Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Barbara Sherman All authors draw upon past experiences, people they have known, places they have been, as well as their own philosophy of life to write. Ralph Ellison, in his book Shadow and Act refers […]
Carol Fosse Critics generally agree that Ralph Ellison’s award winning novel, Invisible Man, is a work of genius, broad in its appeal and universal in its meaning. Its various themes have been stated as: “the […]
Jeffrey Glenn Hemingway’s view of human nature was that happiness was rare and was found within a man and not in his outside circumstances or surroundings. Hemingway illustrates this in three ways. First, he portrays […]
Charles Brown While Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is usually interpreted as an intensely poetic description of despair, it can with equal validity be seen instead as mankind’s never ending yearning to find […]
Jack Wilson The early collaboration of the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic period of poetry. Together, these two poets laid the groundwork for this new style in the […]
Diana Tirado There are three main issues that Pope talks about in his long poem “Essay on Man.” First, the poet evokes a timeless vision of humanity in which the universe is connected to a […]
Neil A. Lumbowski In reading Beowulf, one cannot help noticing the abundance of references to weapons and armor throughout the text. Many passages involving weapons and armor contain important messages that the author is trying […]
Catherine Rodriguez Women took over Athens in Aristophanes’ Assembly of Women to set up a society that would make everyone happy and solve all social problems. The result was a disaster. The reason why is […]
Gabriela Arcan Alcibiades was a good illustration of a basically negative human being. Loaded with good qualities, he misused them in order to pursue his ambitions and his thirst for power. Tellingly, he was considered […]
Joseph Spisak The Sicilian Expedition was a catastrophe for the Athenians that all but made certain that they would lose the Peloponnesian War. It was a defeat not only for Athens, but also for the […]