Catholics Read The Great Divorce: Part II
The team discuss The Great Divorce by looking at the individual characters, and how they are afflicted with temptations to flee the love and mercy of God.
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Catholics Read The Great Divorce: Part I
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Great Divorce in the first of two parts, exploring Lewis’ presentation of Heaven, Hell and purgatory.
Catholics Read Leave it to Jeeves
Luke, Kiara and Victoria dive in to Leave it to Jeeves, exploring the sitcom-before-the-sitcom, and the difference of communication between men and women.
Catholics Read The Man From Snowy River
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Banjo Paterson’s The Man From Snowy River, discussing the Australian culture featured in the poem, and “the man” himself.
Catholics Read The Hobbit
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, exploring the glamour of evil and the richness of culture as found in Tolkien’s world.
Catholics Read A Modest Proposal
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore at Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, looking at the shortcomings of a purely economic approach to the human person, the purpose of satire, and whether large families are to blame for poverty in the developing world.
Catholics Read Heart of Darkness
Luke, Kiara and Victoria look at Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, discussing the pitfalls of (quasi) first-person narrative, racial discourse without and surrounding the text, and why you should almost never use the term “In Africa…”.
Catholics Read How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, explaining the ironic commercialisation of Christmas, the text’s fantastic qualities for children (and adults), and how anyone of any character can undergo a conversion.