Sprockets and Springes

Savannah Tessier  Professor Helms  EN 3695.01 3/03/2024 In society women have been faced with extreme sexism and viewed as objects for generations upon generations. This has occurred throughout all countries and cultures dripping its effects into literature. Women have been misrepresented in novels in many sexist ways and female authors had even published work underContinue reading “Finding Sexism With Critical Theories in Literature “

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel is many things: a cautionary tale, a harsh critique of scientific progress at any cost, and also in many ways a feminist text, presenting the alarming consequences of what happens when men intoxicated by their own power attempt to play God. In the following essay I will attempt to interpret FrankensteinContinue reading “A Feminist, Assemblage Theory Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Hamlet’s famous quote “to be or not to be” from act three scene one, simply means life or death. He is in a sticky situation as he is contemplating living or actually putting an end to all his suffering and turmoil. Questioning life and its unfairness versus actually committing suicide and not knowing what happensContinue reading “Life or Death?”

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”