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[II] Postcolonial Retellings in Remembering Babylon: Seeing What is There & Beyond Foundational Myths

How are the foundational Australian myths and narratives of colonial violence challenged in David Malouf's novel?

[I] Postcolonial Retellings in Remembering Babylon: Seeing What is There

History of Colonial Racism and The "Lost Child" in Remembering Babylon

Gendering Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Using Critical Theory to Examine Nora’s Femininity

Henrik Ibsen's play was revolutionary at its time in its provoking subversiveness and interrogation of the heterosexual family unit and...

Congratulations Class of 2023!

Celebrating the success of AWWL 2023 A Level students!

IB Lang Lit

IB Lang Lit SL/HL Paper 2 Comparative Essay: Journey

A critical commentary responding to a IB Lang Lit Paper 2 prompt comparing Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll...

H2 Unseen

A Fowl Take: 2022 A Levels' H2 Unseen Poetry Comparison (Nature)

A critical commentary on the portrayal of nature in Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" and Judith Wright's "Pelicans".

Pride and Prejudice

Let’s Talk Balls: Music and Dance in Pride & Prejudice

Music and dance are pertinent motifs throughout Jane Austen’s novels. Beyond reflecting the social conventions and reality of the Regency...

Critical Analysis

Pride and Prejudice: The Marriage Matrix (A Peek into our Sample Lesson!)

Key insights on problematising love and marriage in Pride and Prejudice from our complimentary open class held on May 2023.

General Paper

"The results of scientific research should be made available to everyone." HFDYA? General Paper 2022

Unpacking the Science question for 2022 GP Paper 1!

Critical Analysis

[GP x Lit] Who's Afraid of the Unnatural? Society/Politics, Frankenstein, Technology.

Through Frankenstein and real world contexts, we will be examining how the rhetoric/fallacy of reducing the "unnatural" to the "other"...

Playing for Time

Music & Culture in Playing for Time by Arthur Miller: A Contextual Understanding

Why were the Nazis (as reflected in Arthur Miller's Playing for Time) so obsessed with Germanic and European music? It may have to do with t

General Paper

Economics in General Paper? Drugs and Price Elasticity of Demand

Should the government invest more in combatting supply of illicit drugs or the demand for illicit drugs? The answer lies in price...

General Paper

New General Paper Syllabus: What's New for Paper 1? Comparing 8881 and 8807.

What's new in P1 of the new General Paper syllabus? Not much.

Critical Analysis

Human Fears of Reality and Honesty (Mind and Self) | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Illusion and Reality: What's the difference? How do we move forward from the seductive lies of illusions?

Critical Analysis

Modernist Elegy | The Great Gatsby

In this article, we will explore the intersections of modernism, absurdity and the thematic concerns of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott...

Critical Analysis

Lookism: Appearance and Ugliness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Why is Frankenstein's creature ugly? Is he even ugly? What does his "ugliness" mean?

Mind and Self

Mind and Self: A Tale of Misguided Self-Actualisation in Inventing Anna

Applying the "mind and self" angle of H2 Literature to Inventing Anna: Self-deception, deceptive appearances and self-actualisation.

Mind and Self

Mind and Self: Modernist Rage of Sylvia Plath's Ariel (Critical Contexts of Ariel)

Plath's poetry is not merely confessional or intimately personal. It is also culturally significant.

A Level Lit Hacks

What makes a good A Level Paper 1 Unseen Essay? (9509/01 and 8832/01)

Deconstructing the "policy-speak" of the H1 and H2 Literature syllabus documents.

A Level Lit Hacks

How To Appropriately Identify Diction as a Literary Device for Analysis?

Thinking of slapping "diction" as a literary device into your analysis? Think again.

Stay tuned for our next article and open class!