Gods and Monsters and Mink Snopes
Professor Bruce Gans One of the most common misconceptions students and faculty who do not read the Great Books have is that because these works were written in the past—often in the very distant past, […]
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On Kafka’s Report to an Academy: Great Books Symposium Speech
Professor Daniel Borzutzky Honored Members of the Academy! You have done me the honor of inviting me to give a report on the individual and the community, and to do so, I would like to […]
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Samuel Johnson’s Macbeth: Moral Community and the Tragedy of Exclusion
Professor Michael Petersen One of the greatest discrepancies between the work of Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson’s criticism of that work concerns the idea of “nature” and its operation in relation to that which is “moral” and […]
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Characters and Demons in Faulkner’s The Hamlet
Anthony Trujillo William Faulkner’s novel, The Hamlet, is the tragic tale of a world filled with melancholy, self-destruction, and man’s ability to endure. Faulkner’s characters fall victim to the harsh, cruel earth and the gloomy […]
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The Hamlet: Exploring its Myths
Roxanne A. Domingo Many characters in The Hamlet are reminiscent of various gods and goddesses in Greek mythology. Some references are overt, referring directly to the god or goddess by name, whereas others subtly assume […]
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Love and Society: In Pride and Prejudice
Marika Malkerson Elizabeth is a strong willed, intelligent young woman in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth’s community of friends and family are obsessed with the idea of marriage. It is her mother’s greatest wish […]
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Happiness – Dependent Or Independent of Society? Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Crystal Dynia Jane Austen argues in Pride and Prejudice that true happiness can be achieved but not as society defines it. Austen argues furthermore that instead an individual can only find happiness independent of society. […]
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Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
Jacqueline Barrett During the early nineteenth century most of Europe experienced a dramatic transformation. Accompanying the greater emphasis on reason during the Enlightenment was a zealous exploration of human nature. Several Europeans, such as Rousseau, […]
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What Makes People Happy and What Does Not: Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas
Cecilia Melendez The longer one lives and experiences life, the more opportunities one has to learn that there is often a gap between what people assume will make them happy and what actually will. Indeed, […]
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One Night Stand With Joseph Andrews
Adriana Andrasz One of the main points of Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is to describe the sexually oppressed society in which the author was living. Fielding exposes the sexually immoral society that hides behind riches […]