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Jen Chan
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Hi! I'm Jen, a literary expert, innovative educator and study content creator. If you're studying English Literature at school, this channel is where you can find top grade learning resources on Shakespeare, poetry, fiction and essay writing (with an emphasis on I/GCSE, A-Level and IB - but I promise you I can analyse ANY text!).
Since graduating with a 1st Class Degree in English from the University of Oxford, I've been teaching and writing about English Literature for as long as I can remember.
My literary analysis is always detailed, insightful and creative. I love reading between the lines, and literature offers us a wonderful opportunity to do just that. My goal is to inspire you to see the fun and beauty of analysing great writing - and of course, to get top grades while we're at it!
I'll be posting weekly videos aimed at helping you become a lit expert, so make sure to subscribe.
Check out my study guides here: www.hyperbolit.com/buy
Since graduating with a 1st Class Degree in English from the University of Oxford, I've been teaching and writing about English Literature for as long as I can remember.
My literary analysis is always detailed, insightful and creative. I love reading between the lines, and literature offers us a wonderful opportunity to do just that. My goal is to inspire you to see the fun and beauty of analysing great writing - and of course, to get top grades while we're at it!
I'll be posting weekly videos aimed at helping you become a lit expert, so make sure to subscribe.
Check out my study guides here: www.hyperbolit.com/buy
Remains by Simon Armitage | Top grade analysis
In this video, I provide a detailed analysis of Simon Armitage's poem 'Remains', with insights into Armitage's use of language, structure and form and how his poetic craft sheds light on the deeper themes and messages. There might be some surprises in this one that you've not come across in other interpretations of this poem - so sit tight!
TIMESTAMPS:
02:25 - Analysis: Stanza 1-4
07:20 - Analysis: Stanza 5-8
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TIMESTAMPS:
02:25 - Analysis: Stanza 1-4
07:20 - Analysis: Stanza 5-8
💯 WATCH VIDEOS IN MY GCSE POWER AND CONFLICT POETRY PLAYLIST: ua-cam.com/play/PLhe5sjPdsN7apTVN3zgUuquzu8B3Dk_1j.html
💫 FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM to DM me with questions: bit.ly/393zRvg
💌JOIN MY MAILING LIST for monthly digests of all the good stuff I write and create for English lit students: bit.ly/3l0bYHC
Email me at itslitwithjen@gmail.com
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What are the key sources of power in 'A Doll's House'?
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We tend to associate the concept of power with politics and governance, but actually power is a key preoccupation for everyone, and a core dynamic within interpersonal relationships, whether it be in family, friendships or romance. In Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’, most of the characters seem to hold some lever of power vis-a-vis someone close to them, which they pull at various points to either com...
Character analysis of Mrs Linde, Krogstad and Doctor Rank in 'A Doll's House'
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The irony with minor characters is that they often play a major role in revealing important insights about the protagonists, and in the case of 'A Doll's House', the 3 'minor' characters - Mrs Linde (Kristine), Nils Krogstad and Doctor Rank - all serve as foils and catalysts which are critical to the play's development and dramatic impact. In this video, I provide an in-depth analysis on all th...
Analysis of 3 key symbols in 'A Doll's House': macaroons, tarantella, letters
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Symbolism is such an important device in drama because symbols are often presented in concrete, visual form as props or objects on stage. In 'A Doll's House', the 3 key symbols include the macaroons that Nora sneakily eats against her husband’s approval, the Tarantella dance that she performs at their neighbour’s fancy dress ball, and the letters by Torvald and Krogstad. While each symbol provi...
Does Nora really transform in 'A Doll's House'? | Character analysis
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Nora Helmer is a complex character because the way she behaves in front of her husband and children doesn't quite square up with her true self. She fits the role of a seemingly submissive, 'little bird' of a wife to Torvald at the start of the play, but ultimately makes the fateful - and in Ibsen's time, controversial - decision to leave the Helmer household and pursue a new life of her own. My...
What is Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' really about?
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Woolf is one of my favourite authors, and I distinctly recall first reading her essay 'A Room of One's Own' on a bitterly cold winter in my first year at university. The unpleasant weather was more than compensated for by Woolf's wonderful prose and resonating insights, and many years down the line, I revisit this essay with a sense of awe about just how much her writing has shaped my character...
What is George Orwell's essay 'Why I Write' really about?
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You wouldn't think it from reading novels like '1984' and 'Animal Farm', but apparently when George Orwell was a kid he wanted to be the kind of writer who would use "purple prose" and write "enormous novels with unhappy endings". Clearly things didn't turn out exactly that way (except for maybe the unhappy ending part...), and in his seminal essay 'Why I Write', we find out why Orwell ended up...
What is Roland Barthes' 'The Death of the Author' really about?
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You've heard it - the author is 'dead', the reader is 'born', intentional fallacy is real etc etc. For most seasoned lit students, the idea that one would assume what an author had 'meant' in their writing almost amounts to literary felony. But that's honestly a bit of an outdated belief, and even as we appreciate the clear benefits of close reading, most of us would see the value of understand...
What is T. S. Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' really about?
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What is T. S. Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' really about?
