Author Archives: William Contreras

“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson During this course there were many literaryContinue reading “Teaching Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

During the Victorian era, there was scientific advancement, economic growth, and social anxieties that led to literary movements specifically referring to realist fiction novels. The realist novellas depicted everyday life events, moral attitude, and interior struggles of a Victorian character/ author’s point of view in the Victorian period. In the Broadview Anthology of British LiteratureContinue reading “The Strange Case of Victorian Realism”

The satire, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, who complexified the dynamics of Catherine Morland’s relationships through her daily life. It’s reasonable that with all her interactions with characters there’s one character that stirs the pot. Catherine is read as a sheltered person and didn’t know much about the world nor experience the social world. Then,Continue reading “Northanger Abbey’s Villain”