AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

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The Language of Protest
- Word count: 3137
- Submitted: 15/12/2002
Discuss the theme of Human Dignity in Willis Halls The Long and the Short and the Tall.
- Word count: 3605
- Submitted: 11/07/2002
Compare the ways in which Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy present the theme of death and its implications on life
- Word count: 4344
- Submitted: 24/08/2016
Compare the ways in which Larkin and Duffy present the reality of love.
- Word count: 3319
- Submitted: 17/11/2015
Compare and contrast American playwrights presentation of masculinity in Death of a Salesman, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Glass Menagerie.
- Word count: 3233
- Submitted: 01/04/2014
Twentieth century literature often portrays the relationship between men and women as deeply problematic. By comparing and contrasting three texts by Katherine Mansfield, Harold Pinter and Carol Ann Duffy, discuss to what extent you agree with this view.
- Word count: 3608
- Submitted: 13/02/2013
- Awarding body: OCR (for A-levels)
The Day of the Triffids and Nineteen Eighty Four. A Study Into How Two Different Writers Portray Visions of the Future in a Dystopian Society
- Word count: 3237
- Submitted: 28/01/2013
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable
"How do the authors portray love in their texts?" Macbeth By William Shakespeare, The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats, The Last Duchess by Robert Browning and Porphriya's Lover by Robert Browning
- Word count: 3475
- Submitted: 08/01/2013
- Awarding body: AQA (for GCSEs)
William Shakespeare examined ideas that contributed to the development of modern society, while engaging his past and present audiences.
- Word count: 3286
- Submitted: 17/12/2012
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable
Control, submission and rebellion in the novels The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the film V for Vendetta.
- Word count: 4491
- Submitted: 28/11/2012
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable

AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

The Language of Protest

Discuss the theme of Human Dignity in Willis Halls The Long and the Short and the Tall.

Compare the ways in which Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy present the theme of death and its implications on life

Compare the ways in which Larkin and Duffy present the reality of love.

Compare and contrast American playwrights presentation of masculinity in Death of a Salesman, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Glass Menagerie.

Twentieth century literature often portrays the relationship between men and women as deeply problematic. By comparing and contrasting three texts by Katherine Mansfield, Harold Pinter and Carol Ann Duffy, discuss to what extent you agree with this view.

The Day of the Triffids and Nineteen Eighty Four. A Study Into How Two Different Writers Portray Visions of the Future in a Dystopian Society

"How do the authors portray love in their texts?" Macbeth By William Shakespeare, The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats, The Last Duchess by Robert Browning and Porphriya's Lover by Robert Browning

William Shakespeare examined ideas that contributed to the development of modern society, while engaging his past and present audiences.

Control, submission and rebellion in the novels The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the film V for Vendetta.

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