After the seminar today and the introduction I feel like I am really excited to continue to learn more about the victorian era. There was a sentence today in the zoom call that stood out to me as interesting and it was along the lines of " everything is centred around the victorian era" and while I look back at the course load ive taken to earn my degree I find that it is very true. Many of the texts that i've read center around the victorian era and many of the similar themes can be seen in more modern texts. I look forward to see how these themes intertwine with illistrative texts as it is a field I do not have much experience in. I always found the saying "a picture holds a thousand words" was a bit far fetched because as an english student and a book enthusiast I found words to be much more informative and now I look forwards to the many interpretations that we can find when we put together both texts and illustratives.While I have never taken a course on illistrations I hope this class helps me strengthen the ability to analyize and look for different themes and symbols in the texts. While exploring COVE I feel like there is a whole genre of texts that i havent explored so I look forwards to seeing the ways in which the texts were formulated and how the illustrations impact the story and the theme of the texts all throughout the victorian era.