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  • Othello: A Case Study of Problematic Themes in Shakespeare

    Anissa Mendez From adaptations made for modern audiences that place characters in the modern world to stageplays that honor the integrity and details of the original script, William Shakespeare’s works still hold a prominent place in today’s popular culture. However, adapting Shakespeare’s works now proves difficult as they were written in an era where patriarchal…

  • Who is Legion?

    Sarah Borchert Jesus is known for his miracles: turning water into wine, feeding massive crowds with a few loaves of bread, and walking on water. Beyond Jesus’ most famous miracles is a lesser known one, Jesus expelling demons from the Gerasene demoniac. This episode occurs in all three synoptic gospels, but this paper will focus…

  • “Fight Club”: The Cult of Tyler Durden

    Avery Poulter In 1999 came the release of David Fincher’s film, Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. The film’s plot follows an unnamed narrator’s encounter with the charismatic and anti-capitalist Tyler Durden, a fateful meeting that leads to the creation of what Tyler calls ‘fight club.’ What begins as a…

  • Mourning the Famous: Celebrity Gravesites at Père Lachaise Cemetery

    Sophia Auron Like many tourists, I visited Père Lachaise cemetery when I was in Paris, France. This cemetery is home to many famous graves, such as those of musical legends Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, and Jim Morrison. As I walked through the cemetery, I was struck by the objects left and the traditions surrounding them.…

  • Dua Lipa as Classical Greek Art

    Chieko Dunham A comparison of contemporary art and that of Classical Greek art chronicles the amazing and vast changes that human society has undergone, leaving room for discussion about the future of art and humanity. Art that is still particularly heavily influenced by the Greek Classical style is art that depicts the human figure, whether…

  • The Feminine Future of “The Terminator”

    Avery Poulter While the first The Terminator is remembered as a staple of the action and sci-fi genre, it is also considered by many to be a slasher-horror film due to the slasher tropes and frightening elements it employs, a choice its future sequels would fail to implement. With its internal subversion of the sexually…

  • Feminine Defiance: An Artistic Exploration of Proto-Feminism

    Megan Bogner Throughout history, few women artists’ works have been explored and celebrated as widely as male artists’ works. As will be further explored, this is often not due to a lack of talent or skill, but a lack of opportunity for women to learn the same artistic skills as men, whether through their perceived…

  • Gryffindor and Slytherin in the Aeneid

    Nola Walston For a book to be as influential and widely read as Harry Potter, there must be universal themes that it includes, such as love, death, and the relationship between good and evil to name some. Many of these can be traced back from Harry Potter to antiquity. Vergil’s Aeneid was one of the…

  • Women, Revenge, Memory, and Shakespeare

    Chieko Dunham The role of women in revenge plots, especially in older classic literature, is often a role that is hard to identify. Shakespeare, writer of many brilliant revenges, falls into this trap, affording many of his female characters a lack of agency. However, looking at certain Shakespeare plays with a talionic lens (“the law…

  • Resisting Gender in “The Left Hand of Darkness”

    Lola Chamberlain When reading literature, we normally assume that an author has complete control over what is fictionally true within a story, at least on the level of content. If an author asks us to imagine something is true within their story we meekly obey. We might criticize it on the grounds that in the…