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...
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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.
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?
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.
What makes a good A Level Paper 1 Unseen Essay? (9509/01 and 8832/01)
Deconstructing the "policy-speak" of the H1 and H2 Literature syllabus documents.
How To Appropriately Identify Diction as a Literary Device for Analysis?
Thinking of slapping "diction" as a literary device into your analysis? Think again.
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?
Simplify the Text
How do I clarify my understanding of the text? Sometimes, less is more.
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