Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

The Scarlet Pimpernel: Satisfaction in Heroic Escapades

Disclaimer: While not graphic, the article discusses an unrated movie. Younger readers, please read at your parents’ discretion.   A romanticized hero. Insurmountable odds. A triumphal, fairytale-like ending snatched rewardingly from the jaws of defeat. Somehow, these common narratorial antics, though recycled and appearing in innumerable works, still satisfy the viewer […]

Arts & Culture

Changing the World One Letter at a Time

By the fading light of a candle, an African-American slave girl furiously composes poems that will change her world; a youthful girl on a plantation buries herself in her Father’s books while composing her own epic. A young girl, though mute, reads the famous writing of her time and begins […]