Critical Analysis

  • Belonging in a Dystopia

    Dystopian Literature depicts worlds in which parts of it are as bad as possible, in most cases it’s impossible for the system to benefit the majority. These societies are often similar to our own yet somehow have reached some stage of ruin. The reader’s investment in how the world got to this point must be…

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  • An exploration of duality in After Dark

    Dualism is when Haruki Murakami displays two things as mirroring each other, almost a reverse of what’s happening but at the same time sharing a commonality even if they are opposing ends of the thing, for instance male and female are both genders but opposite. In After Dark to separate certain aspects. For instance, Eri…

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  • A Critical Analysis of my Creative Adaptation of A Christmas Carol

    Characterisation in a Christmas Carol is what makes the work so timeless. In my own work, I aimed to save the core of Scrooge’s character but change his motivation to kindness. This challenges the idea that Scrooge must act kinder to solve his problems. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is portrayed as, “stingy, cold, abusive,…

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