Morgan CornettJun 15, 20192 minHarry Potter and The Prophet's HairWithin Salman Rushdie’s The Prophet’s Hair we see Hashim fall under the influence of a hair of the Prophet Muhammad that had been stolen....
Morgan CornettJun 12, 20192 minPunishment: Then and NowAlthough it was eventually disproved with advancements in technology, the woman’s body Seamus Heaney writes of in Punishment, suffered a...
Morgan CornettJun 7, 20192 min"The horror!"Upon my first reading of Heart of Darkness a few semesters ago for a literature class, I was shocked at some of the graphic things Conrad...
Morgan CornettJun 2, 20192 minSeeing into the FutureIt is no surprise that W. B. Yeats wrote something as dramatic as The Second Coming given his theatrical history. The visuals that he...
Morgan CornettJun 2, 20191 min"The Other Boat", The Other LifeIt is said that Forster began writing The Other Boat in 1913 but did not complete it until 1957 0r 1958. Thinking historically around...
Morgan CornettMay 24, 20192 minHiding OurselvesThis somewhat fascination in living a double life for both Stevenson and Wilde interests me greatly. I wonder if it was a common topic in...
Morgan CornettMay 22, 20192 minTaking Risks We begin to see now in the Victorian Era a pushback of Christian beliefs in literature. I was reminded by a classmate this past week to...
Morgan CornettMay 17, 20191 minA Victorian Horror StoryThe Old Nurse’s Story is not what I expected it to be. It is filled with all those horror story tropes that you still see in literature...