— Anonymous The following response will be based on “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett. The one-act play was very hard to understand after only reading a pdf. When I read the Endgame for the first time, I did not get many of the metaphors or symbolism in it. There were too many dialogues which had deep […]
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More complex than the naked eye showed
— Anonymous After reading “Good Country People” written by Flannery O’Connor, there were many things that I found to be interesting, appealing, and comparable to things we spoke about within the classroom. The protagonist of the story Hulga was an interesting character, who was more complex than the naked eye showed. She was a character […]
Sometimes I feel that I need an escape from the realities of life
— Anonymous After reading the “Bar Napkin Sonnet #11” written by Moira Egan, I felt a personal connection to her writing. Even though alcohol is thankfully not something I consume, sometimes I feel that I need an escape from the realities of life. Weather it would be a great book, or a funny Adam Sandler […]
I did not thoroughly understand, and therefore could not thoroughly enjoy
— Alexandra Shyklo One text that we’ve read “in class” that I feel as though I did not thoroughly understand, and therefore could not thoroughly enjoy, is “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett. I put “in class” in quotation marks because my class analyzed this text as a portion of our distance-learning curriculum, during the pandemic. It […]
One of the most engaging and erratic stories I’ve ever read
— Alexandra Shyklo “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov seems to be one of the most engaging and erratic stories I’ve ever read. Since I began my semester in Dr. Pasquesi’s Great Works course, I have learned to look at stories from a very intellectual and philosophical perspective. We’ve been taught to find […]
