Category Archives: Projects Spring 2024

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” many of the characters struggle with mental health issues including the title character Hamlet. Throughout the play Hamlet is seen as mad and insane by those around him being ostracized and pushed away more and more as the play goes on. Shakespeare is considered one of if not the greatest storyteller toContinue reading “Hamlet: A Good or Bad Portrayal of Mental Health”

By Jordan Witham Undead Wanderer  Thin crystal skin Cut from dead kin Stretched over bone Before, as live as stone  A cold heart that throbs  Yearning for what was robbed  An undead, towering structure  Searching for its constructor  Rightful Company  Why must I live When he will not give What I need to survive  IsContinue reading “Poems of Frankenstein”

Throughout human history, the moon has long served as a figure or symbol in various cultures. It is not uncommon for the moon to be associated with theological or mythological entities. Common too, is that the personification of the moon as that of a feminine figure. European personifications of the moon, such as the GreekContinue reading “The Moon as a Maternal Figure in Wordsworth’s “The Idiot Boy” and Robinson’s “The Maniac“ as Romantic Era Personification to Sympathize with the Intellectually Disabled”

Judas’ story ends in him hanging himself. His deviation from God, betraying Jesus left him empty, but did he choose this path? After selling out Jesus with the fateful “kiss,” Judas tries to repent. Though, the betrayal of Jesus ends in the suicide of Judas; due to his overwhelming guilt. Judas’ story is often theContinue reading “Free Will and Creation in Christianity”

by Blake Carpenter – You wake with a drought of Knowledge Of where you are – of where You’ve been, and where you’re Headed. Butt-ends pepper the street And ‘twixt the toes of Feathered feet.[1]          You[2] are Observer[3] – you are Machine, yet you are Flesh – and now, you rise from a bench. ItContinue reading “Babel of Western Greats”

In modern British literature (which I am loosely defining as the period between 17th-20th centuries) and the culture from which that literature emerged, “madness” was a condemning and powerful word, but also a generic word that could mean many things. To call someone “mad” was for the most part an act of dehumanization. People whoContinue reading ““Madness” and Neurodivergence in Modern British Literature”