The vignette that resonated most with me was “my name”, as it talks about how a young latin girl didn’t like her name when she was younger. Growing up as a Nigerian in the United States I was made conscious that my name was different from other people’s at a […]
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I read “My last Dutchess” and at first I did find it hard to “complete” the poem but after going over it in class I was able to understand it better, The poem is about a manipulative Duke that killed his wife because he wasn’t able to control her and […]
From reading Oedipus the king the clearest timeless human experience I can find is the fear of incest. Jacosta says much the same in the play when, trying to soothe Oedipus, she tells him that many a man has dreamed of killing his father and marrying his mother. As such […]
The chorus between line 181 and line 188 generally sings about asking for help from a higher being or “god”, it asks for guidance from higher powers, it at a point asks for forgiveness and for the power to deem justice onto him as it may please (in line 187) […]
