Notre Dame: A Picture Walk from 2017
~ By Sarah Levesque When I got the news that Notre Dame was burning, I was at work. All my coworkers and I were aghast that such a treasure was burning. Thankfully, we soon got…
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One Small Star: A Les Miserables Poem
~ by Avellina Balestri One small star, like the flame of a candlestick One small star which my blot out the rest One small star that may heal all enmity One small star that may…
An Emperor’s Grudge
~ By Adeel Ahmed Author's note: The following is based on a true story about Thomas Dumas, the son of a black slave woman and a French noble father, thus making him of mixed racial…
Beauties, Beasts, and Phantoms: A Brief History of Beauty & The Beast
The perennially beloved tale of Beauty and the Beast has been told in dozens of different ways throughout the years. From its origins in far off days as a myth of a god and a…
A Tale of Two Men: A Character Comparison between Sydney Carton and Dermot
One couldn’t think of two books more dissimilar than a work of French Gothic fiction such as Charles Dickins’s A Tale of Two Cities and Agatha Christie’s psychological, semi-autobiographical love story that ends badly, Unfinished…
House Cat: A Phantom of the Opera Story
Not everyone at the Opera House knew it was haunted. Perhaps the House cat had no idea beyond looking for the next rat. Cats are wise, after all, and don’t believe in ghosts. But most…
Bells of Notre Dame
~ By Amanda Pizzolatto He waited for some time after the church was locked before emerging from his hiding place among the shadows. He took in the beauty that was Notre Dame. It had been…
Daughters of the Phantom: A Phantom of the Opera Story
Katherine woke in the familiar darkness, sleeping on a bundle of old theater curtains. She felt comfortable in the dark; ‘it was friendly,’ her father always told her. The only light came from dim candles…
Hellfire, Dark Fire: A Character Study of Frollo from Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
What does a character need in order to be a convincing villain? Is it his words? His actions? How he evolves over the course of the story? In Disney’s animated film The Hunchback of Notre…
Hidden Beauty
~by Donna L. Ferguson Dudley The ones unprized, unrealized, the ones who garner gasps, not sighs, outwardly ugly or deformed, oft' harbor hearts most true and warm. The hunchback, bullied and despised, 'hind…