Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Paul Balsavich One of the most famous and widely read novels published after the First World War was The Good Soldier Svejk written by Jaroslav Hasek, a Czech in Bohemia under the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. It has […]
Nichole Hermann Questions of identity are at the heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, and Arthur Miller’s, Death of a Salesman. Both authors created characters who were searching for the American dream with deeply flawed […]
Carrie Grachowski Many times character development comes from an author’s personal life and this can clearly be seen in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and, more specifically, in his novel The Great Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald […]
Angeline Tomcik Dostoyevksy in The Brothers Karamazov is obsessed with the question of why evil exists and what this fact tells about the nature of life and God. This is done through the kind-hearted Alyosha. Dostoyevsky’s […]
Angela Bogat Voltaire is often credited with being an inspiration for the French Revolution and a writer who as much as anyone in history helped create a climate for social change to bring about a more […]
Edwardo Hernandez Every society has an identity that is shaped by the moral behavior of its citizens and the rules and regulations imposed by its government. In Gulliver’s Travels Swift uses each part to form a basis […]
Rita Hoffman Jonathan Swift has often been characterized as a misogynist in literary criticism. Indeed, he tends to categorize women, in his writings, as ladies, whores, servants or virgins, never presenting them as a whole person. Seldom […]
Full PDF version coming soon in early Summer 2017. For individual essays, please view the Journal Archive.
Professor Margo Gariepy “Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.” –Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the story of three individuals and their search forplace in the […]
Professor Joo Lee “Those who acquire [the art of writing] will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of […]