Category: Literature

Giles Corey is a strong old man who has recently converted to Christianity. He’s likeable but is not too bright. His biggest bumble in the play is when he brings up the fact that his wife reads strange books. To Giles, any book is strange, and the idea of a woman wanting to read blows his mind.…

In the declining years, the Benedictine monk Adso recalls events, an eyewitness, and participant of which he happened to be in 1327. When political and church discords shook Europe. In this confusion, Adso, then a young novice, accompanies the English Franciscan William of Baskerville in his travels through the cities and largest monasteries of Italy.…

This character is Meursault’s girlfriend. She works as a typist at Mersault’s office, exactly in that place they first met. She sees his changes, and that he even probably doesn’t love her, but nevertheless wants to marry him and have several nice kids. Meursault likes her for her beautiful shape of the body, her nice…

Ms. Costello is the main instrument Henry James uses for a high-level society in Europe. He has such a high social situation that from time to time he can not even weaken interaction with the world outside the hotel room and his nephew. He constantly judges the actions of other people and always considers them…

Bernard Shaw is an English playwright and an Irishman by descent. He is considered one of the founders of the “drama of ideas”, writer, essayist, one of the reformers of theatrical art of the XX century. He is the second one in popularity rating (after Shakespeare), the author of…

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Study Guide Author: Stieg Larsson Original title: Män som hatar kvinnor Characters: Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Henrik Vanger, Martin Vanger, Harriet Vanger Most of people tend to believe they have never experienced the contemporary literature of Nordic countries until they realize that Stieg Larsson, who wrote the legendary “The…

Friar Laurence is a monk; he is a minor character in Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, which occupies one of the key positions.  The monk is presented to readers by a wise and shrewd person who understands that only love can destroy the long-standing opposition. Laurence the philosopher, meditating on the dialectical essence of things,…

The full name of this character is Dolores Haze. It is the main female character in the novel, the antagonist of Humbert. We get to know about her from individual characteristics provided by the narrator. Lolita is the reflection of a nymphet, lost the love of Humbert – his Annabel. Lolita is a dynamic character,…