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Cause we all want to know why they are all naked.
Ok so first off I will say I know this isn’t my week to blog but since I am stuck doing one about Hobbes so Imma do this one too. If I didn’t make it clear during the lecture I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
My views on the recent sexual assaults
Now, this has nothing to do with Arts One. At all. But since Christina mentioned we should use this blog for other things, I thought it would be a good place to vent out my feelings. It is not all … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Everyone’s disappearing… Take me too, maybe? –– The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Between trying to study for my mid-terms and trying to finish reading The Master and Margarita I have to admit I’ve become very confused; everything is just mixing together in this one big container labelled “brain”. And while this mixing is … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Bulgakov’s Warning
Must we look at Bulgakov’s book The Master and Margarita as a critique of Soviet society? There’s no doubt that it can be viewed this way, but what characterizes truly great works of literature (as opposed to, say, Harry Potter or the Hunger Games) is that the reader can approach the same text yet draw different conclusions. So what […] Continue reading →
The Master and Margarita and Other Nonsensical Thoughts
Okay, bare with me because I’m very sleepy right now and I’m trying here, okay? And we all know that if I can’t get all my thoughts in one post I’ll make another post like I usually do hahahaha So today in Lecture, Miranda Burgess asked a question which really got my mind running, and […] Continue reading →
The Master and Margarita
I have to say that I really enjoyed this novel that we read. It was actually pretty nice to finally read something that was not a play, or like, the bible. It was easier to read as well, because the … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Some masters
I gotta say, I really dig this novel due to its imagery of all else. It was definitely reminiscent of Kafka, and Im glad that such a point was mentioned during the lecture. The dark imagery that is very violent … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Why is Faustus such an unsympathetic character?
I am somewhat persuaded by the reading of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus that suggests Marlowe is providing an anti-Calvinist play rather than a morality play (but please don’t take that to mean I don’t want you all to argue otherwise in your essays if you wish!). In short, the play can be read as criticizing […] Continue reading →
Why is Faustus such an unsympathetic character?
I am somewhat persuaded by the reading of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus that suggests Marlowe is providing an anti-Calvinist play rather than a morality play (but please don’t take that to mean I don’t want you all to argue otherwise in your essays if you wish!). In short, the play can be read as criticizing […] Continue reading →
