How to Study or Revise Characters in a Literature Text

by Michael Hartland

When I'm asked as an English tutor how to help students improve their grades in English literature, the first piece of advice I give is to develop an overview of a text.  

You can read about that in the first post in this series, here.

The next level of detail is to look closely at characters.  There are two previous series on this blog on characters: one on Lady Macbeth which starts here, and one on Desdemona, from Shakespeare's play Othello, which starts here.

• Take a blank sheet of paper or blank document on screen for each character in the text you are studying
• List their character qualities 
• Write down ay key quotations you can 

 You will start to feel more confident as you fill out your document in increasing detail and can then move on to memorising important quotations (you can read how to do this in another post here).

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