Horace Walpole once said, “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” Appropriately enough, I was introduced to this quotation while studying Shakespeare in high school…and it seemed very true at the time. I even wrote it down in the happy face notebook where I kept my [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Wind in the Door
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, horace walpole, madeleine l'engle, wind in the door on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Battle of the Elizabeths: Bennett v. Lemon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural theory, Disney, feminism, jane austen, movies, nancy drew, Narnia, sci fi, shakespeare, superheroes, tv on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just wrote an entire note about how modern culture fosters relatively no positive female role models…and then I accidentally deleted it all. I’m not going to rant it again but I’ll give you the short version:
Boys are taught to band together; girls see each other as competition for the sparse female spots within the [...]
