Tag: AS Level
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About the Preface
If you have bought your own copy of AMFAS, you will notice, in those pages you must’ve wonderfully skipped over, that there is a Preface. And not just any Preface, a Preface written by the author. The Preface handles everything your teachers will; it notes on Robert Bolt’s life and other dramas he’s written; his…
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Outline of The White Tiger: Night 1, 2 and The Fourth Morning
This post will help you make in depth personal notes on the first three letters in The White Tiger
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rewashed: Drama Homework on the Significance of Language and the Design of the House
0 Ama Ata Aidoo’s “The Dilemma of a Ghost” tells the story of Ato and Eulalie’s struggles with the cultural divide within their marriage. The conflict’s backbone rests squarely on the shoulders of Ato’s family’s traditions, taboos, and their battle with modernity. As I read the play, two clear divides jumped out at me:…
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General Outline of The Dilemma of a Ghost
Prelude Bird of the Wayside Sweet Nothings on the Eve of Graduation Act One All Work and No Pay Is Not the Way Family Reunion Since WHEN??? Hurere the Amrikan Let Us Start Weeping Act Two The Profit of Childbearing Eulalie’s Monologue The False Witch Hunt Act Three The Ghost Boys Abre (the men are…
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Poetry Slam Fridays: Sonnet 31
Hello all! Miss me? This week we begin our sequence of Sonnets from everyone in Songs of Ourselves. This week, we’re visiting the obsessive, the loving, the smothering Sir Philip Sidney! Yes, I’m talking about the author of Astrophel and Stella. Fortunately, we are not reviewing the ahem, creepy songs and sonnets of Astrophel. No, we’re swirling in…
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Poetry Slam Fridays: What thing is love?
Ah, who could ever truly describe what love is? Our good friend (who’s hosting this par-tay today) George Peele thought he could. Alas, in his drunken dribble he only achieved the truth that love is tangible, love is a thing. Other than this, he never seemed to answer his own question: What thing is love?…
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Lines You’ll Die For: A Man for all Seasons
In some of my better essays, I use anywhere from 5 to 15 relevant quotes from the work I’m talking about. This, at AS/A level is invaluable to earning higher marks. But people often ask, ‘Which quotes are relevant?” Relevant means ‘having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand’ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). If your…
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