How does the movie “Desk Set (1949)” highlight the negotiation of Hepburn’s identity (the independent, successful woman on one hand, who needs to “learn her place,” on the other hand) that we’ve been discussing over the last few weeks?
August 7, 2017Distinguish the humanities from other modes of human inquiry and expression.
August 7, 2017
- QUESTION: NATHANIEL HAWTHONE, HERMAN MELVILLE, EDGAR ALLAN POE ALL EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT AN UNLIMITED HUMAN POTENTIAL SEEING OUR NATURES AS INHERENTLY FLAWED, IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. USING “THE MINISTER’S BLACK VEIL” BY HAWTHORNE, “THE BIRTH MARK” BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, AND “THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE DISCUSS HOW THIS WRITERS PORTRAY HUMAN NATURE AS LIMITED IN ITS POTENTIAL.
