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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Connextions: Reflecting on this Semester in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoThe biggest takeaway I have from this semester is the connexions that I’ve made within the texts we’ve read but also across timelines. Dissecting stories like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in a way […]
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Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Physical Appearances in Great Expectations & Reuben Sachs in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoWhen reading Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy for this week, a description that jumped out at me within the first few pages was the physical description of Adelaide and her mother. “She was richly and very fashionably […]
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Jasmine Vrooman commented on the post, Morris, How We Live and How We Might Live, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months agoThis paragraph’s focus on the capitalism of war both raises existential questions about the purpose of war/misery and the role of economy in human suffering–two themes that can link back to other readings from […]
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Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Oscar Wilde’s Suffering & Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoIn reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, I noticed the highly emotive language that is used throughout to describe Wilde’s experiences. Words like “suffering”, “sorrow”, “grey”, and “forgotten” pop out to the […]
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Oscar Wilde’s Trials in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 10 months agoIn his article, “Re-Presenting Oscar Wilde: Wilde’s Trials, “Gross Indecency,” and Documentary Spectacle,” S. I. Salamensky gives insight on Oscar Wilde’s three trials that were, for the most part, prima […]
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Jasmine Vrooman commented on the post, Chapter 39, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 10 months agoThis paragraph conveys how Pip is able to see other people. He is able to perceive this man as violent and desperate–able to formulate how to feel (terror, dreadful burden) from what he’s seeing.
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Expectation vs. Reality in Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoThe namesake of the novel Great Expectations as well as a crux of the story is the idea of having certain beliefs of how the future will unfold and being faced with a disappointing outcome. In the book, Pip and […]
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Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Characters’ Focus on Shortcomings in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heigts in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months agoIn the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the main character Pip often focuses on his negative qualities and shortcomings more than his positive attributes and actions. This can be shown when he steals […]
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Tonal Difference between Darwin & Huxley in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 12 months agoBetween Darwin’s Origin of Species and Huxley’s “Agnosticism and Christianity”, I immediately noticed a difference in tone which contributes to the style of persuasion implemented in the essays. In Darwin’s, the […]
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Jasmine Vrooman commented on the post, Chapter 34, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoHeathcliff’s character throughout the text is a lens into trauma, obsession, and the relationship with the self. By the end of the book, this prompt to reflect on his role in the story is well earned as a […]
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post The influence of an unequal society on Catherine’s marriage & right to happiness in Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoWhile reading Wuthering Heights, I kept an eye out for connections between the treatment and actions of women in the book as those elements fall into the time period. In my own interpretation of this feminist […]
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Jasmine Vrooman commented on the post, The Cry of the Children, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoHow does the experience of the industrial revolution influence the expression of human nature (living standards, etc.)?
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Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post 9/9 Context Post in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years agoThis week’s readings were particularly striking for me as they discussed the role of women in the Victorian era. The “political non-existence of women” is a series of statements outlining the sexism and […]
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Jasmine Vrooman commented on the post, Mill, Autobiography, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years agoThis paragraph speaks to me due to the cantor that the narrator speaks with regarding his own emotions and how the process of writing has helped him synthesize his emotions as well as the role of analyzing the […]
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Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month agoDespite leafing through required readings for classes and admiring the banter between students with a thorough understanding of the “classics”, I have had minimal exposure to many famed pieces. For a student […]
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