online class

I truly enjoyed the experience of participating in the online class. I became more confident blogging, posting and even creating a web site. I appreciated the posts of my classmates regarding our reading assignments, they were very insightful. The only thing that was confusing was the three sites where we could find information for class. I only used one. I enjoyed all the reading assignments, although some were difficult to interpret and analyze. However, the most difficult ones were the ones that I pondered the most. Great class!

Shell Shock

The character of Septimus in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway suffers from Shell Shock (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The details of his illness are vivid and true to today's time because of the Iraq war. The doctors in the novel either don't believe Septimus is ill or want to take advantage of his condition to try to experiment on him. I believe that nowadays there is more knowledge about PTSD in the medical community, however, there is still also a large amount of ignorance with the general public.