Macbeth
August 17, 2022
Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows a moral battle of an individual’s ambition and drive forpower, and the ultimate guilt experienced, leading to a descent into madness. Throughoutthis tragic play we focus on the core themes of Fate, Ambition, and Guilt and a Demise intoMadnes...
Merchant of Venice
December 28, 2021
Welcome back to another blog post! Today, we will be discussing Shakespeare’s comedic play ‘Merchant of Venice’ published in 1623. Shakespeare’s portrayal of antisemitism, particularly for the protagonist, directly correlates with the HSC common module ‘Texts and H...
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...
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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