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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: How setting creates atmosphere and expectation. Mr. Utterson reflected; and then, raising his head, “If you will come with me in my cab,” he said,… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Analysis : The use of Setting after the murder of Carew Danvers.
This chapter relates the last sighting of Dr Jekyll alive by his friend Gabriel Utterson. It is especially fascinating to me, because of the way Stevenson presents Jekyll partially transforming… Read More »Incident at the Window Analysis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton
What do you think the ‘story’ might be from these examples? Give each one a rating out of TEN and explain why. Remember the more you recognise the effects that… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester: How to create a compelling opening.
Here’s my analysis of the murder of Sir Carew Danvers in Robert Louis Stevensons’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde– much debated ( and contested) with my GCSE English students! Nearly… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : The Carew Murder Case analysis of Extract-GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester
Sometimes students worry about attaining depth in their creative and analytical writing. They feel their understanding of character, in particular, may remain quite conventional or superficial and that this undermines… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE Analysis SECRETS-” I am naturally helpless.” (English Tuition Bolton)
Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4: How is the relationship been Macbeth and his wife presented? (Select which word fits your interpretation most effectively). The extract opens with Lady Macbeth… Read More »GCSE English Literature Bolton, Manchester: Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 Analysis!
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Suspense: How do you analyse suspense in an extract? (GCSE English) Here are a few questions that produce stimulating answers to any question about suspense or tension. Remember suspense is… Read More »Suspense: How do you analyse suspense in an extract? (GCSE English Language and Literature -Private English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Utterson’s Dream Analysis-Where is Hyde’s face hiding? GCSE English Literature Bolton Manchester
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Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole. “Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?” he cried;… Read More »The Last Night Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Analysis of Suspense: GCSE English Literature Bolton Tuition
In my last post I talked about the way a simile used by the protagonist, Edmund Hooper reveals a great deal about his psychological character. Our metaphors and similes give… Read More »GCSE English Language tuition Bolton: Susan Hill’s I’m the King of the Castle Two!
GCSE English Language students have looked at the opening to Susan Hill’s chilling novel, I’m the King of the Castle recently. The novel makes readers think about their expectations and… Read More »GCSE English Language : Analysis- Tips ‘I’m the King of the Castle’ by Susan Hill.
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‘It was a cold grey day in late November.’ Thus begins Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. The dismal declaration of the weather foreshadows the uneasy tension surrounding the protagonist’s future… Read More »AQA GCSE Jamaica Inn Du Maurier: How the weather shapes the reader’s expectations.
“Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! “But ranged as infantry, And staring face… Read More »The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy: Analysis GCSE English Literature Bolton Tuition
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. Ruth Rendell’s thriller A Judgement in Stone opens with a devastating clarity. We are in no… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: A perfect opening line by Ruth Rendell?
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