Analysis: Ending of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
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Analysis: Ending of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
Analysis: Opening to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
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Analysis: Opening to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
3 key approaches to literary analysis: close, contextual & theoretical reading
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3 key approaches to literary analysis: close, contextual & theoretical reading
3 reasons why you should do a literature degree
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3 reasons why you should do a literature degree
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou | Top grade analysis
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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou | Top grade analysis
The Tyger by William Blake | Top grade analysis
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The Tyger by William Blake | Top grade analysis
What's different about top GCSE, A-Level and university English essays?
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What's different about top GCSE, A-Level and university English essays?
What actually happens at the end of The Handmaid's Tale?
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What actually happens at the end of The Handmaid's Tale?
Should we feel bad for Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Should we feel bad for Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Should we feel bad for the Commander in The Handmaid's Tale?
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Should we feel bad for the Commander in The Handmaid's Tale?
Analysis of the poker game symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire
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Analysis of the poker game symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire
Who's the scapegoat in The Handmaid's Tale?
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Who's the scapegoat in The Handmaid's Tale?
Narrative self-consciousness in The Handmaid's Tale
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Narrative self-consciousness in The Handmaid's Tale
The most important context of The Handmaid's Tale
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The most important context of The Handmaid's Tale
Is The Handmaid's Tale a feminist novel?
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Is The Handmaid's Tale a feminist novel?
Reading A Streetcar Named Desire with feminist, psychoanalytic and marxist theory
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Reading A Streetcar Named Desire with feminist, psychoanalytic and marxist theory
What's the context of A Streetcar Named Desire? Historical, social, cultural
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What's the context of A Streetcar Named Desire? Historical, social, cultural
What is 'love' in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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What is 'love' in A Streetcar Named Desire?
3 symbolic moments in A Streetcar Named Desire | Detailed analysis
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3 symbolic moments in A Streetcar Named Desire | Detailed analysis
Reputation and honour in Othello | Top grade analysis
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Reputation and honour in Othello | Top grade analysis
Analysing Othello with Freud: Id, Ego and Superego
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Analysing Othello with Freud: Id, Ego and Superego
I love all your videos, there all so indepth and your love for literature and helping others understand it is to be commended :) thank you for these videos and your breakdown of them in an understandable way
I am inspired by your perfect pronounciation packed with broad literary context
Thank you so much for this Jen. Such a clear and concise annotation of the poem! I really love your analysis - this was a super engaging video and will be helpful for my Higher English revision :)
I also feel as though this poem is brilliant in exploring the character of a soldier; someone who is expected to be tough, rough and dominant, but this is ultimately juxtaposed with the speaker’s feelings of guilt that ultimate weakens him or has weakened him. This juxtaposition could highlight the tension between the internal and the external or the personal or the societal. I feel as though this poem could have an overall message about society and the issues and morals in society. I don’t know if what I’m saying is plausible but I just felt this way after reading the poem for the first time.
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Hello could you please make some videos on Feminine Gospels?
You deserve billions of views.
As another commentator notes, Dickens is never hoping for an overthrow of the Capitalist system. Indeed, on Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited in his office by three other Capitalists, the two "Gentlemen", who are not "street collectors" but Capitalist exploiters like Scrooge who see Christmas "Charity" as important. Fred, Scrooge's nephew, is Capitalist enough to have at least one maidservant working on Christmas Day, but, "Because of the Season", thinks that that one day (and by implication ONLY that day) should see some amelioration of the Capitalist urge to make profit. Furthermore, Dickens also shows similar "once-off" Acts of Charity is his Godlike view of other places of business and Government in the City on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - but that is where Dickens desire for reform ends. The problem with Dickens, in both "A Christmas Carol" and in his other works, is that he refuses to see the systemic causes and instead focuses on the particular (and quite frankly, he wasn't especially good when it came to the "Particular" - for instance, when, less that two years after the publication of "A Christmas Carol", the Famine broke out in Ireland, Dickens not only didn't personally donate a penny to Irish Famine relief, he was also a passionate and very public supporter of the Whig Government's decision to cut off ALL Government relief for Ireland). Defenders of Dickens might point out that "A Christmas Carol" was written and published before any Marx writings were published, yet we can equally note that, the fully reformed Scrooge does NOT "Sell everything he has and give the money to the Poor" (Christian Gospels and Acts of the Apostles). Rather, Scrooge becomes like the two "Gentlemen", increasing his personal "Charitable Giving". He remains still a Slum Landlord/Money Lender that the novella implies is his day-to-day business - And Dickens calls this "Good"....
Did my GCSEs this year and waited so long for this video do here I am watching it after because you make literature interesting
Hi Missss, Please can you do one for the extract questions? ❤
Thankyouu, you helped me so much on my exam!
Hi MIss, I hope you are doing well. Is it possible you could do an extract question please? Many thanks!
