At the beginning of this semester, I felt as if this was one of the classes that would go on forever and I wouldn't like too much. This class actually proved to be quite helpful in furthering my education and my knowledge about world literature. It was interesting to learn the way different societies and even different religions function in various cultures.

After reading the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh, we found many similarities between their descriptions of evil. In both stories, a serpent represented evil and took away everlasting life for mankind. I thought it was interesting that two separate pieces of literature from separate parts of the world could have such similarities as this.

After that, we studied Chinese literature. We learned all about the religions of Dao, Confucius and Buddhism. We read selections from important pieces of literature. We read parts of the Tao Te Ching, "The Analects" by Confucius, and "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" by T'ao Ch'ien. I liked learning about  the different religions, but analyzing the literature wasn't as fun for me.

We then studied Ancient Persian literature, Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Roman Literature, Ancient Italian literature and then of course, some Hamlet. I enjoyed reading The Inferno and I really liked the video adaptation of Hamlet.

That is all. Thanks for everything.

Signing off.