Introduction
Dead White Men… This criticism that often accompanies Great Books is unwarranted. The analysis of Shakespeare, Plato, Byron, and Kant, for instance, that appears within this issue of the Great Books Symposium Journal expresses the […]
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Contributors
Nina Astorino graduated from Prospect High School with honors distinction. She will graduate with honors this spring from Harper College, where she was a member of Phi Theta Kappa and where she was awarded the […]
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Hyde-ing the Hero: An Analysis of Moral Corruption in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Feodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Victor Colome In the context of literature, a story rarely has no effect on the reader. Intentionally or not, authors always leave behind lessons of some kind. This logic can be applied to all tales […]
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The Faust in Dorian: Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gina Vasquez The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is a novel wrapped in controversy and debate. Oscar Wilde wrote the novel during England’s Victorian era, and the book faced immense criticism due its society’s strict […]
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The Gay in Gray: Homoeroticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gabriela Sotelo The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde is well-known for its sexual provocation and its underlying homoerotic element. Sections of the novel were used against Wilde during his indecency trials in […]
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Mother’s Job to Maintain the World
Cassandra Lagunas Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) has long been considered a revolutionary novel because of its feminist, scientific and moral values. The mother figure, at first glance a minor presence, represents these values and serves […]
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Philosophizing William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: An Analysis of Hamlet’s Development
Sophia Metropoulos Philosophical schools of thought are integrated into many, if not all of William Shakespeare’s works. Hamlet (c 1599), in particular, evokes the inspection of human desire, knowledge, and emotions through the creation of […]
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Macbeth’s Will Against Time in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Robert Pacheco “It was” — that is the name of the will’s gnashing of teeth and most secret melancholy. Powerless against what has been done, he is an angry spectator of all that is past. […]
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The Redemption of the Fall of Eve in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Nina Astorino Throughout history, humanity has been obsessed with the idea of sin, an obsession which spans from most traditional religions to many works of literature and film. Original sin in the Christian doctrine refers […]
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A Literary Feast: William Shakespeare, Paradox, and Rosemary’s Many Meanings
Madeleine Iaco “Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?” (2.4.201-02). And doth not rosemary improve most recipes? Used long before Shakespeare’s day, the herb rosemary has a long history of culinary flavor, […]