BY HENRY SACKS Rarely do you find a book that brings an enjoyable plot alongside not only useful but insightful knowledge, however after reading this book I can say that it certainly is possible. The book follows the true story of brothers from the island of Martinique who venture back to their homeland of Grenada […]
Category: English Literature
Mary Shelley – The Woman Behind Frankenstein
BY TESSA HERDALE When Mary Shelley died in 1851, few mourned her passing. A woman of little friends, disgraced from society, her only close family was her beloved son, Percy Florence, and his wife Jane. And despite the success of her celebrated novel – Frankenstein, at the time of her death she believed herself to […]
Y9 Enrichment Day: Report by Abigail McKee
Y9 Enrichment Day: Report by Abigail McKee On Wednesday the 3rd of June, Year 9 of Stamford High School had an English poetry presentation workshop run for them by Darren Rawnsley, a poet, performer, and primary school teacher. The activity day overall consisted of writing a poem and enhancing it with props and percussion instruments, […]
Review of the Y9 Enrichment Day on Wed 30th June: Written by Jasmine Withers
Review of the Y9 Enrichment Day on Wed 30th June: Written by Jasmine Withers With special thanks to Mr Zacharias for organising such an incredible day, today was a very educational, exciting and well planned experience that I thoroughly enjoyed along with my peers, We started off the day with an amazing session with […]
Lottie Pike explores The Portrayal of Free Will in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Portrayal of Free Will in Shakespeare’s Hamlet “Denmark’s a prison” – Hamlet (2.2.234) During the Elizabethan era, in which Shakespeare’s Hamlet was written, the public opinion was very much one of the belief in fate and the deterministic nature of the Universe. These views were often symbolised by a ‘wheel of fortune’, which […]
National Theatre at Home – “Jane Eyre” during global lockdown by Pavel Gulin Zrnic
National Theatre at Home – “Jane Eyre” during global lockdown by Pavel Gulin Zrnic Coronavirus has significantly impacted theatres as they were on the frontline when all the public gatherings were banned which happened even before the whole country went on the complete lockdown. Many young performers within Stamford Endowed Schools including myself were directly […]
Pavel Gulin Zrnic discusses Victorian literary characters through the perspective of modern psychology
Victorian protagonists Vs. Modern psychology Pavel Gulin Zrnic discusses Victorian literary characters through the perspective of modern psychology There is a huge similarity between many of the novels written in the 19th century by the Victorian era writers which is that the majority of their protagonists were orphans who had very tough childhoods. For instance […]
Darcey Sharpe asks if ‘Little Women’ is a feminist novel?
Is Little Women, by Louisa Alcott, a feminist novel? “Little Women” is a classic novel written by Louisa Alcott, which is based on her own experiences. As she grew up with three sisters, I would say that the novel is very realistic as it is known for presenting many of her personal viewpoints and is […]
Mollie Bicknell explains how the English Language evolved and took over the planet.
How the English language evolved and took over the planet. The English language began in the fifth century in the form of Old English, at the time, England was occupied by the Saxons, Angles, Frisians and Jutes who each spoke different dialects of the same West Germanic language. These dialects merged together to form […]
Harry Laventure discusses: The Comic Tragedy of Emojis, Abbreviations and 1984’s Newspeak
The Comic Tragedy of Emojis, Abbreviations, and 1984’s Newspeak George Orwell’s “1984” may be not only one of the greatest works of Dystopian Fiction, but Fiction as a whole. The terrifying accuracy with which it predicted many aspects of the societies we live in today, though staggering, is widely known. Orwell depicts a nightmarish Totalitarian […]