Browsing by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Capstone in English"
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Aldo Leopold’s Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in “Marshland Elegy” and A Sand County Almanac
(2017)This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ... -
Bitches Ain't Shit But Hoes and Tricks: An Examination of Gender in M.K. Asante's Buck
(2016)Throughout this essay, I will be examining how misogynistic language throughout Asante’s adolescence, specifically in rap music and inner city street culture, establishes a tense and destructive stage for gender relations ... -
"Mere Madness": A Study of the Portrayal of Women's Mental Health in Shakespeare's Plays
(2016)In this paper, I study the suicides of Ophelia from Hamlet and Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, and point out how their words and actions correlate with what was called madness at the time, but what we understand as depression ...