While reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, I felt something similar with The Incredible Hulk. Both of these stories used similar concepts with characters and made me wonder if The Hulk was inspired by it. So in this blog, I want to compare the two stories and their origins. The Strange Case […]
In class, we discussed the manifesto of Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, and how its main idea was how people should not rely on and pray to a god or higher power, but instead rely on our brilliance as a species. It does this by showing humans relationships with the gods specifically Greek gods. In this […]
Aurora Leigh, a girl born from an Italian mother and an English father who is sent to her strict English aunt after her father dies. Considering the fact that poor Aurora Leigh is now an orphan, you would imagine that her aunt would at least try to be a loving person. Well you are wrong. […]
In class this week we read a poem by Charlotte Smith. The poem that we read was called, “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex”. “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex” is about science, religion, death, romantic irony and nature, which were all key elements of the time period. After reading this […]
In class, we briefly discussed the history of slavery, and the stories of Mary Prince and Olaudah Equiano. These two wrote about their experiences of being slaves. Before I read Olaudah Equiano’s story, I always thought of how negative slavery was and never looked at what it taught America. I decided in this post I […]
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