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Richard III and Looking for Richard - Quotes and Analysis

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 with some quotes, techniques and analysis from each. Specifically, we will be examining how studying the differences and parallels between the texts shows how the key values of the Shakespeare’s texts are universal, and still...

Standard, Advanced and Extension Maths: HSC Exam Strategies

In your HSC maths exams, be time weary, but don't rush! Don't spend copious amounts of time on any one question, come back to it later on and look at it with a fresh mind and you will probably notice something you didn't before. Questions near the start of the paper ARE WORTH THE SAME MARKS as questions towards the end that usually take significantly more time. Best to devote time to easier questions than rush them and lose marks on harder ones at the back that are designed for the top tier stud...

1984 and Metropolis - Quotes & Analysis

In this part of our blog we are going to closely analyse intertextual examples from two of the prescribed HSC texts in Module A: George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.  Let’s dive into it. Looking at these texts, it is clear that the composers are relaying the same warning to humanity about freedom and control. Orwell through his text however, gives a bleaker perspective of the future, while Lang, through his text, remains hopeful for the future of humanity. Although not hi...