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may 2025

essays

Spinning Out: An Analysis of Automobility and Existentialism in Film Noir

i wrote this for a noir class, it examines the role of cars in noir narratives as arbiters of violence and how this trope stems from high levels of automobile violence and automotive isolation in 1940s LA

Wanton Poets, Pleasant Wits: The Defense of Queerness in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II

this essay was written for a class on revenge narratives and posits that the queer relationship between edward and gaveston in edward II is legitimized by the act of revenge that happens at the end of the play