“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed…We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness” (The Bluest Eye)...

Justice is living with the city inside yourself. In ancient Athens, the city was the community, and the community was the self. To act in...

Dualities often give rise to conflict. Hot or cold, peace or war, black or white… it is natural for one to dominate the other; it is...

The story of America is one of bondage. In a country that championed freedom and liberty, they harbored one dark regret: slavery. In the...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as described by Christa Knellwolf in her “Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific...

Shakespeare’s King Lear is a cautionary tale, serving to warn readers what happens when those in power become corrupted. Families of the...

Cronus was the son of Uranus and Gaia, and the youngest of the twelve titans. He was advised by his mother to castrate his father, and he...

The darkest evil may well be human. Heroes like Macbeth and Jay Gatsby have become fixtures in our minds like the constellations at...

The Color Line as W.E.B Du Bois defined it struck a distinct duality between black and white, dominance and subservience, north and...

While they find each other for fleeting moments in Paul Harding’s Tinkers, Howard and George are forever disconnected, reaching for...

Slavery is a deconstruction of the human experience. Told through the lives of former slaves, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is an analysis of...

A broken man with a big dream, The careless who discard unwanteds with a flick of their hands, Three dead bodies. A narrator watches from...

Wildly unpredictable and effervescent, Mercutio is more than the crude, quick-witted man he is made out to be in William Shakespeare’s...