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If I could choose one text from this semester and teach at any level I wanted I would choose to teach in a high school classroom and the text would be Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s, “Decolonizing the Mind”. I chose this text because I felt it was one of the most important we covered and mostContinue reading “Final Blog Post: Prompt 2”

Garrett Enea, ENGL 277 The narrative of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, while a supernatural and grisly tale is still bound by the tropes that classify Victorian Realism literature. This style of realism is most apparent in Mr.Utterson’s and Dr. Jekyll’s shared friend group, where Mr.Hyde lives in Soho, and the overall moralContinue reading “Victorian Realism: Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

While I admit that there is no blatantly obvious, conventional “villain” in Northanger Abbey, there is definitely an antagonistic force to Catherine in the form of John Thorpe. John Thorpe shares many traits of rakes in that era of literature; he’s self centered, under-handed, a manipulator, and sees the main character as a sexual conquestContinue reading “Northanger Abbey Blog Post Enea 277”

“Nutting” by William Wordsworth seems to reflect all his observations of successful poetry put forth in the “Preface to Lyrical Ballad”. For example, Wordsworth points out in the Preface that subjects in poems are something that should be significant and worth discussing on a moral and spiritual level as to keep the reader engaged. Nutting doesn’t seemContinue reading “Romanticism Blog Post Enea ENGL 277”