Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Dinaz Wadia In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” from The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), the narrator Alisoun’s unique portrayal of literature archetypes expresses and challenges social expectations of power and morality. The Wife of […]
Cassandra Lagunas Religious influence is not only evident in a general population’s behavior but in the conduct of literary characters, as well. During the sixteenth century, when Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) was written, revenge […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]