QCE English prescribed texts
Theme breakdowns, character maps, motif tracking, examiner focus and essay scaffolds for every QCAA prescribed text. Public-domain texts cite the canonical edition; copyrighted texts cover analysis without quotation, in line with Australian copyright law.
Unit 4: Close study of literary texts
5 texts- Hannah KentCopyrightedBurial Rites
QCE Unit 4 close-study analysis of Hannah Kent's 2013 novel. Structure, themes, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around hybrid form, voice and the Icelandic farm economy.
6 themesOpen -> - Tim WintonCopyrightedCloudstreet
QCE Unit 4 close-study analysis of Tim Winton's 1991 novel. Structure, themes, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around the dual family structure and the house at Number One Cloud Street.
6 themesOpen -> - Charles DickensPublic domainGreat Expectations
QCE Unit 4 analysis of Dickens' bildungsroman. Dual narration, class critique, the two endings, examiner focus and essay scaffold.
6 themesOpen -> - Nathaniel HawthornePublic domainThe Scarlet Letter
QCE Unit 4 close study of Hawthorne's novel. Symbol analysis, the role of the Custom-House preface, examiner focus and essay scaffold built around the instability of the letter A.
6 themesOpen -> - Tony BirchCopyrightedThe White Girl
QCE Unit 4 close-study analysis of Tony Birch's 2019 novel. Structure, themes, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around kinship, place and the assimilation apparatus.
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Unit 3: Textual connections
3 texts- Margaret AtwoodCopyrightedThe Handmaid's Tale
QCE Unit 3 textual connections analysis of Atwood's 1985 novel. Structure, themes, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around Offred's testimony and the Historical Notes frame.
6 themesOpen -> - Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublic domainThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
QCE Unit 3 textual connections analysis of Coleridge's ballad. Structure, themes, examiner focus and an essay scaffold built around the frame narrative and Romantic ambiguity.
6 themesOpen -> - Charlotte Perkins GilmanPublic domainThe Yellow Wallpaper
QCE Unit 3 textual connections analysis of Gilman's short story. Themes, narration, examiner focus and essay scaffold focused on the wallpaper as accumulating symbol.
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