Author: admin
-
Blanche Ingram
Blanche Ingram is, let’s be honest, not a beautiful girl. The daughter of one of Rochester’s distant neighbors, Blanche gets interested in him because of his fortune and because she thinks an ugly husband would be easy to dominate. She’s a beautiful, selfish snob with a severe attitude problem. Her name, ‘Blanche,’ clues us in…
-
Quotes – Page 251 | Just Great DataBase
Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 6…
-
Phaedra Study Guide
Phaedra Study Guide Author: Jean-Baptiste Racine Original title: Phaedra Phaedra is a tragedy based on Greek mythology and dedicated to the only topic: the unrequited love. We see it in many forms: tender affection of star-crossed lovers, all-consuming forbidden passion and the calm love of a caring husband, who doesn’t know that he is not…
-
fewer than 1000 essays – Page 63 | Just Great DataBase
Herosim in “Candide” and “The Love Suicides at Amijima” What is heroism? Heroism is typically described with qualities such as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, or someone who has achieved some fantastic goal or status, or even someone who has accomplished a great task. Heroism consists of always striving to do what is right, rather than…
-
Oedipus the King Summary
The play is based on the myth about Oedipus, which was well-known to the ancient Greeks. But Sophocles reinterprets the myth in his own way. Understanding that the audience knows the ending well enough, he changes the accent from the final tragedy to the feelings of Oedipus himself, showing how he, acting as a noble…
-
Quotes – Page 406 | Just Great DataBase
Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious…
-
Alexis Karenin
Alexis is Anna’s husband who has noble blood. His surrounding consists of people from the high-ranking society. He is considered to be the most significant person in the city. That is why Karenin is under a watchful eye of the entire community. However, the author depicts him as a superficial man. He reads literature, but…
-
A Raisin in the Sun Study Guide
A Raisin in the Sun Study Guide Author: Lorraine Hansberry Original title: A Raisin in the Sun Characters: Walter Lee Younger, Beneatha Younger (“Bennie”), Lena Younger (“Mama”), Ruth Younger, Travis Younger, Joseph Asagai, George Murchison, Mr. Karl Lindner, Bobo, Willy Harris, Mrs. Johnson Published: May 7th 2002 by Random House (first published 1959) Setting: United…
-
Demian Summary
The story is narrated by Emil Sinclair, who states that he will talk about a certain event in his life that happened when he was ten years old. When he was a child, he was always wary of two realms existing at the same time, one of ‘light’ which consisted of everything good in the…
-
Dagny Taggart
One of the mysterious personages in the story. A commitment to extremes and maximalism characterizes the heroine’s temperament. Sometimes the choice made by her is quite hard to explain with rational arguments. She is guided by emotions and knows how to appear at a party or a dinner effectively. The protagonist is the vice-president of…