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On the Readings

Evolution and Situated Freedom in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

Our lecture yesterday was wonderfully insightful… but my god was it complicated! So much to think about on so many levels! I think my head will explode as I write this blog post. The one thing I think I understood well enough to reflect on is the idea of evolution and how it is portrayed […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Darwinism, Eliot, Evolution, GEliot, George Eliot, On the Readings, Situated Freedom, The Mill on the Floss

Magic and Power in the Tempest

I think that The Tempest is a play that many people can relate to. It’s got a political aspect for all those smart politically-inclined individuals, presents a wonderful social-commentary for fans of satire, and is wonderfully humorous to the layman looking for a good laugh. For me, what interests me most about The Tempest is […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Magic, On the Readings, power, Shakespeare, The Tempest

My Thoughts on Antigone

After somehow managing to get through The Republic, I was under the impression that I would never again have so many questions about a single piece of writing. As usual, I was wrong. Looking back on Sophocles’ Antigone, I realize that there are many little things that confuse me now that I seem not to have noticed […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Antigone, Confusion, On the Readings, Sophocles, tragedy

Plato’s Republic: Book III

In Book III of The Republic, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus extend the concept of the kallipolis introduced in the preceding conversation, establishing several key ideas about the ways in which it is necessary to educate and train the souls and bodies of the city’s “guardians”, how the three classes of peoples within the city are decided […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with On the Readings, Plato, Republic, Socrates, The Republic

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