It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. No words better express the rollercoaster-ride of a year my first year of college has been. Some of the greatest adventures and some of the greatest tragedies have resulted from my time at BU. I’ll attempt to recall some of the major events [...]
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Love Death: Female Independence in Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”
The relationship between love and death has been constantly played with throughout literary history. Tales ranging from Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet to modern short stories such as Gabriel García Marquez “Death Constant Beyond Love” each provide their own interpretation on love and deaths courtship. Fairy tales, often replete with their own statements on [...]
Independence in Fairy Tales Examined Through Gender Roles
Female independence is and has been a driving force between many political issues for hundreds of years. Today, while many Middle-Eastern countries fight for women’s rights to education and free speech, we in America enjoy the comparatively greater equality that men and women share since the woman’s suffrage movement. During an interview in 1905, prominent [...]
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