Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Edgar Esparza Within the Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy tradition, there is more than the narrative of a revenger forced to commit murder because of an absence of justice. The legal and historical parallels to […]
Edipson Vinueza is a Wilbur Wright College student pursuing an associate in science degree. He plans to transfer to the University of Illinois at Chicago to earn a degree in Biological Sciences and further his […]
The primary purpose of the Great Books Symposium Journal is to acknowledge and celebrate the exceptional analytical skills and critical research writing of students studying Great Books at Wilbur Wright, one of the City Colleges […]
Allen Loomis The Duchess of Malfi (1612-13), written by the Jacobean playwright John Webster, depicts a struggle between good and evil at an Italian court during the early 1500s. On one side, there is the […]
Sandra Cruz Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels, depicts a negative image of women. However, following Swift’s life from the beginning, it is easier to understand why he views women as he does. Life’s circumstances have […]
Professor Bruce Gans One of the most common misconceptions students and faculty who do not read the Great Books have is that because these works were written in the past—often in the very distant past, […]
Professor Daniel Borzutzky Honored Members of the Academy! You have done me the honor of inviting me to give a report on the individual and the community, and to do so, I would like to […]
Professor Michael Petersen One of the greatest discrepancies between the work of Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson’s criticism of that work concerns the idea of “nature” and its operation in relation to that which is “moral” and […]
Anthony Trujillo William Faulkner’s novel, The Hamlet, is the tragic tale of a world filled with melancholy, self-destruction, and man’s ability to endure. Faulkner’s characters fall victim to the harsh, cruel earth and the gloomy […]
Roxanne A. Domingo Many characters in The Hamlet are reminiscent of various gods and goddesses in Greek mythology. Some references are overt, referring directly to the god or goddess by name, whereas others subtly assume […]