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Lauren Jackson Lara Croft is a video game that has long been sexualized; in fact I think it’s rather safe to say it’s a game that has been hyper-sexualized. Lara Croft, with her ideal hourglass figure, has often been ogled as the epitome of female sensuality. Not only can she fill out a dress nicely […]
Lauren Jackson In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado we are presented with a picture of horror that resonates in the mind with great clarity. One can hardly read this short story with any sense of calm due to the pervading intensity that climaxes upon itself; the inherent unrest the story emanates. There is […]
Lauren Jackson Dark groping and fearful probing, result in spitting blood and chilling screams that resonate in the night-shrouded graveyard. In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story Berenice, the floating image of his fiancée’s teeth is burned into the narrator’s mind and fills him with ideas. Ideas of female power and male superiority being waged war […]
Lauren Jackson Matthew Boswell’s article “’Black Phones’: Postmodern Poetics in the Holocaust Poetry of Sylvia Plath” delves deep into not only the text of Plath’s poetry, but the resonance it holds inside her readers. Her “readers” is not meant possessively due to the offensive nature such poetry has oftentimes been labeled, but rather her readers […]
Somehow my discovery was not as edifying as I had hoped it would be. I watched her features shift and morph, grotesque like a mangled puppet. Her laugh was false and hollow, as though her insides had been scooped out and only the flesh remained. I imagined her imprisoned in her own body, captive to […]
V for Vendetta is a film by James McTeigue, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore that highlights a dystopian ‘near-future’ society in England that reveals the corrupt practices of governments against their people. The disruptive nature of the terrorist ‘V’ in the film has been symbolic historically, presently, and assumptively, futuristically. The society […]
Our nation has a long history of expressing its inexpressible horrors through art and literature. It has become a long-accepted facet that post-war trauma has led many an author to pen the atrocities of violence and unspeakable horrors into something melodic and lyrical. As Tim Snelson puts it in The Ghost in the Machine: World […]
There was a little girl with a little golden head, She loved to play outside, and hated going to bed. She’d often leave her shoes, and run about quite free, She’d perch herself up high, and survey all she could see. She’d snuggle up to her mama, and listen to her speak, Of days now […]
What defines a female and a female’s role in society is explored in the novel The Female Man by Joanna Russ. The weight of the little book is heavy and pregnant with notions of what it means to be a woman in multiple points in history, and how they are all vaguely the same. With […]