Candy’s blog post for 30 March
Why Comics in Arts One: The Power of Visuals (posted on behalf of Candy, whose blog isn’t working) To be honest, I never had a thing for comics. For my taste, I’d rather experience a story and it’s world through … Continue reading →
The Crucible
Whether human nature is good or bad has been discussed in a few works we have read. Hobbes argues that human being is naturally bad and the existence of sovereignty and laws is primarily to stop people hurting each other. I agreed with Hobbes’s idea when reading Leviathan, but when reading The Crucible, I feel that laws and society […] Continue reading →
The Crucible: What’s in a Name
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play diverse in its approach, themes, ideas and messages. Miller takes the play to form as a cornucopia of political, social and psychological topics. The Crucible is famously known as a play with political theme, at face value an attack against theocracy, but is commonly associated with the […] Continue reading →
Things Fall Apart: Misfortune
Samantha Lee 17 March, 2015 I enjoyed reading the book “Things Fall Apart”. The book allows readers to have a deeper understanding towards the native african culture. The rituals and folk stories are very interesting to me. The book is filled with festive atmosphere yet there is also underlying fear from time to time. To […]
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Pigmintation
Black Skin, White Masks Blog Post Jummy Ha, After reading Black Skin, White Masks, the part that I am invested in most are first the use of pidgin language toward the ‘other’–the inferior blacks, and second, the mulatto. The idea of making language simpler and blunt not only creates the inferiority complex, it also emphasizes that black society […] Continue reading →
Addressing Our Inner Racist.
Black Skin White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon had me thinking: is there a racist side to all of us? Somehow there’s this percieved notion of the desirable, default race that others aspire to imitate, conciously and subconciously. People, for the most part, do not tend to imitate the Japanese or the Chinese, the South Africans or […] Continue reading →
Black Skin, White Masks Blog Post
Jummy Ha After reading this book, or collection of essay-like chapters, the part that I am interested in most are two topics.First the use of pidgin language toward the ‘other’—the inferior blacks, and second, the mulatto. The idea of making language simpler and blunt not only creates the inferiority complex’, it also suggests emphasizes that […] Continue reading →
“Mitsein” in Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
What I found especially enjoyable about reading Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper together was the way in which Gilman’s text functioned as a sort of case study for Beauvoir’s questions surrounding femininity. I found the concept of “Mitsein” that Beauvoir references in The Second Sex to be of particular interest. Beauvoir writes that “Male and […] Continue reading →
Becoming ‘zombie’ in Northanger Abbey
Taisei Inoue As I read through ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen, it reminds me of the scenery I saw in Bath during my winter break. It is a great pleasure for me, being able to imagine characters walking the streets of Bath visiting Pump-room, which is still what most of tourist do when they visit […] Continue reading →
Female Characters in Northanger Abbey
In Northanger Abby by Jane Austen, she provides different types of female characters in her novel. Many times authors in the 1800s just offered two types; the maternal figure and the gossiping socialite. Very few portrayed a female character as the heroine. While Austen includes the maternal and gossiping socialite characters, she makes the main character […] Continue reading →