Ingrid Bengis, a writer best known for her collection of essays on love, hate, titled Combat in the Erogenous Zone, once said that “Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change” (Quotationspage). In her most controversial novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin was well aware of the power that words can exert over theContinue reading “Freedom Through Language in The Awakening”
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A Reputation of Deceit: How Moll Flanders Beat the Gossip Game (Part 2 of 2)
However, it wasn’t always clear to Moll Flanders how to build up a good and useful reputation such as this. When her second husband, a thief, flees the country, Moll finds herself entirely at loose ends for perhaps the first time in her life. She seems to instinctively know that if she stays where, andContinue reading “A Reputation of Deceit: How Moll Flanders Beat the Gossip Game (Part 2 of 2)”
Fairy Tales
On a cool night in midsummer, while the fireflies danced their ancient dances over the river and a pack of deer, emboldened by the protection of the full moon, grazed in the meadow, a baby was born in the thatched hut by the dell. The unlikelihood of this wondrous event was commented on widely byContinue reading “Fairy Tales”
A Reputation of Deceit: How Moll Flanders Beat the Gossip Game (Part 1 of 2)
Literary works of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries tend to depend, in one way or another, on reputation. In works such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela or Eliza Haywood‘s Fantomina, the issue of good and bad reputation informs the main conflict of the story. It is important to note, however, that the reputation atContinue reading “A Reputation of Deceit: How Moll Flanders Beat the Gossip Game (Part 1 of 2)”
Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Did you know that there is not one, but three different saints named Valentine who are officially recognized by the Catholic Church? They were all martyred for different reasons at different times; small wonder there’s so much confusion about what Valentine’s Day is really about. The most popular story involves the Saint Valentine (or Valentinus)Continue reading “Celebrating Valentine’s Day”