Band 6 Hamlet – Foil Themed

William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ is a timeless play which remains relevant across all generations due to its engagement with universal concepts of what constitutes a ‘man’ and rational thought over rash action. Within the medieval context, to be subservient to one’s patriarch in vengeance was a noble cause. However, prince Hamlet struggles with his avenger role …

Band 6 Auden with Diaz

“The power of a composer to shape political perspectives of events, personas and histories are the lessons taught by the study of People and Politics.” Any act of representation of events, history and personage is inherently a political act. As such, composers utilise persuasive and meticulous control over language to present literature that allow us …

Textual Dynamics Creative: Le author de morte (The Death of the Author)

                            My fingers brush across the mystical forests, the quaint cottages, the rustic farms – all so different to the gentle leisureliness of the chambers in the castle, the drawing rooms. Everything was sharper, clearer, the key lines of narrative fate spread before …

Band 6 Go Back to Where you Came From + My Place

          Due to the innate nature of discovery, it becomes an intrinsic urge for man to explore and to be enlightened by an intense journey that can shift or challenge perspectives on the individual and their society. Discovery as a transformative process has the ability to influence an individual’s perception of …

Band 5/6 Crucible Mega Essay + Blackfish

Purgation is necessary for a healthy safe, personal relationships and community. To what extent is this your understanding of your prescribed and two related texts?                    Purgation is the act of purifying or cleansing oneself of negative emotions. In doing so, one is able to achieve catharsis …

Band 6 AOS Creative – Hospice Narrative

The hospice - home had something about it that set it apart from the rest. It was a home filled with a number of instrument: a wayward saxophone, a distended trombone, trumpets, bassoons and dusty guitars that the master had practiced and performed in his youth. Antique wooden photo frames covered with dust rests atop …

Band 6 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon + The Execution

“In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual?” The way people perceive the world is constantly challenged by our perceptions of the distinctively visual. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) by Ang Lee, captures the distinct junction of the clash of Eastern and Western philosophies in China. It utilises …

Band 6 Judith Wright + Red Dog / No Intro

                       Judith Wright’s poem The Hawthorn Hedge evocatively represents the landscape as a sanctuary and source of opportunity for individuals. This poem reflects Wright's concerns about the conflict between her love of the landscape and the colonialists' dispossession of the Aborigines. Wright utilises the cumulative …

Band 6 Tempest + Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

       In William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611), it is through unexpected and planned discoveries that individuals are forced to reassess their perception of themselves and others. This is also reflected in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Jekyll and Hyde) (1886), and in both texts, …

Band 6 Pride and Prejudice + Letters to Alice

            A critical study of the subtle and obvious connections between Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Fay Weldon’s epistolary non-fiction text Letters To Alice (1984) enables responders to achieve greater understanding of how context shapes perspectives. By examining how attitudes and values have shifted between the Regency …

Band 6 Ondaatje :: In the Skin of a Lion

            The representation of conceptual ideas and historical context is often focused on by authors, which allows for an enhanced perception and insight towards people and society. Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion draws upon the social and historical anxieties of Post-Colonial Canada; where there was a substantial …

Band 6 The Crucible + Keating

              Representation of people and politics are often based upon past events and experiences. As authors compose political perspective that reveal their purposes and motives, an inevitable tension emerges between the individual conscience and political compliance. Hence, past events can have significant impact on individuals and their societies. The …

Band 6 Robert Frost + David Sadaris

                It is often assumed that the act of discovery is inherently a planned experience of learning. However, [the most significant] discoveries can be unplanned and unexpected, teaching vital lessons in life through epiphanies and encounters. The poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost assumes the nature of a …

Band 6 T.S Eliot- Faith + Decay + Search for Truth

              T.S Eliot, one of the eminent literary figures of the Modernist era, captures the exultation and despair of a generation in a modernist response caused by the First World War and the disillusionment of mundane modernity. His profound anxiety is demonstrated in “The Love song of J.Alfred Prufrock”, …

Band 6 Metropolis and 1984 Essay – Violence Core Theme

                          Fritz Lang’s expressionist film, Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s Swiftian satire Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) dramatise the impact of repressive governments upon the individual. Lang reflects the anxieties of the Weimar Republic of Germany, under the stresses following the First World War, …