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19th-century novels
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Open guide Revision guidePride and Prejudice: ElizabethStudents type: elizabeth bennet analysis gcse
Open guide Revision guideGreat Expectations: Miss HavishamStudents type: miss havisham analysis gcse
Open guide Revision guideGreat Expectations: PipStudents type: pip character analysis gcse
Open guide Revision guideFrankenstein: VictorStudents type: victor frankenstein analysis gcse
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Open guide Revision guideLanyon in Jekyll and HydeStudents type: Dr Lanyon Jekyll and Hyde GCSE
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Open guide Revision guideMr Hyde character analysisStudents type: Mr Hyde character analysis GCSE
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Open guideA Christmas Carol revision
GCSE A Christmas Carol revision covering Scrooge’s transformation, Dickens’s social criticism, the ghosts, and the methods that turn a miser into a moral argument.
A Christmas Carol characters
Revise Scrooge, Fred, the Cratchits, Marley and the ghosts as a designed set of contrasts rather than a roll call.
A Christmas Carol themes
Redemption, social responsibility, family, time, generosity and the meaning of Christmas in Dickens’s novella.
Jekyll and Hyde revision
Revise duality, repression, reputation and Victorian science in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Frankenstein revision
Revise ambition, responsibility, isolation and what it means to be human in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Great Expectations revision
Revise class, guilt, self-deception and what “gentleman” means in Dickens’s Great Expectations.
Pride and Prejudice revision
Revise marriage, class, first impressions and irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
The Sign of the Four revision
Revise Holmes, Watson, empire, treasure and deduction in Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four.
Magwitch in Great Expectations
GCSE Magwitch revision: marshes convict, Pip’s secret guilt, benefactor truth, coarse gratitude, class punchline, death and Pip’s final loyalty.
Joe Gargery in Great Expectations
GCSE Joe Gargery revision: forge warmth, “What larks”, Pip’s shame, unchanged loyalty, true gentleman without London polish, and moral centre of the novel.
Estella in Great Expectations
GCSE Estella revision: Miss Havisham’s weapon, “coarse hands”, cold beauty, “I am what you designed me to be”, and thawed feeling at the end.
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four
GCSE Holmes revision: deduction as theatre, eliminate the impossible, cocaine boredom, cold brilliance, Watson as witness, and method over magic.
Irene Adler and women in Sign of the Four
GCSE note: Irene Adler is in “A Scandal in Bohemia”, not Sign of the Four — Mary Morstan, Mrs Forrester, and gender in the novella.
Themes in The Sign of the Four
GCSE Sign of the Four themes: deduction and empire, treasure and guilt, friendship, London geography, addiction and restlessness, and colonial past in the Thames plot.
Walton in Frankenstein
GCSE Walton revision: Arctic frame, ambitious explorer, parallel to Victor, letters as structure, loneliness, and warning that may not be heeded.
The De Lacey family in Frankenstein
GCSE De Lacey cottage revision: Creature’s education, language and fire, domestic humanity, Paradise Lost, rejection, and hope burned away.
Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
GCSE Darcy revision: first impression pride, Pemberley thaw, letter revelation, saved Lydia, second proposal, and class armour schooled by action.
Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
GCSE Pride and Prejudice marriage revision: opening irony, entailment, Charlotte’s realism, Lydia’s disaster, Elizabeth-Darcy union, and economics beside love.
Scrooge character analysis
GCSE A Christmas Carol character analysis of Scrooge: oyster and flint caricature, Belle and Fezziwig, and how Dickens turns a miser into a case study across the staves.
Marley in A Christmas Carol
GCSE revision of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol: the chain he forged, “mankind was my business”, and how he is the doppelganger of Scrooge’s possible future.
Ghost of Christmas Past
GCSE guide to the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol: memory as method, Fan, the school, Fezziwig and Belle, and how the past explains Scrooge without excusing him.
Ghost of Christmas Present
GCSE analysis of the Ghost of Christmas Present: abundance, the Cratchits, Fred’s party, the holly torch, and Ignorance and Want as Dickens’s social warning.
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
GCSE revision of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: silence as method, the unnamed corpse, businessmen, the grave, and Tiny Tim’s death as a conditional warning.
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
GCSE study of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol: the Cratchit counter-economy, “surplus population” answered, and Tim as a social warning rather than only pathos.
Fred in A Christmas Carol
GCSE character analysis of Fred in A Christmas Carol: invulnerable good humour, the open door, foil to Scrooge, and why “his wealth is of no use to him” damns unused money.
A Christmas Carol exam questions
GCSE AQA-style A Christmas Carol exam questions: extract plus whole text, typical stems, thesis first, methods, Poor Law context, timing, and what Band 5/6 looks like versus plot retell.
Dr Jekyll character analysis
GCSE Jekyll and Hyde: Henry Jekyll as respectable scientist, repressed pleasure-seeker and author of his own split — not a simple “good side,” and how to write him in extract questions.
Mr Hyde character analysis
GCSE Mr Hyde: violence, the “ape-like” body, secrecy, and why Hyde is Jekyll’s repressed appetite given flesh — not a separate villain who wandered in from a penny dreadful.
Utterson in Jekyll and Hyde
GCSE Utterson: the lawyer as delayed detective, “Cain’s heresy,” reputation as a professional ethic, and why Stevenson makes us share a man who will not ask the dangerous question soon enough.
Lanyon in Jekyll and Hyde
GCSE Dr Lanyon: the rational friend, “unscientific balderdash,” the witnessed transformation, and how Stevenson uses one doctor’s mind to show science, friendship and forbidden knowledge breaking.
Jekyll and Hyde exam questions
AQA-style extract plus whole novella: how to open, typical stems (duality, reputation, science, secrecy, violence), letters as form, timing, and a model first paragraph you can adapt in the hall.
Frankenstein: the Creature
GCSE Frankenstein Creature analysis: born benevolent, educated by misery, biblical Adam and fallen angel, and why Shelley makes the rejected creation argue.
Frankenstein: Victor
GCSE Victor Frankenstein analysis: Promethean ambition, secrecy, failure of parenthood, and the frame with Walton’s parallel quest.
Great Expectations: Pip
GCSE Pip character analysis: shame, snobbery, guilt on the marshes, and the narrator’s double vision of his younger self.
Great Expectations: Miss Havisham
GCSE Miss Havisham analysis: stopped clocks, revenge through Estella, and Dickens’s warning about living in one wound.
Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth
GCSE Elizabeth Bennet analysis: wit, prejudice, pride wounded, letter and Pemberley as education, and Austen’s free indirect style.
Jekyll and Hyde: themes in depth
GCSE Jekyll and Hyde themes depth: duality, repression, science, respectability and London setting beyond the character pages.
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