Category: Literature

  • George Shelby

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    The master and mistress’ son. He is a good example of the proverb – Children doesn’t understand what is it being racists. Even at the beginning of the novel, when he is thirteen years old, he teaches Tom how to read! And that is incredible. Later, he tries to find Tom when he is sold.…

  • Bleak House Study Guide

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    Bleak House Study Guide Author: Charles Dickens Original title: Bleak House “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens isn’t the most famous of his novels, but it is a brilliant satire on the English judicial system. The main plot drive is the two contradictory wills and the following Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case. The tangled family story…

  • East of Eden Essays

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    Villans in East of Eden Villains are what make the stories interesting; they are people who are displaying the worst of human characteristics. In East of Eden, that callous and malicious individual is Cathy. Cathy is devoid of human empathy and shows this many times throughout the novel. Cathy has committed many heinous… 272 words…

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary

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    Set in the ancient city of Uruk in Sumer, also known as Mesopotamia, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the legend of the priest-king of this ancient city-state. Gilgamesh, the ruler of Uruk was not the perfect, ideal king usually seen in myths and legends; he was bedecked by many ills. Uruk’s architecture was impeccable, and…

  • The Misanthrope Study Guide

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    The Misanthrope Study Guide Author: Molière Original title: Le Misanthrope ou L’Atrabilaire Amoureux The Misanthrope is a comedy of manners by Moliere that, as do his previous works, mocks the habits of the upper-class French society, so bright and magnificent at the first glance and so shallow inside. Because his previous works were already banned…

  • Adam Bede Study Guide

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    Adam Bede Study Guide Author: George Eliot Original title: Adam Bede “Adam Bede” is a novel about rural life and the complicated and tangled relationships between the young people of the imaginary community of Hayslope. With the incredible brilliance the pastoral and heartwarming depiction of the life of countryside is connected with the harsh reality…

  • A Clockwork Orange Study Guide

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    A Clockwork Orange Study Guide Author: Anthony Burgess Original title: A Clockwork Orange Characters: Pete, Alex, Dim, Georgie, Minister of the Interior, F. Alexander, Dr. Brodsky and Dr. Branom, P.R. Deltoid Anthony Burgess published “A Clockwork Orange” in 1962 and his work was later adapted into a legendary Stanley Kubrick movie. The movie was actually…

  • My Ántonia Essays

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    My Antonia by Willa Cather Based on the novel, Jim Burden’s observation of Antonia and even the way he looks at her and interacts with her, it seems clear that he loved Antonia. He did not pursue her, however. Jim spent his childhood in his grandfather’s house in the prairie and spent a lot of…

  • Lord Jim Summary

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    The story starts from the meeting with our protagonist, Jim, the cherished son of an English parson. Brave and ambitious, the young man goes to the sea to earn fame and fortune for himself. We still don’t know why he is referred as “Tuan Jim” or “Lord Jim” – it is a mystery to be…

  • The Three Musketeers Essays

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    Chivalry Among Men in The Novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The element of chivalry overshadows everything else in Alexandre Dumas’s historical romance, The Three Musketeers. The work was set against the background of King Louis VIII’s France. It was a time of intrigue, treachery and machinations in high places, an atmosphere in which…