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Literary Criticism


Through the Looking-Glass of Time: Lewis Carroll’s Reflection on Childhood, Growth, and Identity Through the Looking-Glass of Time: Lewis Carroll’s Reflection on Childhood, Growth, and Identity
Growing up feels like being wrenched from a dream. One might hold onto the vanishing visions, but reality urges to push you ahead. Childhood, seemingly blissful and filled with wonder, unravels so that rules engulf imagination and certainty replaces curiosity. No one can avoid this transformation, as it will inevitably happen. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , Lewis Carroll captures this shift, crafting a land where nonsense rules and author
Charleigh Hayes
Oct 2717 min read


God is a woman: Female Autonomy in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Under the shining moonlight in a dark green forest, the sparking embers of a warm fire pierce through the darkness, casting flickering shadows on the faces of those gathered around. The air hums with the low murmur of conversation, the soft clinking of bottles, and the crackling of fire while the scent of roasting meat fills the night. Horses snort softly in the background, their silhouettes blending with the thick forest as if drawn to the moment’s warmth. In the center of t
Avery Wang
Oct 2710 min read


Debriefing Dickenson Poems
Poems are a way that people can connect with each other. Poems can be used to prove a point or tell a story. However, many poems have...
Matthew Wiles
Oct 44 min read


Is True Love Real?
The American dream has been seen to have love, success, and happiness inside of it. Nevertheless, Janie Crawford and Jay Gatsby chase...
Eleanor Kohnen
Sep 294 min read


Rewriting Reality: The Harlem Renaissance and the Art of Defiance
For the longest time, a very dim silhouette represented Black Americans, sketched by the fingers of oppression and shaded with...
Grace Kennedy
Sep 712 min read


Lost Voices: The Perpetual Struggle for Female Narrative Agency in Frankenstein and Mrs.Dalloway
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” Virginia Woolf once wrote, reflecting on the systematic erasure of women’s voices...
Noor Arif
Aug 319 min read


The Shattering of the Kaleidoscope: the Simultaneous Power and Danger of Illusion in TheGreat Gatsby and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Cause I’m in love with my future, can’t wait to meet her –Billie Eilish, “My Future” From hip Gen Z music artists like Billie Eilish to...
Lily Plum Gartenlaub
Aug 319 min read


Behind the Paint and Letters: Uncovering the Parallels between Virginia Woolf and Pablo Picasso
The fun of Cubism is that many people can look at the same painting done by Pablo Picasso, and everyone can see something completely...
Grace Kennedy
Aug 245 min read
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