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The Significance of Secrecy in Macbeth

An analysis of the importance of secrecy to the plot of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth.

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Reading Books – a Wonderful Pastime

A short school essay which I wrote for an English lesson on the ninth grade at school in Finland.

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A Compelling View Into The Novel Along Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”

A critical review on the story A long way gone- memoirs of a boy soldier
by Ishmael Beah.

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Oedipus and Blindness

An analysis of the use of literal and metaphorical blindness in Sophocles’ tragic plays Oedipus and Oedipus Rex.

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A Modern Twitch

An illusory extract from: A Modern Twitch by I.C Plumes.

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Is Literature a Mirror or a Glass to Humans and Society?

The Cambridge dictionary1 defines the word “novel” a long printed story about imaginary characters and events. George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm2 fits in this definition, because as the animal characters represent real people.

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A Companion Essay to The Novel to Kill a Mockingbird

Non-nuclear or above average?

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Commentary on The Last Chapter of The House of The Spirits, by Allende

This commentary explores Allende’s use of the final chapter in her novel, The House of the Spirits, and how it works to tie the story together, and present some of the thematic intricacies of the work.

This is an example of a perfect-score world lit two paper for the International Baccalaureate program. For students writing English HL this year, it would provide a good strategic starting point, and a good example of where to aim a key passage assignment.

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Comparitive Analysis of Antigone, by Sophocles, and a Doll’s House, by Ibsen

This discourse analyzes the similarities in themes between two influential plays. The concepts explored in this paper focus on the presentation of justice as perceived by two authors in drastically different circumstances, as well as the role and place of women in their work.

This is a perfect score world lit one for the International Baccalaureate program, written on the plays "Antigone" and "A Doll"s House’, it might provide some good strategies for any IB student taking this class, and it’s also an example of an integrative writing format, one that generally scores higher than a separated analysis.

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Of Mice and Men Essay – Dreams

This is my essay on "Of Mice and Men"

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