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Snow & Death in “The Dead” by James Joyce

November 30, 2022

  Script: Snow and Death in “The Dead” by James Joyce “The Dead” by James Joyce follows the mundane journey of an Irish man named Gabriel. In “The Dead,” set in the early 1900s, Gabriel attends, with his wife Gretta, … Read more

Gender Norms of the 19th Century: “The Story of an Hour”

November 29, 2022

Video Essay Transcript: In the United States of America during the 1890s, women were fighting for their rights, and social norms for women were abnormally restricted compared to now. The ongoing women’s rights movement was pushing for equality in all … Read more

An Hour of Awakening

November 28, 2022

  The author, Kate Chopin, known as a pioneer of feminist literature in the United States, composed the short story “The Story of An Hour” on April 19, 1894, and published it on December 6, 1894, in Vogue magazine. The story … Read more

The Ominous Power of Guilt

November 28, 2022

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, he portrays a madman who is struggling with guilt. The madman tries to explain his sanity through his narrative of killing an old man. The madman describes how the old man … Read more

“All Summer in a Day”: A Warning

November 28, 2022

    One Drive link: Sequence 02_1.mp4 Transcript “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, published in 1954, is a science fiction short story about a dystopian society living on Venus, where the sun comes out once every seven … Read more