The Most Beautified Ophelia: The Duality of Femininity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Through the use of ambiguity in the plot of Hamlet, Shakespeare brings the audience into the action of the play, allowing its meaning and importance to shift with each varied perception. For…

The Real Lydia Bennet

Redeeming the forgotten Bennet sister

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is well-known for its revolutionary main character, Elizabeth Bennet, who is seen as an early example of a feminist character in literature. Austen presents Elizabeth…

The Epic Immortality of Cult: Divine Relationships in Homer’s Odyssey

Reclaiming the Horizon

A feminist reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is an inherently feminist novel that focuses on the hardships suffered by African American…