Category: Literature

  • Vanity Fair Summary

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    The story starts from the graduation of the two classmates – the polar opposites of each other. One girl is named Becky Sharp and she is from the dysfunctional family of a former art teacher who abuses alcohol. Amelia Sedley is the descendant of the middle-to-upper class family of a property investor. They have absolutely…

  • The Time Machine Summary

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    The characters of the story are mostly not named (at least the ones who live in the present). The Psychologist, the Young Man, the Mayor, the Doctor and, of course, our narrator are invited to dinner to the Time Traveller’s home. The Time Traveller tries to persuade them that time travel is actually possible because…

  • Juno

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    Juno is the ancient Roman goddess of marriage and birth, family and family ordinances, motherhood, women, and female productive power. A daughter of Saturn and Opa. A sister of Pluto, Neptune, Ceres and Vesta. A sister and the spouse of Jupiter. The mother of Mars and Vulcan. In ancient Greek mythology, she is the equivalent…

  • Antigone Essays

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    The Theme of Fatalism in Antigone Tragedies involve a regular person experiencing a reversal in fortune because he or she results in a catharsis arousing fear and pity of the audience. In Greek tragedies, fatalism plays a dominant role in doing so as one is not a free agent because future(in tragedies, reversal of fortune)…

  • Hassan

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    He is Amir’s playmate and servant; As well as Amir he is a Hazara and Shi’a Muslim; his father is Ali. Hassan is the most loyal and devoted servant Amir had ever had. He was born with a cleft lip. He and Amir were nursed by the same woman, and without knowing it, they became…

  • The Brothers Karamazov Summary

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    The novel The Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a story of three Karamazov brothers where their distinct and different personalities lead them to life events in an unjust and unkind world which entangles each other’s fates. The father of the three Karamazov brothers has a greater role to play other than being a…

  • A Farewell to Arms Essays

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    Ironic Narrative in A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway Introduction Within the pages of A Farewell to Arms, modernist work of the 1920s, Hemingway often blurs the lines between the romantic narrative pattern and the ironic one. Critics argue over the specifics of each case: Do his heroes change and grow? Do they stagnate?…

  • The Alchemist Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. The Alchemist 36 We have to be prepared for change. The Alchemist 35 We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have…

  • Robert Jordan

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    The main character of the story, a young American, and a well-trained dynamiter. He is a well-built man with blonde hair. Robert Jordan’s main duty is to blow up the bridge during the attack on Segovia. Hence, he enters the band of the gypsy soldiers who fought for freedom in the hills of Sierra de…

  • I was benevolent and good; misery made Frankenstein

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    I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. Quote Analysis In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist, assiduously accomplishes his animation project i.e. bestowing life to a human skeleton, the bones of which were collected from charnel…