English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jasmine Vrooman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jevro/activity/ Activity feed for Jasmine Vrooman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 515cf4d09a75cdbc8b0a83eb9e517e45 Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Connextions: Reflecting on this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14234/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:25:17 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 7d60adc6608d77951e9fa8d283afc7f4 Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Physical Appearances in Great Expectations & Reuben Sachs in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14139/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:32:49 -0500 When 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 […]

]]> 0 4d4cb765e5900e4602ba502203f16a36 Jasmine Vrooman commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14112/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:41:10 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 b4266eed85542a4cb111f17f78ca775e Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Oscar Wilde's Suffering & Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14090/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:45:08 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 7de286189cbe1780258c88822ef3c397 Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Oscar Wilde's Trials in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14081/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:48:49 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 2df18cd1c28096fec958d91424807c6c Jasmine Vrooman commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14030/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:40:50 -0500 This 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.

]]> 0 126a8c817bf15a9801611866c5013bcf Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Expectation vs. Reality in Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14001/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:16:08 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 5e32ad6b20cdecdd4099489a448813d2 Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post Characters' Focus on Shortcomings in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heigts in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13837/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 02:55:16 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 0e4dcd60cd100df9b01d9863717da3fa Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post Tonal Difference between Darwin & Huxley in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13673/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 01:44:43 -0500 Between 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 […]

]]> 0 af0334501eeb76382b7a962c30aa2fae Jasmine Vrooman commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13635/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:49:49 -0500 Heathcliff’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 […]

]]> 0 d614b261528c89a45ca573a644a46c20 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13565/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:41:26 -0500 While 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 […]

]]> 0 02027f61bf45b3c2819943de0a1a8109 Jasmine Vrooman commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13400/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:19:33 -0500 How does the experience of the industrial revolution influence the expression of human nature (living standards, etc.)?

]]> 0 832e92478a8836e174c5f32fbe403c93 Jasmine Vrooman edited the blog post 9/9 Context Post in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13335/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:49:01 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 dd9dbb1ca929d51e6aacfe4af1d2cb89 Jasmine Vrooman commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13279/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:50:01 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 24f39a51b6ffb6f4f92977ca9af76acd Jasmine Vrooman wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13223/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:21:19 -0500 Despite 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 […]

]]> 0 9721075ea6f7c34ef8c05d49a6523066 Jasmine Vrooman replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/#post-1425 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:09:58 -0500 I don’t have a favorite yet!

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