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The Fantasy of Abject Universality: Marx, Edelman, Freud, Bataille, and The Walking Dead
Through examination of a few episodes of The Walking Dead, and through a close-reading of the implications of the show’s fantastical elements, this horrifying doomsday scenario proves to be a projection of the individual’s unconscious desires and fears surrounding universalism in its various...
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Consuming “Products” of the Aristocracy: Early Modern Fiction and the “Teen Film”
By looking at the film Cruel Intentions, and taking into account Clueless, and La Belle Personne, I propose that the love-hate relationship for the aristocracy exhibited by early modern European novels is apparent in teen films of the new millennium, and has continued to evolve.
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Elizabeth Bennet Is the Novel: Embracing the Novel Genre Through the Protagonist
A protagonist that adopts the defining characteristics of the novel has the ability to promote the novel genre and inscribe its ideas on the minds of its readers; as the reader connects with the protagonist, he/she is also learning to embrace the novel as a genre.
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Validating the Viewer Auteur in 'Mystery Science Theater 3000'
There are “auteur” theories in which directors, actors, cinematographers, and film studios have been granted authorial status over a cinematic text due to stylistic similarities in a body of work. Here I propose that a viewer can also become an auteur.
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Lose Me in the Ocean: A Poem
A poem that serves as a metaphor for my journey through Christianity so far. I often use secular poetry to express my spiritual journey, though they are all about Jesus either directly or indirectly.
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A Checklist of Essentials for a Newborn Baby
Stores and websites often have huge comprehensive lists to help you build your baby registry, but what do you actually need for your baby's arrival?
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Emotion, Art, and the Self in 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'
An analysis of Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' that examines the value of emotion in the text.
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On Your Green: A Poem
A poem written while observing bees pollinating flowers, and use them as a metaphor for the joy found in taming passion.
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Human Mitosis in 'Frankenstein' and 'The Double:' Reanalyzing the Doubled Protagonist in Fantastic Myth
An analysis of the role of the "double" in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 'The Double.'
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Becoming Helen: The Journey to Compassion in 'Jane Eyre'
An analysis of the relationship between Jane and her childhood friend, Helen Burns, in Charlotte Brontë's novel 'Jane Eyre.'
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Exploring Expressionistic Inexpressibility in William Faulkner and Edvard Munch
An analysis and examination of the similar manifestations of Expressionism in Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' and Munch's 'The Dead Mother and the Child.'
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Renfield: A Poem
This is a poem inspired by the character Renfield from the novel "Dracula."
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8 Simple Ways to Raise Your Self-Esteem That You Can Start Today
Raising your self-esteem doesn't happen overnight, but with daily practice, time, patience and love, you can raise your self-esteem to a healthy level. As someone who has personally battled with low self-esteem these are a few methods that have worked for me and for others.
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Baby in Your Face: A Poem
A poem about saving a person, and restoring him to the person he was meant to be.
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Two Poems: "Flutters" and "Ways to Make a Moth"
"Flutters" and "Ways to Make a Moth" are poems I wrote shortly before becoming a Christian, and demonstrate the darkness I was living in before finding the light of Christ.
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Again: A Poem
A poem about becoming a baby that serves as a metaphor for my conversion from Atheism/Agnosticism to Christianity.