Volume IV Spring 2017 – Revenge Tragedy Special Edition
Full PDF version coming soon in early Summer 2017. For individual essays, please view the Journal Archive.
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The Individual and Society: Three Narratives in Frankenstein
Professor Margo Gariepy “Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.” –Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the story of three individuals and their search forplace in the […]
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Memory, Computer Technology, and Identity at the New Millennium
Professor Joo Lee “Those who acquire [the art of writing] will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of […]
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The Past as Prologue and The Search for Identity
Professor Harriet Rosenman The Phi Theta Kappa Honors Topic, The Past as Prologue, is the perfect entry to the current Great Books Program topic, the Search for Identity. We develop our identities not through our […]
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Hamlet and the Problem of Identity
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 […]
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Hamlet – Prisoner of His Own Kingdom
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 […]
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“The Skull Beneath the Skin”: Death in The Revenger’s Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi
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 […]
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An Analysis of the Roles of the Supernatural in Macbeth and Hamlet
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 […]
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Hamlet’s Distorted Grief
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 […]
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Women: Misogyny in Othello and Hamlet
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 […]