of the connections between theme, structure and style, this resource leaves room for more individual interpretation. Although aimed at a high level performance, it can be used as a useful tool at all differentiated levels. It provides substantial examination preparation and sets a high standard for a rewarding examination performance. It shall also stimulate critical thinking and motivate students to work with passion. Additionally, it can help link up Language and Literature on the basis of detailed Language analysis provided, which is required as much in the Language Papers.

This Resource would be useful for GCSE Students to understand the character of Eddie Carbone, a tragic hero in the modern context. It aims to lead the students to display critical thinking and sharpen their analytical skills as they relate to the changing concept of the tragic hero, who, though not a man of exalted stature as in the classical tragedies, is worthy of pity and fear. The downfall of the ordinary man, a longshoreman, in this case, places him in comparison with Macbeth and Hamlet; his tragic flaw being as worthy of contemplation as that of the exalted Shakespearean tragic heroes. This Resource bears relevance to the expected criteria for high level attainment in GCSE, IB, AQA and CIE Curricula. An adequately detailed analysis, it yet, leaves room for the students to integrate more textual evidence, displaying their originality and critical thinking.

This is a valuable Resource for #AQA students following the Anthology based on the theme of love and relationships and is a useful specimen for critical analysis.The detailed steps provided including the TABLE followed by the comprehensively compiled Essay is a rich resource providing the students with a specimen that displays the necessary steps to a thorough understanding of a given poem in terms of form, structure, themes and language usage.