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I think I would say that my favorite project to have done this semester was my first, a traditional essay called “Monstrosity in Literature and Film“. This project was my favorite because it was interesting to explore the different interpretations of monstrosity, both in the texts we had read for class and some examples from… Read more Final Post-My Favorite Project

Throughout the reading we have done for Margaret Cavendish’s “The Blazing World”, it struck me how much of the science that was talked about in the story seemed strange and fantastical. On the one hand, I know that this story was written in a different time, so there may be elements of science that were… Read more Reflection for “The Blazing World” Day 2

During the first day that we talked about Margaret Cavendish’s “The Blazing World”, we discussed what genre we thought it might fit into. At the time, I had believed that the work could best be categorized as science fiction. The fact that there are elements of fiction in this story is undeniable, as is evidenced… Read more Reflection of “The Blazing World” Day 1

Why does the empress keep asking the spirits the same question over and over again? “She asked again, Whether Spirits were not like Water or Fire? They answered, that Water and Fire was material, were it the purest and most refined that ever could be; nay, were it above the Heavens: But we are no… Read more Question for “The Blazing World” Day 2

From what I gather from the other world that the majority of the story takes place in, it is supposed to be a better world than the one that the empress originally lived in and the one we live in now. It is a world where everyone gets along despite their differences, where there is… Read more Question for “The Blazing World”

In class, particularly on the padlet, we discussed at length the reasoning behind Adam and Eve’s decisions to eat the fruit. In Aidan, Colton, Emily, Tess, and Lilian’s post, they talk about Satan convincing Eve to eat the fruit by telling her that if she had the knowledge of what was bad in the world,… Read more Reflection on Why Adam and Eve Ate the Fruit

In Wollstonecraft’s argument against Milton’s depiction of Eve in “Paradise Lost”, she says something along the lines of, the term innocent should be reserved for children and never used to describe adult men and women, as it then manifests as weakness. “Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men,… Read more Question for Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”