Day: December 4, 2024

Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity and Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,” 1st Place.

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Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity, & Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,”  1st Place. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter offers an intimate glimpse at the personal and social implications of longstanding public punishment. Hester Prynne is indefinitely visibly marked as an adulteress through the scarlet letter A embroidered on her dress, but… Read more Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity and Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,” 1st Place.

Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Silko’s Ceremony,” 1st Place

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Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony ,” 1st Place Orientation depends on understanding your location and existence in relation to your surroundings. When you are severed and disconnected from your surroundings and cannot locate yourself among them, physically or mentally, you become disoriented. Leslie Marmon… Read more Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Silko’s Ceremony,” 1st Place

Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place

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Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place Early in her essay, “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf considers the qualities a writer must possess to write fiction involving characters who are ill, stating, “To look these things squarely in the face would need the courage of a lion… Read more Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place