OCR • English Literature

Erl King notes, brief summary, quotes and themes

Bloody chamber character and theme notes

Quote bank for each character in Frankenstein.

helpful for context when writing a gothic passage or themed question, just gives you an idea of what they are roughly about.

this outlines key gothic tropes and motifs with their definitions that you should look for when analysing gothic passages and when writing themed questions.

This is a rough guide to writing gothic passages, it outlines which order to write your paragraphs in and what to look for in the gothic passages. this is from a student who got 30/30 in the gothic passage.

This is a detailed time line that identifies that different stages of Gothic literature. It gives the dates, examples of books from these eras and the authors while also giving some context around the different stages. really useful for introductions of comparative gothic essays to show wider reading.

This outlines lots of the techniques that you can identify in a Hamlet part a passage question. helps you to understand what the technique is and some have examples of what that could look like in Hamlet. For those struggling to get their marks into the top band this can be useful

This is a colour coded character break down of appearance and events in Hamlet, it is made chronologically. it helps give an overview of the play and what happen and highlights the key events within the play.

This is an extensive groups of summaries of critical interpretations that can be used. They are broken down into Author and theme. They give a brief description of what the interpretation is about and some have quotes as well.