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Introduction to Oscar Project

The issues that Oscar Wilde ignores in The Ballad of Reading Gaol are significant. They were in 1896 when Charles Wooldridge murdered Nell Glendell, and they remain so now.

Analytical Paragraph from “Hamlet”

This writing exercise was produced as an example for my senior English students, to demonstrate the use of quotations in an analytical text. I have modelled the use of short, one-to-five word quotations, showing how the reader should be able…

Projects

I work on a number of projects simultaneously, covering a range of topics.

IV: The observers

These observant outsiders drive the narratives of both The Glory and The Great Gatsby, and readers and viewers are encouraged to agree with their judgements of others.

III: The hopeful frauds

Two central characters - Jay Gatsby and Jeon Jae-jun - hold positions within society which are at best insecure and at worst illegitimate; their wealth and status are uncertain, tenuous, and shallow. These characters aspire, often desperately, to achieve the security of ‘real’ money and prestige but both texts end with the ultimate and tragic failure of these aspirations.