Text Analysis Guides

VCE English texts analysed by our top tutors and published authors. We highlight all important information about each teach to help you tackle Text Response with ease.

Ethan Sporton

An Ultimate Guide to The Memory Police

The Memory Police poses numerous questions about the nature of memory and loss—if someone loses a part of themselves, are they still the same person? Is forgetting inherently bad, and are we ought to resist it? Is anything ever truly forgotten? Acclaimed Japanese author Yōko Ogawa’s 1994 dystopian novel explores these questions through the story of an island where various objects ‘disappear’ frequently and inexplicably, both from the island and from people’s memories.

Giorgia Benini

An Ultimate Guide to Flames

Robbie Arnott’s magical realism novel Flames embarks on a journey through Tasmania to meditate on the complexity of human emotion and our relationship with nature. Centred in the natural world, Flames asks us to reject anthropocentrism and to consider the ways in which we are a reflection of, and a part of, the natural world.

Livia Tropea

An Ultimate Guide to My Brilliant Career

Characterised by its frank portrayal of hardship and oppression, Franklin’s writing reflects the social and political movements of federalism and female suffrage, emphasising the disempowerment of women in Australia while celebrating the Australian working class and natural environment with a strong sense of patriotism.

Giorgia Benini

An Ultimate Guide to Comparing I am Malala and Pride

Malala Yousafzai’s memoir I Am Malala and Matthew Warchus’ film Pride documents the lives of individuals who suffer due to the marginalization of their identities.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to Comparing The Hate Race and Charlie's Country

Maxine Clarke’s The Hate Race and Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country depict a society divided by race and cultural values, revealing the difficulties faced by people of colour in navigating a world characterised by social conflicts and hostility.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to Comparing The Crucible and The Dressmaker

Whilst Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Rosalind Ham’s The Dressmaker diverge in their structure, form, setting and focus, they share a thematic exploration of social oppression, hypocrisy and power.

Ella Waldman

An Ultimate Guide to Much Ado About Nothing

Set in Messina, it focuses on two intertwined stories of love and deception: the gulling of Benedick and Beatrice that results in them declaring their love for one another and the trickery that led Claudio into believing his wife-to-be Hero was unchaste.

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An Ultimate Guide to Things Fall Apart by Chinue Achebe

Centred around the life of Umuofia, a fictional clan in Nigeria, Achebe’s novel describes the rich tribal traditions, customs and lifestyles that fall apart upon European colonisation.

Dang Tung (“Ringo”) Bach

An Ultimate Guide High Ground by Stephen Johnson

Visually depicting Australia’s Frontier Wars, Johnson’s film “High Ground” acts as a critical expośe of Colonial and Post Colonial Australia.

Livia Tropea

An Ultimate Guide to Station Eleven

Mandel’s Station Eleven endeavours to present both honesty and optimism in its portrayal of how humanity deals with – or attempts to deal with – the collapse of society around them.

Dang Tung (“Ringo”) Bach

An Ultimate Guide to Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir written and directed by Billy Wilder. It follows Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter, as he stumbles upon former movie star Norma Desmond.

Giorgia Benini

An Ultimate Guide to Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison

Jane Harrison’s 2007 play ‘Rainbow’s End’ invites its audience into the household of three Indigenous women as they struggle to realise their dreams in an era of racial segregation and dispossession.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Instead of focusing on paranormality, Jackson conveys a “vast intimacy with everyday evil, with the pathological undertones of prosaic human configurations: a village, a family, a self”.

Giorgia Benini

An Ultimate Guide to The Women of Troy by Euripides

Set amidst the immediate aftermath of the infamous Trojan war, Euripides’ tragedy The Women of Troy serves as a critique of the atrocities committed by the Greeks during both the siege of Troy and Melos.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Set in Regency England, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice satirises contemporary marital conventions and underlines the consequences of class divisions on individuals’ relationships.

Giorgia Benini

An Ultimate Guide to Nine Days by Toni Jordans

Toni Jordan’s Nine Days is a non-linear historical fiction novel that tells the stories of two generations of Westaways, a fictional family situated in Richmond, Victoria.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

In Cold Blood is perhaps amongst the less popular texts chosen by schools for the VCE exams, and most often dreaded by English students due to the novelty of the genre, and the pace of the novel, in that it is packed with events and difficult to follow.

Lindsey Dang

An Ultimate Guide to Wordsworth’s Poetry

Romantic works are often centred around the life experience of individuals within both the spiritual and physical realms; they attempt to capture individual variations in perception, multiplying and co-existing truths, and the capacity the receptive consciousness has to filter and re-create reality.

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