Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Noel Nicoletti Many of the greatest novels of all time center their themes on issues of morality and the consequences of living righteous or evil lives. The Tale of Genji is no exception. Written by […]
Jennifer Proce It has been commonly observed that during the time of the late Roman Republic, society was feeling the destructive effects of many years of civil wars. These wars were responsible for a breakdown […]
Joseph J. Mauro This essay will argue that Cato the Younger’s constant and unbending opposition to The First Triumvirate, specifically Pompey, caused the Roman democracy to crumble and Caesar to emerge as dictator. First, I […]
Walter Trentadue What is love? One of the problems with trying to define love is that we often end up using the word love itself in the definition. This is a fundamental problem. According to […]
Paul Otake Socrates, through Diotima, says that every soul is pregnant and the ultimate end every person seeks is immortality. The pursuit of knowledge cannot go on forever because the knowledge we obtain is soon […]
Claudia Echevarria Written by Euripides in 431 BCE, the Hellenic Age of Greece, Medea is a play that shocks by addressing cutting edge issues in a time when outsiders and women were considered inferior to […]
Jonathan Swift in his writing often mentions the female body with repugnance. He very often dwells with exaggerated horror both at the sight of a woman’s body performing its normal bodily functions or and at […]
Robert Jablonsky Although a one of the greatest, if not the greatest comic novel ever written, Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes is also a masterpiece of serious ideas. One of them, in fact, concerns the […]
Tracy Wagner This paper will focus on the types of humor used and the role humor plays in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Specifically, it will analyze Cervantes’ use of parody, satire, irony and slapstick. Cervantes had […]
Carolyn Horn Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines an agnostic as “a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality as God is unknown and probably unknowable” (23). Cicero, Roman statesman, democrat, rhetorician and lawyer […]