Watchmen: Impediments, Failures, and Splits in Understanding
This paper will be an examination of impediments, failures, and splits in attempts to understand reality.
The Past, Present, and Future in The Road
The past can be a dangerous thing. Post-traumatic stress disorder, for instance, affects one’s future in innumerable ways, molding itself into fear and sadness, leaving one trapped at the bottom of the past’s well, the rope unreachable.
In His Time: How Ernest Hemingway Defines and Promotes Masculinity in In Our Time.
Overall, the portrayal of themes of masculinity and femininity in In Our Times is not clear-cut. Whilst seemingly a direct attack on women, Hemingway in fact prioritizes his attack on femininity, whether embodied by man or woman […]
Liberty in Leviathan
This paper argues that although Hobbes advocates for authoritarian government, parts of his argument still tilt towards liberty.
Just Ideas? An analysis of the use of political authority to bring about justice in the world
This essay will explore these uses of political authority beginning with the works of Sophocles, Plato, Hobbes, Hemingway, and Marx. The essay will argue that these deployments of authority find their beginnings in the conceptualization of justice.
Enlightenment for Dummies: The Simple Guide to ‘Finding Yourself’ by Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that On the Genealogy of Morality was written to tell us that, should we become aware of the flaws in the values on which he writes and alter our opinions accordingly, we just might happen to ‘find ourselves one day’ (GM, Preface, p.1).
The Bear, the Bird, and the Irishman: An Examination of the Loss of Innocence in “The Sound of Singing”
In the last images of the text, Dan has left the house, and with him innocence has left as well. Vanessa races to catch up to the fading sound of his singing, but doubts she’ll ever reach it.
The American Nightmare: Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
Although they may not seem similar at first glance, the novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Bell Jar share the same goal: to make readers aware of how the American Dream can be detrimental to young people.
Watchmen and The Odyssey on the Nature of Violence
[…] the characters are meant to be human, truly human, with all the limitations of a normal human being, and the way in which the reader can identify this humanity is through their exposure to violence.
“A Lightning Burst of Knowingness”: What Chris Reveals About the Connor-MacLeod Family in A Bird in the House
[…] Chris sheds light on the different ways Vanessa’s family engages in arguments and conflict, and the ways they try (though they don’t always succeed) to communicate with one another.