By Max Pancer for the course Rhetoric Instructor: Roy Cartlidge Challenging the Exterior The view out of the fogged window was worse than I had anticipated. The sky was a mixture of white and ash grey, with not a strand of blue nor a streak of sunshine in sight. Below stood drooping trees, which appeared to have had their lives drained. Although it was April, the wailing trees contained not a single green leaf, or a leaf of any…
By Shannon Maroutian for the course Introduction to College English Instructor: Liana Bellon The True Wildean Dandy: An Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) incorporates the unconventional philosophies of the Wildean dandy, which are divided among the three main characters: Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, and Lord Henry. By creating a true dandy out of specific aspects of various characters rather than making one character entirely a dandy, Wilde…
By Alanna Nussbaum for the course The Castaway Narrative Instructor: Rebecca Million It is Never Too Late . . . “’He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance, and to give remission’” (Defoe 98). In the novel Robinson Crusoe, the author, Daniel Defoe, expresses the idea that repentance is possible – it is never too late to return to G-d. The author effectively brings out this idea by using logos and rhetorical questions, examples, and allusion….
By Bridget Butler For the course Literary Criticism Instructor: Prof. Neil Hartlen Feminism in “The Boarding House” While feminist criticism does, as its name suggests, concern itself with women and women’s issues, it also encompasses a much broader area of study. Not only does it deal with works by female authors and consider feminist points of view, it also examines the ways in which male authors portray women in their works. An example of this is James Joyce’s “The…
By Sara Tomaszewski for the course Love Among the Ruins Instructor: Marie-Thérèse Blanc False Expectations of Love in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre depicts the coming of age of a young woman, Jane, who encounters love as she comes to work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, an isolated gloomy mansion in England. Edward Rochester, the owner of the property, soon becomes dear to her heart. After a dismal childhood, Jane finally experiences admiration, kindness, and…
By Jacqueline Bush for the course Introduction to College English Instructor: Irene Ogrizek “Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing”: Objecting to Objectification The objectification of women has been going on for centuries, gaining publicity as the roles and rights of women evolved and changed over the last several decades. As Margaret Atwood demonstrates in her 1996 poem entitled “Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing”, objectification runs far deeper than women simply being demeaned by men’s desires. In the poem,…
By Matthew Stark for the course Native Perspectives Instructor: Susan Briscoe Waskaganish My story starts in August 2011, but first let me tell you how it ends, or at least the closest thing to an ending this story has. My name is Matthew Stark, and in the past year and a half I have become increasingly interested in reading more about aboriginal themed books, attending aboriginal themed lectures, and finally taking a “Native Perspectives” English course. Now, why this…