OCR • English Literature

## Hamlet — Comprehensive Revision & Analysis Guide A detailed, exam-focused *Hamlet* revision resource covering the play's key characters, acts, quotations, themes and critical interpretations. ### What's included: * **AO2-focused analysis** — detailed analysis of Shakespeare's use of language, form and structure * **AO5-focused analysis** — different critical interpretations and perspectives on *Hamlet* * **Character Overview** — key characters, their roles, relationships an...

Mrs Dalloway is a challenging and highly rewarding text, and the first modernist narrative using the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique written from a feminist perspective. The novel repays repeated readings, as it reveals more with each return, and its meaning is open to multiple interpretations, making it perfect for A Level study.

Essay plans for multiple past questions in OCR English paper 2, hits all the different assessment criteria. Comparing the dystopian texts 'A Handmaid's Tale', '1984', and 'A Brave New World'.

Document containing textual quotes separated by dystopian themes in order to easily compare the texts in Section B part of OCR English paper 2. Also includes critical quotes to use for the texts.

These are in depth essay plans to compare Ibsen's 'A Dolls House' and Rossetti's 'Selected Poems', aiming to hit all the different assessment criteria.

A useful summary document of quotes from both texts, critics and context to use in OCR English paper 1 section C.

Essay plans for many past questions from OCR section B Hamlet questions, hitting each of the different assessment criteria AO1 (knowledge of the play and quotations) and AO5 (critics and performances).

This document includes key quotations from the play 'Hamlet' separated by theme making it easy to bring into essays, as well as names critics through time and different play and film interpretations. This is aimed for the OCR a-level board as it aims to hit the AO1 and AO5 marks for the section B essays in paper 1.

This revision guide contains a collection of comprehensive, essay-ready comparative paragraphs for OCR A-Level English Literature Comparative and contextual study. The texts compared are Dracula and The Bloody Chamber and Other stories, with a focus on main themes and ideas within each, including marriage, haunted settings, gender, double standards, duality, the monstrous feminine, transformation, sexuality, and violence. This document explores how these concepts are explored by Stoker and Carte...

Literary devices which you may not be aware of which are extremely impressive to include in an unseen literature essay. Easy marks by introducing these in an essay. Perfect pre-exam as it is easy to remember and jogs memory before hand

70+ critical comments on each character and theme - perfect for comparing books A grade a-level students notes, perfect for essay planning etc. Perfrct for memorisation

This resource contains a collection of high-quality, essay-ready comparative paragraphs for OCR A-Level English Literature, comparing She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith with Christina Rossetti's poems Goblin Market, Shut Out, and Maude Clare. The paragraphs are designed to be adapted into exam essays and provide detailed comparative analysis supported by contextual knowledge, critical interpretations, and close language analysis. It covers AO1, AO3, AO4, and AO5 and is designed to aid ...

Grade A* A-Level English Literature comparative essay exploring the presentation of forbidden desire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. This essay examines how both writers use Gothic conventions such as female sexuality, patriarchy, the ‘Other’, and fear of the unknown to present contrasting attitudes towards desire and repression. Includes detailed textual analysis, contextual links, and critical interpretations, making it a useful mode...

This document provides many extensively detailed notes on Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber', which I studied for my OCR A-level English Literature exam for the comparative essay in component 2: comparative and contextual study. The document focuses on the six main stories of 'The Bloody Chamber': the titular 'The Bloody Chamber', 'The Werewolf', 'The Company of Wolves', 'The Erl-King', 'The Lady of the House of Love', and 'Snow-Child'. Each short story is accompanied by a synopsis, its mean...

This document consists of an impressive amount of extensive notes on the Gothic genre, tailored to Component 2 of A-level OCR English Literature: comparative and contextual study. It is the perfect context document for this second exam, feeding both the Gothic unseen extract portion and the comparative essay. Thorough knowledge of the Gothic genre is integral to the exam and the A-level as a whole; examiners are not just looking for people who check the boxes and understand how the genre has e...

In this document, I have organised my research of Gothic novels into the concept which they exhibit as well as their publication date, which is useful in discussing influence of other Gothic texts in the Comparative and Contextual essay, as well as serving for the context portion of the Gothic unseen essay. Knowledge of the Gothic genre is integral to the OCR A-level in English Literature, and what examiners are looking for is a thorough knowledge of the genre. Simply naming books is okay, b...

This document is a compilation of detailed context notes that I have gathered throughout my study of the OCR A-level English Literature course throughout years 12 and 13 for Component 1, Drama and Poetry Pre-1900. My class studied Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' and Rossetti's 'Collected Poems'. Given that context (AO3) is the bulk of the mark scheme for this essay, 50%, it is incredibly integral to the A-level overall. Memorisation of these context notes, as well as practiced assimilation into ess...

The desires of characters in the Duchess of Malfi and Paradise Lost and how audiences receive them

Characters of the Duchess of Malfi and paradise lost conforming to traditional gender roles

30/30 exemplar, content can be adapted to many different essay topics