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1) When Shakespeare or Aphra Behn allude to misogynist or racist attitudes, are they endorsing them? Why, or why not?

2) Satire plays heavily in the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Jonathan Swift. Choose two authors’ works and describe both a target of their satire as well as the target audience.

3) Learning and education are present as themes in all the works read thus far. What sort of value judgements are made by the authors? Is education presented as inherently valuable, or is it presented as an institution that often conceals as much truth as it may reveal?

1. Discuss how humans treat others with cruelty once they feel ownership over other humans.
2. Discuss the powerlessness of humans under superseding circumstances.
3. Regardless of how different ( or degrading and inhumane) a society may seem to an outsider, it is considered normal to those who live in it.

Suggested Topic:

Self-interest and temptation to use the power over those who are powerless.

Each text has the heroes more or less powerful and the ability to use the power sometimes makes people to do unfair and egoistic things.

Welcome to Blogs@Baruch!

This blog, titled “News That Stays News,”  will be our class laboratory this semester. Each week, all of you will be posting your insights into the week’s readings here, as well as connections you find between those readings and articles you find in the New York Times.

Your first post, under the category “Shrew, Act 1” will describe a connection between some aspect of the Induction or First Act of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and an article you find in the Times during our exercise in class.