Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Professor Phillip Virgen More has been said and written about William Shakespeare’s Hamlet than any other text in the Western literary tradition. For me to add my poor two cents worth, is tantamount to foolishness and […]
Ricky Abarca In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, one finds Polonius chastising Ophelia, pointing out that “with a larger tether may [Hamlet] walk, than may be given you” (1.3.134-135). Polonius’s wisdom lies not in identifying the length […]
Matthew Barge Death is a constant companion in revenge tragedies. Skulls, graves, corpses, duels and murder abound. After all, there must be something that needs revenging. T.S. Eliot says of John Webster, in “Whispers of […]
Lukasz Kornas The supernatural is a prominent theme in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hamlet. This form of spiritualism adds an important degree of depth to Shakespeare’s works. Depending on the play, the supernatural can either […]
Kimberly Barrios William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a classical revenge tragedy that encompasses the murder of a king, a treacherous queen, and their son’s desire for vengeance. Throughout the play, Hamlet not only grieves for his […]
Edipson Vinueza Desdemona, Emilia, Gertrude, and Ophelia—these are just a few names of the many women who inhabit William Shakespeare’s works. These characters represent womanhood both in the Shakespeare’s plays and the society in which […]
Edgar Esparza Within the Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy tradition, there is more than the narrative of a revenger forced to commit murder because of an absence of justice. The legal and historical parallels to […]
Edipson Vinueza is a Wilbur Wright College student pursuing an associate in science degree. He plans to transfer to the University of Illinois at Chicago to earn a degree in Biological Sciences and further his […]
The primary purpose of the Great Books Symposium Journal is to acknowledge and celebrate the exceptional analytical skills and critical research writing of students studying Great Books at Wilbur Wright, one of the City Colleges […]
Allen Loomis The Duchess of Malfi (1612-13), written by the Jacobean playwright John Webster, depicts a struggle between good and evil at an Italian court during the early 1500s. On one side, there is the […]