I love this class. It definitely expanded my horizons. I never really read poetry before I took this class. I found out that I love William Blake and the emotions and imagery brought forth from his flow of words. Before this class I never looked at movies to see what the deeper significance of the symbols and situations were. I just saw the story ( Read more... )

I decided to do my research paper on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This book has, in many ways, shaped my vocabulary and views on literature. I started reading, and re-reading, the book when I was teenager, but that wasn’t my first introduction to the book. My interest in the book was inspired after a neighbor had my family and I watch her ( Read more... )

I love Ursula Le Guin as an author. I read her book called “The Left Hand of Darkness”. I also read a compilation of her short stories. She generally writes science fiction. In all her writing, story setting is not the main thing she writing about. Her stories often take place on other planets, but the people are so real in her stories that you ( Read more... )

“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” was very interesting, interesting in the sense of the Chinese Proverb “May you live in interesting times”. It discusses blood, gore and violence in pretty blunt terms. It was not a prim and proper book, and yet the spirit was the same. The characters were mostly the same but in vastly different circumstances. The ( Read more... )

Movies are amazing. They take us places we could never ordinarily go. They can take you to the furthest reaches of Africa to the little apartment in New York. They can show us anyone from the President to space aliens. However I think the movie’s greatest achievement is the way a movie brings history and literature to life. I started liking ( Read more... )

Love and Other Catastrophes: a Mix Tape was a brilliant poem, fraught with meaning and full of subtlety. It is simply a list of song titles, but the titles tell the tale. I thought the title list was profound. To me it looked like an epic and tragic cycle. Before we discussed it in class, I never even thought to listen to the songs in order. The ( Read more... )

What would you do in order to follow your God or Gods and your faith? Antigone was willing to give her life for the honor of her faith and the honor of her family. No law put forth by man was going to stop her from burying her brother according to tradition and religious law. She believed she would be under a curse if she let her brother’s body lie ( Read more... )

When one hears the word prophecy, they think of destiny, knowledge of the future, and the mystical or supernatural. Prophecies have shown up many times in stories, plays, literature and history. With prophecies come prophets and their divine or supernatural source. One of the seemingly most common prophecies is the self-fulfilling prophecy. In the ( Read more... )

Everyone has heard the phrase “vengeance is dish best serve cold”. In Hamlet, vengeance is the source of tragedy. Hamlet is a prince whose father dies and his father’s ghost comes to visit him. The ghost says that he has been murdered by means of poison by the betraying brother. Hamlet was quite upset naturally and concocted a brilliant plan. ( Read more... )

“A Yellow Rose for Emily” was a disturbing story. It showed quiet clearly what can happen to an oppressed person that is isolated for too long. As the story went along it related a good bit of Emily’s history. She grew up under the thumb of a mean and controlling father that ran off anyone interested in her. When he died in his home her mind couldn ( Read more... )