In Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights, narrative voice is used to uncover the plight of the impoverished, or those of a...

In Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte present women’s attempt to find happiness as...

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, metatheatre is presented as a conscious centralisation of action, embodying the blurring of boundaries between...

In Hamlet, Shakespeare presents Claudius as the Machiavellian archetype: a pragmatic but corrupt monarch figure – and blurs the lines...

Both Doshi and Copus explore the relationship between a mother and child in relation to parental love and protection, or the absence of...

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Cathy’s relationship is presented as almost-symbiotic – both of their existence necessary for the...

In Act 1, Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, several significant dramatic elements are founded, which set up the ‘revenge plot’ of the...

In Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the theme of manipulation is explored through several means, including that of...

In ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’ and ‘The Canonization’, Donne combines intellect and emotion to elevate his relationship above...

‘Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is deformed, though not obliterated, by his distrust of all women because of his disillusionment with his...