Posts in Literature

King Lear- Fairytale or Nightmare?

“King Lear might start like a fairytale but most of it is like a nightmare.” Discuss. Recently,[…]

The Evolution of Storytelling- From Spoken Tales to Printed Pages

“A word after a word after a word is power.” This quote by Margaret Atwood, featured at[…]

Exploring the Tragic Parallels in Oedipus Rex and King Lear

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles are towering works within the Western tragic tradition, both[…]

Romeo and Juliet Coursework (Y10)

Exploring the ways in which different ideas of love are presented in “Romeo and Juliet”. The universal[…]

Modern Drama Coursework (Y10)

Exploring the ways in which Arthur Miller presents Eddie as a tragic hero in ‘A View From[…]

Poetry and Prose Coursework (Y10)

Exploring how the writers of “Still I Rise”, “The Necklace”, and “The Story of an Hour” present[…]