The Critical Essay – Prose, Drama, Poetry, Media

For General Advice on how to tackle the Critical Essay click on the link below.

The Critical Essay – General Advice

 

Websites, essays, notes and information on texts for Higher and Intermediate 2. Click on the links below.

DRAMA

 

 

Click here for notes on Whose Life is it Anyway?

 

Othello - click here

 

Romeo and Juiliet

 

Blood Brothers

 

 

 

PROSE

All Quiet on the Western Front

 

The Kite Runner

Click here for notes on and quotes from 'Heroes' by Robert Cormier.

 
 
 
 
Click here for notes on the short story ‘ Flowers for Algernon’.
  

Click here for notes on Bradbury's short stories 'The Pedestrian' and 'The Murderer'.

 

To read ‘A Sound of Thunder’ by Ray Bradbury, click on the link below:

http://www.scaryforkids.com/a-sound-of-thunder/

 

 

POETRY

War Poetry: 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'Futility' and 'Disbled'

 

Siegried Sassoon

 
 

Notes on 'The Horses' by Edwin Muir

 
 
 

EUGENESIS by William McIlvanney Click here for an annotated copy of the poem

MEDIA

 

GATTACA

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