Renouncing relations and the amputated identity
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Of everything we’ve read this semester, I have to admit that Middlesex has been the least gripping for me. Maybe it’s the pace, Cal’s voice, switching from “Angles in America,” predominantly dialogue, to lengthy prose, or maybe it’s something in me–my disintegrated family, my hurting heart–that makes it the wrong book to read at the […]
Renouncing relations and the amputated identity
Tags: alliance, Family, Identity, Jeffrey Eugenides, kinship, Middlesex, self
Posted in May 7, Sophia Curran | No Comments »
When Did We Start Thinking About Marriage?
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Scarlet Letter motivates me to examine the human pursuit of truth and happiness in “The Minister in A Maze”. Hester’s moment of confession reveals that happiness for her, her lover and her former spouse, involves more than the revelation of truth. In fact, truth here is conflated with happiness. Hawthorne illustrates that happiness for […]
When Did We Start Thinking About Marriage?
Tags: aliiance, Dimmesdale, Family, Hester, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 26, Kwame K. Ocran | 2 Comments »
