Category: 2021

By Yuge Ma Dionysos, the god who induces one to forget one’s self, drives the central action in Euripides’s Bakkhai. Bakkhai is a play about a divinity’s revenge on mortal human beings. The play begins with Dionysos arriving at Thebes, his birthplace, in the disguise of a mortal foreigner, to take his revenge on the Theban … Continue reading Seeing Sight: The Anti-Ocularcentric bakkhai →

by Cristina Coppa According to Ferdinand de Saussure’s vision on semiotics—“the science of  communication studied through the interpretation of signs and symbols as they operate in various fields” —in his Course in General Linguistics, language is a system of signs that express ideas (Saussure 850). The elements of language, as part of this semiotic system, … Continue reading The Arbitrariness of “20/20” Vision →

by Tiana Urey In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Gertrude and Ophelia function as political and social stabilizers to the male characters, and their treatment speaks to the kingdom’s declining health. Their shared literary role demonstrates not that these women are passive, but that female maltreatment is a barometer of instability as the men sink deeper into political … Continue reading The Sacrificial Female →