The ruined maid - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

A comparative essay exploring the conflict between love and morality in the pre-1900 poetry anthology and The Great Gatsby. Poems referenced include 'A Song (Absent from thee)', 'Whose List to Hount', and 'The Ruined Maid'. Achieved an A* Grade.

Sophisticated A/A* quality notes and analysis for AQA Love Poems pre-1900: Hardy's 'The Ruined Maid', Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 116' and Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty - covering EVERY assessment objective required for A Level English Literature, including key quotations, themes and methods, context and critics! Comparisons are made to other poems in the anthology and to 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and 'The Go-Between'. *Note: Paper 1 Section C question requires comparison of one no...

Essay on Thomas Hardy's poem 'The Ruined Maid' from the AQA A Level Pre-19th Century Love through the Ages poetry anthology. The essay answers the following question: To what extent do you agree that Hardy's attitude is not one of disapproval or disgust towards 'Melia? Uses context, themes, theories, language and structural analysis.

The Great Gatsby chapters 1-5 questions and answers How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the book? He is not a judgmental person allowing us to trust any observations produced by him and we can trust his point of view is non bias. Why has Nick come to the East? To become rich: achieve "the American Dream". This will be accomplished by being in the bond business/ broker. How does Nick describe Tom Buchanan? He is a rich man who loves the spot light. His peak was ...

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