Loving Her Was Red: The Dichotomy of Love and Desire According To Sappho and Taylor Swift
Both women display remarkable agency as they examine the undervalued world of female love and desire; both women, as Swift says in “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)”, invite us to dive into this world with them “head first, fearless”.
Destined Distance Between Melville, Tommo, and the Typee
The Valley is Eden, the people are gods and goddesses, the structures are antiquities, and Tommo—as well as Melville—can only ever be a corrupt civilized man.
Atmospheric Prisons and Incomplete Epiphanies in The Matrix and Jane Austen’s Emma
Emma’s moments of self-realization parallel those of Neo through the symbolic use of these atmospheric techniques, which serves to emphasize first the reluctance and doubt, then later the freeing acceptance of truth for both characters.
Heroes and Heroism in Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen
Ultimately, no heroes exist in Watchmen. The superheroes have abandoned compassion, instead choosing campaigns that leave them bereft in the act of saving actual human beings and almost fully empty of real heroism.
Austen’s Emma: Self-Knowledge and Growth
Satirically critiquing her characters’ behaviours and the English society in which they—and she—live, Jane Austen sketches a vivid portrait of her characters, their flaws, and the confines under which they operate in Emma.
The Danger of the Unclassifiable Form: Hybridity, Rulership, and Knowledge within Cavendish’s Blazing World
The Empress overlooks gaps within her own understanding in favour of creating an empirical understanding of the world around her; she rejects the hybridity of the animal men, and she rejects knowledge of the immaterial world.
The Restrictive Power of Schools and Streets in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me exposes both groups as manifestations of how America methodically oppresses black people, specifically by accentuating the power and prestige of those who believe they are white.
This World of My Devising: The Author as Authority and Other in Cavendish’s The Blazing World
This essay concentrates on the treatment of authority and authorship in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, particularly through the lens of otherness.