by Alexis Jennings | May 18, 2024 | Literature
The poem is divided into three stanzas and a total of twenty-five lines. Each stanza has these lively words giving me clear images of Africa in my head, just like watching a movie. Maya Angelou expressed her admiration and respect for her motherland through the poem,...
by Alexis Jennings | May 18, 2024 | Literature
Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles and is essentially a continuation of Oedipus The King, focusing on his four children long after his and Jocasta’s deaths. As a brief recap, Oedipus was the former king of Thebes who unknowingly fulfilled a prophecy made...
by Alexis Jennings | May 18, 2024 | Literature
In his book, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, Paul Kingsnorth states,” With climate change changing, with the sixth mass extinction well underway, with the ocean swimming in our industrial refuse, with our chemical backwash in our breast milk and...
by Alexis Jennings | May 18, 2024 | Literature
The book Anthem takes place in a society that could be best described as a dystopia. No individuals have any form of free will. They cannot select their careers, instead, those are picked by the government. They also have no right to ask questions concerning their...
by Alexis Jennings | May 18, 2024 | Literature
But the question is not how accurately tragedies reflect the behavior of real women but how truly they express society’s anxieties about relationships between men and women. In Medea, the eponymous heroine slaughters her children to take revenge on her husband (the...
