A friend of mine once said, “what good are emotions if all they do is make you weak?”
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Justice in The Merchant of Venice: 3 key ideas (with quotes, analysis & video)
(This post contains a detailed video on the topic.)
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What is an unreliable narrator? Reading Ishiguro & Nabokov to find out
Most of us wouldn’t want unreliable people as friends.
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Comparing love poetry (I): Thomas Hardy’s ‘Neutral Tones’ & Maura Dooley’s ‘Letters from Yorkshire’
(This post contains two detailed videos on the topic.)
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ELECTION SEASON SPECIAL: a rhetorical analysis of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s president-elect speeches
2020’s been a historic year, and to top it all off, it’s culminated in a historic event – the 2020 US Presidential Election, which saw the highest amount of voter turn-out in more than a century.
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What’s the difference between tone, mood & atmosphere?
Many readers think that tone, mood and atmosphere are one and the same.
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Looking at war poetry (II): Wilfred Owen’s ‘Exposure’ and Ted Hughes’ ‘Bayonet Charge’
(This post contains two detailed videos on the topic.)
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The supernatural in Macbeth: 3 key ideas (with quotes, analysis & video)
(This post contains a detailed video on the topic.)
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What’s the difference between symbol & motif?
Symbol, motif and theme – otherwise known as the triumvirate of literary fiction.
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Reading poetry through art (I): W.H. Auden’s ‘Musee des beaux arts’ & William Carlos Williams’ ‘Landscape’
If literature is the peanut butter of culture, then art is the grape jelly that goes with it.