Please do more Frankenstein and Handmaids Tale for a level lit students
The most amazing thing about this book is the belief that a man could change so completely over such a short time. If he did make that transformation, he really was an incredible human being who, after deeply embedded habits, was able and willing to give them all up for the greater good. Surely, he was then, an incredible human being simply waiting to blossom?
guessing you have an exam in two days too huh
@@leapifyin6694 Nope. 45 years past my exam days. I was simply curious about his transformation at the end of the book.
is peter rabbit a example of anthromorphsim
Thank you
Hi Jen, I’ve came on here before to comment but I’ve been using your channel now for over a year religiously. I used all your videos to the full potential for for my English lit paper 2 mock and got 100% which is partially down to your hard work and research that goes into all your vids - thank you for everything I’m so happy I got what I got (my teachers couldn’t believe it and are all remarking it now🤣)
Learning for my English speaking exam in Germany and you're a big help! Thank you so much!!! (the themes are gender, racism and iago)
Hi Jen Chan, thank you so much for the 'A Doll's House' videos, they are so helpful!! Me and all my friends are obsessed with you. Could you please make more videos on the gothic, especially Dracula and The Bloody Chamber? 💗💗💗
Hi love - great to know these are helpful! The Bloody Chamber is on my list, yes, but Dracula I'm not so sure right now as it doesn't seem like as many students are doing this text. But I'll explore, and probably do a video on the gothic!
hiya great video, you have been such a help so thank you! I was just wondering all these videos for a streetcar, the great gatsby, othello etc can these points yu make link to any question ?
Yes, I think these analysis videos are versatile enough to use for a variety of question types!
I have seen all of the tv show that is out so far, but not the book. As for the tv show, in every episode, at the beginning and the end of every day, all that June discusses, she does so through the lense of her womanhood and how everyone else (ok not EVERYONE else) treats such with contempt or indifference. All of the highs and lows of the tv show are seen through this lense, so unless what was adapted was a stereotype of the book as Feminist and not the actual book, (which I strongly doubt) then I think the answer is very clear.
What my mocks are based on life saver
hi !! I love your videos. could you do a video on the theme of Fate in Romeo and Juliet?
absolutely fantastic work!
I am so mind-blown. You are so gifted in this! I am so hooked to your channel!
I have never heard a better interpretation than this of this complex poem. What an incredible job you did! This is so great, i am going to come back to this video over and over.
Thank you so much! You're so sweet :)
Can you please make more of these??? Aqa English literature, a level exam walkthrough , please ❤ May God bless you and your family in Jesus' name.Amen.
Can you please make more of these??? Aqa English literature, a level exam walkthrough , please ❤ May God bless you and your family in Jesus' name.Amen.
Brilliant !
so true please make videos about english literature because im taking it as an A level and struggling
binary and singular?
You're providing great food for thought, but oof! I hope you never have to encounter an abusive narcissist because you are affording this character with so much compassion, and he would likely take advantage of that. That said, thank you for your thoughts and efforts; I love hearing other people's insights into iconic characters in great literature.
Haha, that's fair - although I'm not sure IRL I'd actually have the emotional generosity to be so compassionate towards someone like Tom B... (which would be a good thing for self-protection!!) Can't be having narcissists walk all over us, for sure. :D Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you so much for your videos Jen I just wrote my Final Literacy Essay Exam Yesterday after watching your videos and it went so well!!!, I felt so confident after watching your videos! TThank you for helping students all around the World!!!
if you are asked on how shakespeare explores a certain theme e.g. love in othello, how would you apply literary critics?
This entire video addresses this question!
you got me a 9 in English lit thank youuuu
This was incredible, thank you so much. What a talent I aspire to one day have.
Omg THANK YOU JEN please make more of these!!! and for Paradise Lost🙏🙏🙏💓💓
Hi! Your videos are so helpful and have really helped to push my grades up. Thank-you so much for the time you took making them! I was wondering if you would consider ever doing any videos on poems The Feminine Gospels by Carol and Duffy? Thanks again for saving my grades!!
Thanks so much for letting me know! I will consider doing more videos on Duffy's poetry, yes... stay tuned!
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Wow so glad I found this video. 🫶🏼Is this specifically intended for a level students btw? And which exam board is this based on or is it just general
This can be applied to any exam board, frankly!
thank you for this!! please continue analysing hamlet your analysis is like none other
Hey, i used your animal farm videos for my GSCEs this year and you literally saved me!! I got a grade 7 with the help of your videos, just thought i should thank you 😅
I'm having an enthusiasm for Shakespeare later in life. I'm way past exams. I find your analysis very insightful and comprehensive and superbly well expressed. I don't need the pressure of testing to seek you out. These videos are marvellous.
THIS HELPS SO MUCH MY ESSEYS ARE WAY BETTER WITH UR HELP
you are literally my savior for lit!
Thank you so much for this, I was finding it difficult to understand Eliot and now because of you i am able to comprehend better. 💗 Kudos to you !! <3
am here a day before the exam from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤
ive been watching ur videos for a while now. i love u sm girl ur literally saving my life and reigniting my love for english once again
My exam is literally tomorrow YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER ❤️
I love how much energy and dedication you put into acting out the dialogue in the play! It makes it a lot more fun and humorous to analyse. Thank you for all your videos, they're really helping me to feel more confident in the face of my Othello mock exam.
❤ Thank you so much for this