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Silence: A Poem
I am eternal I have existed and will exist I am the first and the last Ever present and powerless I am empty in voice I am the voice of the empty I am mute and cannot speak Yet great … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I hate Hobbes
That is all.
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The Master and Margarita
When I first bought all of the books, I looked at “The Master and Margarita” and immediately dreaded reading it. Being on the thick side, I thought that the book was going to be extremely hard to get through. I am glad to be proven wrong. Although I found the first chapter of the book […] Continue reading →
Bulgakov on Doctor Faustus
The Master and Margarita is definitely my favourite of the works that we have studied thus far in Arts One. Many consider it to be one of the greatest novels of Russian literature, if not one of the greatest pieces of … Continue reading → Continue reading →
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 →
