Never Let Me Go - Miss Emily and Miss Lucy
MISS EMILY The headmistress of Hailsham, can be very sharp according to Kathy. The children thought she had an extra sense in that they thought she was able to know where a child was if he ...
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Never Let Me Go (Part 3)
Part Three focuses on Kathy’s time as carer. While Kathy is good at her job, the work is both difficult and lonely. She unexpectedly runs into a Hailsham friend named Laura, who is also a ca...
1984 - Winston Smith
Orwell’s primary goal in 1984 is to demonstrate the terrifying possibilities of totalitarianism. The reader experiences the nightmarish world that Orwell envisions through the eyes of the pr...
1984 - Independence and identity
While the Party’s primary tool for manipulating the populace is the control of history, they also control independence and identity. For example, the basic traits of establishing one’s ident...
Never Let Me Go (Part 1)
Although Kathy’s narration is often nonlinear, the novel’s three parts roughly align with three stages in her life. In Part One, Kathy remembers her childhood at Hailsham. She describes her ...
Never Let Me Go (Part 2)
In Part Two, Kathy moves with Ruth and Tommy to a transitional housing facility known as the Cottages. They adjust to their new lives, becoming acquainted with the “veteran” students living ...
Never Let Me Go - Relentless passage of time and the inevitability of loss
Although she is only thirty-one at the start of the novel, Kathy has almost reached the end of her life. She has lost almost everyone she knew from Hailsham, holding onto them only in her me...
An undiscovered paradise - English Essay
I woke up lying on the soft white sand, facing up towards the cloudless azure sky. I could feel the early morning sun bearing down on me. I sat up, rubbing my eyes. The sea was now calm, gen...
King Lear - family
The play revolves around the destruction of Lear and Gloucester’s families. Both banish loyal children and reward the wicked ones with their inheritance. Parental anxiety about their child...
King Lear - blindness
- Lear is emotionally blind: he cannot see Cordelia’s true love for him & banishes her. Through his madness he gets perfect vision, realises Goneril and Regan’s wickedness and Cordelia’s lo...