Monthly Archives: July 2010

What is the Pathetic Fallacy?

The pathetic fallacy illustrated with an example culled from Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. Continue reading

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Jane Austen and the USA’s Constitution

Jane Austen’s novel Emma depicts the British social system of hierarchies and inequalities, where titles of nobility and the landed gentry are the regents of the majority of the population. The founding fathers didn’t want such a detestable caste system and so wrote it into our Constitution. Continue reading

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A Bed is a Bed, is a Bed, is a Bed, is a Bed: Socrates’ Categories are Incomplete

Plato, Socrates, and Roland Barthes account for humans apprehend the world. Continue reading

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