Search for notes by fellow students, in your own course and all over the country.
Browse our notes for titles which look like what you need, you can preview any of the notes via a sample of the contents. After you're happy these are the notes you're after simply pop them into your shopping cart.
My Basket
1984 | Book 1 | Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis | George Orwell£3.75
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations Themes£1.99
Of Mice and Men£9.65
A report on proper garbage disposal£1.30
USE FULL WEBLINKS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS£1.70
The Shawshank Redemption Film Analysis£7.50
Synopsis: All quiet on the Western front£1.00
李卫纪事£12.38
Study skills 2 essay for foundation£18.75
John Donne- The Good Morrow Context and Analysis£2.00
Porphyria's Lover A* notes£2.50
English Literature- Animal Farm Flash Cards£3.75
Spanish preterite indicative tense £2.50
Shakespeare's 'King Lear' key quotes £1.30
Romeo and Juliet £1.50
Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy Research Paper£6.25
李卫纪事£0.50
What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?£1.50
A* ANALYSIS POEMS 'NETTLES'£1.50
Total£81.32
Description: comparison between life in a prison in reading gaol and marshalsea by Charles Dickens
Document Preview
Extracts from the notes are below, to see the PDF you'll receive please use the links above
English assessment
Context introduction:
The two texts I will be writing about are Reading gaol: a poem written by Oscar
Wilde in 1897 after he was released from Reading gaol
...
When releasing the poem he published it under the name c
...
3, which stands for
cellblock C, landing 3, cell 3
...
It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June
1899, that C
...
The second text I will be writing about is
called Marshalsea written by the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens
...
An Act of Parliament closed the Marshalsea
in 1842, and on 19 November that year the inmates were relocated to the
Bethlem Hospital if they were mentally ill, or to the King's Bench Prison at that
point renamed the Queen's Prison
...
Section 1: The prison is presented as inhumane in Reading gaol
...
He suggests the prison wardens to be pitiless and strict, as they do not
care for the prisoners and let them “rot” and fed them “bitter bread” filled with
“chalk and lime”, used as an old technique to cheapen the cost of bread
...
“ I know no whether laws be right, or whether laws be
wrong”
...
All these create the
cold-‐blooded feeling to the poem
...
Like Reading gaol, it highlights the filth within the prison saying
“squalid”
...
It shows the cells as “confined”
combined with the “high walls dully spiked at the top” surrounding the prison, this
shows the unfriendly, negative environment the prisoners experienced whilst being in
the Marshalsea prison
...
We describe it as ‘paying of their debt’ he instead evoked the idea of
being forced into the prison
...
However, there is a subtle difference as Oscar Wilde: writer of
Reading gaol, experienced prison first hand but Charles Dickens experienced it second
hand, as rather than him being imprisoned his father was
Description: comparison between life in a prison in reading gaol and marshalsea by Charles Dickens