Chapter 1 Summary: The story begins in an art studio, in which Lord Henry Wotton admires the soon to be finished masterpiece by painter Basil Hallward, of a young man soon learnt to be a portrait of the beautiful Dorian Gray. Henry urges him to exhibit the painting at Grosvenor but Basil detests, insisting he […]

Have you repeated yourself, used a variety of sentence starters? “Yes, I have been ill, very ill, But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad?” ‘The Telltale Heart’, by Edgar Allan Poe is a Gothic short story which explores the mind of […]

Activity one: The Plot Timeline            Add to the timeline by supplying a piece of evidence to support the event that is being described. Sailed into the Arctic: Robert Walton captains a ship sailing into the arctic. – ” I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which […]

Shelley describes a psychological progression of events which perfectly coincides with Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, correctly establishing each of the aspects which make up the hierarchy, as well as the decline if one is unable to attain each subsequent level. Victor is frightened by his creation and leaves the creature, and as a result […]