Contributors
Gretta Komperda is a first-year student at Wright College, currently pursuing an Associate of Arts, and she hopes to transfer to a prestigious four-year university at the end of her two years. She is president […]
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Letter from the Alumni Board
Dear Reader, Three years ago, amidst a global pandemic, we – the former editors of the Symposium Journal – reunited over a Zoom call. The reason for the reunion was simple: we wanted to catch […]
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Introduction
Dear Great Books Readers, Welcome, Wright community! We are pleased to present the ninth edition of the Great Books Student Symposium, a journal comprised of student-written and student-edited essays about the Great Books that showcase […]
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Introduction
unique – of which there is only oneOxford English Dictionary Dear Community Member/Reader, It is my honor to introduce the eighth issue of the Great Books Symposium Journal (GBSJ), a unique issue of a unique […]
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Othello’s Cyprus: A Tempest Impossible to Bear Out
Melissa Glontea The significance of setting is paramount in William Shakespeare’s Othello (c. 1603). It is the determinant contributing factor to the tragedies that occur in the play, at first supporting yet finally upending heroes and villains […]
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“Who Invented the Typical Girl?”: Geoffrey Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath as Punk Icon
Sara Walls The Wife of Bath is a controversial character, perhaps the most controversial out of Geoffrey Chaucer’s pilgrim pantheon. Her fiercely radical ideology inherently falls outside the proposed, socially acceptable, established mode of thought, […]
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Judicial Injustice in Elizabethan Theatre
Dianna Garzón In Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, there is a standard narrative of corruption within the court system, evoking a feeling of obligation for the lead avenger to seek a form of justice known as […]
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Iago’s Art
Sofie Kellar “He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most” (Hesiod, Works and Days, 23). In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (c. 1603), Iago […]
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Subverted Gender Roles in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Yaryna Dyakiv A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595) by William Shakespeare is a comedy that examines relationships between men and women, as well as gender roles. Some influential scholars, like Sukanta Chaudhuri and James Calderwood, view A […]
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Alisoun’s Critique on Virtue and Sovereignty in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
Dinaz Wadia In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” from The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), the narrator Alisoun’s unique portrayal of literature archetypes expresses and challenges social expectations of power and morality. The Wife of […]