Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Dear Wright College Community, The Great Books Program is thrilled to introduce the sixth edition of the Symposium Journal. This journal serves as a platform for community college students to share their analyses of great […]
Julia Borrell Pozo In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is one of Othello’s most trusted officers and, simultaneously, a destabilizing, untrustworthy force. Scholars have disagreed as to whether intentional malevolence or irrational hatred drives Iago’s actions. […]
Allison Dell Otto Taken as a triptych, T. S. Eliot’s poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Sweeney Erect,” and “The Waste Land” offer a compelling, disturbing set of theses regarding the possibilities of […]
Amanda Jiang In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the reader meets Sofya (Sonya) Marmeladov—a daughter, a prostitute, and the partner of Raskolnikov. George Pattison calls her a “holy anorexic,” a popular figure of the good-hearted […]
Alisa Scott A conflict’s advancement within a novel is the direct result of a protagonist’s decision-making process. When an antihero is motivated by his or her vices, he or she may demonstrate a story’s deeper […]
Maria Nguyen The ability to seize power is not always apparent to the one who holds it. One’s use of power contributes to how effectively one’s desires are obtained through others. While Alisoun is the […]
Gabby Sotelo The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain explores questions of moral behavior. The character of Huckleberry Finn, specifically, acts in ways that are reckless and amoral. In fact, Huck Finn frequently is […]
Izaki Metropoulos Jacques Lacan’s Concept of Desire and the Discourse of the Other When approaching the Wife of Bath, I began with a simple Lacanian question: “Is desire located in the body or in human […]
Amanda Jiang is a rising senior at Smith College. A Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Fellow, she is investigating bio-psycho-social risk factors for combat-related PTSD and TBI among military personnel and veterans. During her spare time, […]