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There are some thinkers who see the history of humanity as one great progression toward true freedom. But is mankind meant for liberty? What role does bondage or restraint play in shaping the human experience? In today's episode we turn to the great authors to see what they had to say about this issue. Yes, yes Dostoevsky comes up again. How could he not when we're talking about bondage? But we tried really, really hard to expand our authorial reach this week...
Referenced Works:
–Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
–The Wall by Peter Sis
–One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
–The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
–I am David/ North to Freedom by Anne Holm
–Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
–The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
–The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
–Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
–Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
–Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
We love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing [email protected], or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.
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There are some thinkers who see the history of humanity as one great progression toward true freedom. But is mankind meant for liberty? What role does bondage or restraint play in shaping the human experience? In today's episode we turn to the great authors to see what they had to say about this issue. Yes, yes Dostoevsky comes up again. How could he not when we're talking about bondage? But we tried really, really hard to expand our authorial reach this week...
Referenced Works:
–Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
–The Wall by Peter Sis
–One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
–The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
–I am David/ North to Freedom by Anne Holm
–Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
–The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
–The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
–Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
–Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
–Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
We love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing [email protected], or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.
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