
English 3.4 Handmaids Tale
Statement: Various biblical allusions in The Handmaid’s Tale show the insignificance of women in Gilead. No control, no nothing, not a thing. The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead. Gilead is run …

English 3.4 planning – Handmaids Tale
I want to do something to do with social classes and women’s place in society. Statement: Different themes in the handmaid’s tale show the social insignificance of women. How do control of thought, sexuality and …

Reading log 6 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. “Many authors use the idea of pushing our boundaries to an extreme and Robert Louis Davidson is no exception in his novel ‘The strange …

Wide reading 5 – The black cat
“I turned and put the knife’s point deep into her heart! She fell to the floor and died without a sound.” The black cat is a gothic short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. This …

Wide Reading Log – 4
Novel: Silence of the lambs, he’s an antagonist “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” This quote comes from the twisted gothic novel ‘Silence of the lambs’. In this novel, …

2.5 Speaking Assessment
Topic: We should have limits on scientific exploration. We are falling into the darkness without knowing what lies beneath. Scientific exploration is a widely debated subject. Should we have limits? Shouldn’t we have limits? How …

My Frankenstein Quotes
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought…” “I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with …

Frankenstein homework
To what extend do I think Shelley achieved this original goal? I busied myself to think of a story… One which would speak to the Mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror I …

Frankenstein study
The moral obligation of being human The moral obligation of being human = right and wrong, ethics we should follow/obey moral – a set of personal and collective beliefs Victor ignores his morals to create …

Level 2 Writing Portfolio Task 2 – Film
Tim Burton has a very defined style as a director. Analyse how he uses visual and/or verbal features across at least two of his texts to fulfil the common conventions of gothic fiction. Tim Burton …