The Tempest & Hagseed: Textual Conversations
March 21, 2019
It can be argued that Atwood’s postmodern text ’Hag-seed’ is a modern day extrapolation of Shakespeare’s seminal text, ‘The Tempest.’ Atwood's reinterpretation aids in illuminating Shakespeare's underlying themes by reinterpreting them for modern audien...
Billy Elliot - Quotes and Analysis
March 21, 2019
Texts and Human Experiences
Welcome back to another CLEAR blog post. In this post, we will be exploring Stephen Daldry's film 'Billy Elliot', and discussing its relevance to the 'Texts and Human Experiences' rubric. Billy's restricted human experience is initially dictated b...
Rosemary Dobson - Texts and Human Experience
February 14, 2019
Welcome back to another CLEAR Education blog post!Today we will be exploring the Common Module of the new English syllabus, "Texts and Human Experiences". Specifically, we will be looking at Rosemary Dobson's prescribed poems and breaking three of them down.To star...
T.S. Eliot: Preludes - Quotes and Analysis
February 20, 2018
Welcome back to the CLEAR Education blog. Today's blog focuses on some of the more obscure poems of T.S Eliot as part of Module B; such as Preludes (written in 1910)
Context: Preludes was written during the evolution of Modernism, amidst an interwar period distinct in its in...
T.S. Eliot: 'The Hollow Men' - Quotes and Analysis
December 8, 2017
Welcome back to the Clear Education Blog! Here we will explore further into another of T.S. Eliot’s poems for Module B, The Hollow Men. In this poem, Eliot’s portrays the confronting spiritual and psychological isolation of the hollow men in order to reflect the feelings...
In this blog we will talk about one of T.S Eliot’s poems for HSC’s Advanced English Module B: The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock. We’ll talk about context and key values as well as analyse some examples to help you for your essay. Specifically, we’ll talk about the wa...
Henry Lawson - Quotes and Analysis
December 8, 2017
Welcome back! Throughout this blog post, we will focus on the work of Henry Lawson and his use of the distinctively visual to provide readers with an understanding of his perception on the harsh, inhospitable nature of the Australian outback and the effects this ha...
Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours - Quotes and Analysis
December 4, 2017
In this section of our blog, we are going to analyse the paired texts, Mrs Dalloway and The Hours. Let's get into it.
Delving into context and values:In Mrs Dalloway, the notion of female oppression is seen through the dissatisfaction ofwomen in their stereotypical roles as ...
Romeo and Juliet - Quotes and Analysis
November 29, 2017
We are going to take a break from Year 12 texts and look at the popular Shakespearean text that many school students study prior to Year 12 - Romeo and Juliet.
Specifically, we are going to look at the overarching theme of 'love.' This theme can be changed to 'forbidde...
Richard III and Looking for Richard - Quotes and Analysis
September 11, 2017
Welcome back to the CLEAR Education blog. In this post we will take a close look at the two HSC texts: Shakespeare’s play King Richard III and Al Pacino’s ‘drama’ documentary Looking For Richard. We will take a closer look at the contexts of these two texts, along wi...
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