“There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of the world inhabit it…but not for long.”Tim Burton is an acclaimed director, known for his dark and eccentric style and classic gothic atmosphere. “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet […]

“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” – RW pg 2 “What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?” -RW pg 134  “One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement […]

Analyse how the strengths and/ or weaknesses of one or more characters reinforced a message. Strengths and Weaknesses Message Evidence Character Weakness: VFDangerously acquires knowledge + pushing the limits of nature due to his need to know Obtaining knowledge which the human frame cannot acquire will mess with the balance of life. “One secret which […]

Produce an essay of fluent and coherent writing which develops, sustains and structures ideas and commands attention. Tim Burton has a very defined style as a director. Analyse how he uses visual and/or verbal features across two or more of his films to fulfil the common conventions of Gothic fiction. Gothic conventions/ elements  are represented […]

“I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That’s how I signed his book.” “The Witch”, a 2015 horror film directed by Robert Eggers, is set in 1630s New England, when a Puritan family is banished from their colonial settlement and forced […]

“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.” “Masque of the Red Death” is a Gothic short story written by […]