Finally, we have reached a discussion on “Antigone” by Sophocles. I think this is a tricky piece for a few reasons: first, the moral dilemma that Antigone faces is very debatable… You can’t really argue that what she did was correct or incorrect or whether you would or would not do the same. Also, there are a few ambiguous motifs that come up quite ( Read more... )

Since we already went to town on discussing the foils in “A Doll’s House” I kind of want to just focus on hidden meanings and such. The most prevalent, in my opinion, would be Nora’s character development ( Read more... )

Considering how much Dr. AC has been stressing the idea of foils in “Hamlet”, “Antigone”, and “A Doll’s House”, I feel like I should use these next three posts to practice up on those concepts, and to throw in some extra thoughts to practice for the final exam that’s coming up ( Read more... )

Here’s something I just thought of: what if the clutter of the titles with their citations are part of the symbolism? What if Holzer meant to show that relationships are always complicated and messy by showing how disorganized everything can look, even if the literal meaning of what’s being said is positive and clear? If I wanted to argue that, I ( Read more... )

It’s been a while since we looked at it, but I didn’t realize how many posts I still need to complete and I’m going to talk about “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape” by Amanda Holzer. This was my first choice for my poetry analysis paper topic, but after looking into it a little more, I kind of realized that I had nothing to argue ( Read more... )

In the same class that I read about “The Yellow Wallpaper,” I also read “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” So, I already feel like I know a good amount about what this story portrays. And even though I’ve already decided I’m going to write my short story analysis on “A Worn Path”, I feel like I should still do a quick post about what I noticed ( Read more... )

So… “A Rose for Emily”? Disgusting. Sure, we already talked about it more than enough today, but I’m sure one more live journal post about it won’t kill you. So what do I think Faulkner wanted to say through this story? I’ll revolve this around the dangers of gossip and prejudgment ( Read more... )

I know I already talked about “A Worn Path” and my plans for using that as my essay topic, but I might end up using “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. To be honest, I’m already familiar with the story from my high school English course so I feel like that’ll give me a leg up in trying to come up with an arguable thesis. But, even ( Read more... )

I finally know exactly what I’m going to write about in my research paper on 1984: government corruption. It may seem super obvious, if you’ve read the book, that the entire story warns against government dominance, but I’m going to look at it in a different way; I’m going to argue that each of the Ministries of the government of Oceania serve as a ( Read more... )

 So the other day, we talked about the story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. Everyone was shooting ideas back and forth about the theme of the story, ranging from “love makes you do lots of things” to “sometimes we don’t know why we do things.” However, the way I see it is it seems like Eudora Welty is trying to show that people do crazy things for ( Read more... )