OCR A-level English Literature resources!

This deal includes lots of easily-memorised notes on a wide range of Gothic novels, a comprehensive guide to the Gothic genre for context purposes (AO3), and an intensively detailed compendium of notes on Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories', a popular choice for students of this genre–all to aid OCR A-level Eng. lit. component 2.

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...