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Spring 2023-2024 GBSJ Editorial Board: Gretta Komperda, Editor-in-ChiefGretta Komperda is a 2024 Wilbur Wright College graduate and plans to transfer toAmherst College in the fall where she will study English Literature. She is excited forwhat […]
Gretta Komperda The Canterbury Tales (c. 1392) by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of talesrich with characters who differ in social class and moral values. Despite thesedifferences, the women in The Canterbury Tales remain stereotypical […]
Eleanor Reft It is surprising to most modern readers of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)that the Creature can speak and express himself so eloquently. In the pervasive popculture perception, the Creature is incapable of communication and […]
Alannie Cervantes The expectations of women in ancient Greek society consisted of the duties ofbeing a mother and wife while maintaining family loyalty. In Sophocles’ Antigone (c.441 B.C.E.), these expectations compel the sisters, Antigone and […]
Marah Mohd Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal aired on NBC from 2013 to 2015. The show was anew adaptation of Thomas Harris’s popular Hannibal novels that reintroduced thecannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a fictional character who […]
Sergio Romero The Protestant Reformation, symbolically initiated by the German priestMartin Luther (14831546) in Wittenberg in 1517, assailed the bases of Europe in thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It fundamentally divided the continent, ending thepreviously ubiquitous […]
Marcy Frazier Sophocles’ Antigone invites our admiration, and justifiably, for even her self professed criminality can seem sanctioned by the gods. Antigone refuses to play it safe by rejecting the “proper” place given to women […]
Gretta Komperda is a 2024 Wilbur Wright College graduate and plans to transfer to Amherst College in the fall where she will study English Literature. She is excited for what the future of her education […]
Dear Reader, I am sincerely honored to present the 10th edition of the Great BooksSymposium Journal (GBSJ), a publication now more than twentyyears strong. Ourjournal has served as a longstanding staple of academia across City […]