Critical Analysis

IB Lang Lit SL/HL Paper 2 Comparative Essay: Journey

A critical commentary responding to a IB Lang Lit Paper 2 prompt comparing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll...

A Fowl Take: 2022 A Levels' H2 Unseen Poetry Comparison (Nature)

A critical commentary on the portrayal of nature in Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" and Judith Wright's "Pelicans".

Let’s Talk Balls: Music and Dance in Pride & Prejudice

Music and dance are pertinent motifs throughout Jane Austen’s novels. Beyond reflecting the social conventions and reality of the Regency...

Pride and Prejudice: The Marriage Matrix (A Peek into our Sample Lesson!)

Key insights on problematising love and marriage in Pride and Prejudice from our complimentary open class held on May 2023.

[GP x Lit] Who's Afraid of the Unnatural? Society/Politics, Frankenstein, Technology.

Through Frankenstein and real world contexts, we will be examining how the rhetoric/fallacy of reducing the "unnatural" to the "other"...

Music & Culture in Playing for Time by Arthur Miller: A Contextual Understanding

Why were the Nazis (as reflected in Arthur Miller's Playing for Time) so obsessed with Germanic and European music? It may have to do with t

Human Fears of Reality and Honesty (Mind and Self) | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Illusion and Reality: What's the difference? How do we move forward from the seductive lies of illusions?

Modernist Elegy | The Great Gatsby

In this article, we will explore the intersections of modernism, absurdity and the thematic concerns of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott...

Lookism: Appearance and Ugliness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Why is Frankenstein's creature ugly? Is he even ugly? What does his "ugliness" mean?

Mind and Self: A Tale of Misguided Self-Actualisation in Inventing Anna

Applying the "mind and self" angle of H2 Literature to Inventing Anna: Self-deception, deceptive appearances and self-actualisation.

Mind and Self: Modernist Rage of Sylvia Plath's Ariel (Critical Contexts of Ariel)

Plath's poetry is not merely confessional or intimately personal. It is also culturally significant.

Ignoring Literary Contexts? Think again.

Studying literary contexts is more important than you think. Find out why by reading this article!

Motif and Theme: What's the difference?

The more appropriate question: What is the relationship between motif and theme?

Stay tuned for our next article and open class!