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I’m Scared There Are Other Worlds inside of My World

I walked by a stretch of grass and saw a shriveled figure among the stems. I called out to it. “What has happened to you?” The mishapen body cried back, “There are other worlds inside of my world.” I approached the creature. I took its hand up in my grasp. “There is only this world,”Continue reading “I’m Scared There Are Other Worlds inside of My World”

Ms. Beth

Act 1, Scene 5 Enter Lady Macbeth. She’s alone, reading a letter.  LADY MACBETH (reading the letter) They met mein my glory days, and they knew more thanmortal men. I wanted to know what they knew,but they turned into nothing more than nothingness.While I stood wondering, hailed as this“Thane of Cawdor”, as the Weird SistersContinue reading “Ms. Beth”

Taking Flight—The Uniquely Human Envy of Birds as a Pastoral Narrative

The return of the robin to the northeastern regions of America brings with it spring, like how the arrival of the dark-eyed junco from Canada usually brings with it the first snow. Crows are often a harbinger of bad luck, while the peacock might represent great fortune. Birds are a common literary symbol, representing ourContinue reading “Taking Flight—The Uniquely Human Envy of Birds as a Pastoral Narrative”

Is AI Art Really ‘Art?’

Recent breakthroughs in how humans teach artificial intelligence have allowed generative AI models to become highly prevalent and easily accessible in our current day and age. In the training process, machine learning models are often fed data, then human trainers will categorize this data and ‘teach’ AI how to replicate similar responses through system guidelinesContinue reading “Is AI Art Really ‘Art?’”

The Split Chestnut and Jane Eyre

Reflection: Why does your response to this literature matter?             For my unessay project, I wanted to do something that involved mixed media/painting. I thought that this would be a welcome change from the traditional essay that I had written earlier in the semester, and also give me some more opportunity to play around withContinue reading “The Split Chestnut and Jane Eyre”

The Death of Flame and the Birth of Ash: Life as Depicted in Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart

The cultural identity behind a life exists in many quiet and loud ways; a simple definition of life would focus merely on the physical presence of a thing, but such straightforwardness ignores the multiplicity of ways in which human identity—an identity that will often live beyond the body—can be created. By analyzing fire as aContinue reading “The Death of Flame and the Birth of Ash: Life as Depicted in Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart”

A Queer Retelling of The Song of Kiều

một 𠬠 Let’s only listen to this love song in the rain, Where history is muddied by our layers. In the Chia-Ching reign of Ming dynasty, There was peace among the people. Sương lived just as any other woman might. She was only loved by candlelight and by men Who she wished did not alwaysContinue reading “A Queer Retelling of The Song of Kiều”