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  • Harper Lee

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    About Author Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in a small town of Monroeville in the southwestern of the state of Alabama. She was the youngest daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. The family had three other children. Her father used to own a newspaper and worked as an…

  • Aunt Drusilla

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    We doesn’t know a lot of useful, or at least any other information about this character. She doesn’t have a big role or impact. But still, she is Jude’s elderly great-aunt, who works as a baker in Marygreen. She is a fiercely devout evangelical who raises him indifferently after Jude’s father dies. So, we can…

  • Offred

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    The narrator is a female character who actually doesn’t have a name at all. She is once called as Offred, but she immediately discards that name, saying that she has another one which is forbidden to tell everyone. One of the reasons why she is left nameless is that she represents each woman who experiences…

  • Cicero

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero, born in 106 BC in Arpinum near Rome, was a great Roman philosopher, politician, orator, and lawyer. Being the son of a well-to-do landowner, he was the first to achieve the Roman office and become the consul among the whole family. His father’s library was the place where he began studying the…

  • Quotes – Page 215 | Just Great DataBase

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    Men demand much more than you think,” she would tell her enigmatically. “There’s a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think. Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 9 I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 90 | Just Great DataBase

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    Cuando las personas se empeñan en una forma de conducta que saben equivocada, se sienten agraviadas cuando se espera algo mejor de ellas. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 0 Elizabeth,…

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Summary

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a tragicomedy play about two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are courtiers and childhood friends of Hamlet’s. In this absurdist play, they are confused by what is going on, given that they only experience snippets of stage time on Hamlet and they don’t have much to…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 10 | Just Great DataBase

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    Last week they shot a woman, right about here. She was a Martha. She was fumbling in her robe, for her pass, and they thought she was hunting for a bomb. They thought she was a man in disguise. There have been such incidents. Rita and Cora knew the woman. I heard them talking about…

  • 1000 – 2000 essays – Page 5 | Just Great DataBase

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    Quotes with Page Number Herzog by Saul Bellow “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.” — — “Live or die, but don’t poison everything.” — Page 150 — “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.” — — “With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over…

  • Captain John Yossarian

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    He is the protagonist of the novel. At first, he appears as a bored joker, who censors the letters of soldiers and signs as Washington Irving, or as Irving Washington sometimes. Then we learn that he starts to be afraid of the flights and tries to get an exemption from combat sorties by all possible…