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The Role of the Narrator in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (GCSE English)
In this blog, our expert tutor and resident Christmas Carol enthusiast, Ben Huntley, explores how Charles Dickens uses the narrator’s voice to guide the reader through his timeless classic. Ben will teach you how to analyse narrator voice to demonstrate your understanding of the text and achieve top marks in your English Literature GCSE exam.
Elizabethan Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (GCSE English)
In this blog, a Shakespeare specialist and expert tutor breaks down what the Elizabethans actually believed about fairies. By understanding this fascinating context, you can deepen your analysis and gain extra AO3 marks in your GCSE English Literature exam.
Shakespeare Context and The Great Chain of Being (GCSE English)
In this blog, an expert tutor and PhD student in Shakespeare at the University of Warwick provides a clear overview of Tillyard’s ideas and explains how they can help you analyse Shakespeare in your exams.
How to Write a First-Class University Essay
This blog, written by a final-year PhD researcher and experienced undergraduate seminar tutor at King’s College London, unpacks how to write a strong and well-structured university essay that can achieve a first-class mark.
Shakespeare’s Problem Plays (GCSE English)
In this blog, a Shakespeare specialist explains what makes a play “problematic” and how The Merchant of Venice—alongside works like Measure for Measure—forces audiences to wrestle with issues of justice, mercy, prejudice, and power. By the end, you’ll see how recognising its “problem play” status can help you achieve higher marks by showing a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s ambiguous moral vision and subversion of Elizabethan values. Whether you are studying with AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Eduqas, this blog will help you to impress your examiner with developed analysis and detailed subject knowledge.
Why have GCSE English grades concerningly dropped?
And how can you help your child buck the trend? GCSE results day can be a very worrisome time! Students and parents naturally want to see that all their hard work and dedication has paid off, secure in the knowledge that they’ve achieved the next stage in their education and development.
Revising for English Language GCSE
A surprisingly stubborn cliché is the claim that, unlike maths or science, revising for your English language GCSE is impossible. In this short article, expert tutors at Humanitas Learning share six top tips for GCSE English language revision.