Flexing the Nexus
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Rereading Toni Morrison’s foreword to Sula at the end of the novel was indispensable in cementing my comprehension of the story. While I understand that the desire to have an audience consider a text alongside a set of principles requires a strategic placement of them, Morrison’s preface doesn’t do justice to the words that follow; […]
Flexing the Nexus
Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, relativism, Religion, Sula, The Scarlet Letter, Time, Toni Morrison, Truth
Posted in April 16, Sophia Curran | No Comments »
Foucault and ‘A Flood of Sunshine’
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The most extravagant shift in Hawthorne’s novel is one mobilized by a light that can come only after an extreme darkness: Hester and Dimmesdale’s meeting in the forest is traced by their mutual illuminations on personal truth in contrast to the “human law” and the “higher truth” that govern their fellow townsfolk (217). Their revelations […]
Foucault and ‘A Flood of Sunshine’
Tags: freedom, Michel Foucault, morality, Nathaniel Hawthorne, peace, personal truth, power-knowledge, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 26, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »
Evil Senses
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
In class yesterday we talked a bit about eyes (sight) and mirrors (reflection) as symbols in The Scarlett Letter. Our discussion focused on how the characters’ perceptions of themselves and their surroundings are shaped by the peculiar, perhaps deceiving, sense of sight. I would like to continue on this vein and explore how Hawthorne portrays […]
Evil Senses
Tags: Evil, eyes, intuition, mirrors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, reflection, sight, The Devil, The Scarlet Letter, Truth
Posted in February 19, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »