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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.
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.
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.