Category: Literature
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A Clockwork Orange Summary
The narrative starts in the grotesque futuristic society governed by a totalitarian regime. Citizens are perfectly obedient and perfectly neglective, willingly oblivious to everything that happens with anyone else except themselves. This neglection gives birth to the ultra-violent movement of teenagers, young criminals lacking anything even vaguely resembling morals. They enjoy beating people to death,…
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The Taming of the Shrew Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Taming of the Shrew& Shakespeare Analysis Paper The 16th century play, Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and the modern movie 10 Things I hate about you are correspondent to each other in many ways. They have very similar characters names and their behaviors, similar plots, and themes. The characters are very similar to…
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The Maze Runner Essays
Poetry Connection with the Maze Runner Connections between The Maze Runner and Lost Memories Both my book, The Maze Runner, and the poem, Lost Memories, have something to do with lost memories. The main character Thomas awoke in a lift. He does not remember anything. The poems said “My mind went blank. ” This is…
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Muley Graves
Muley is a crazy old guy. In the book, he is a big friend of the Joad family. These two families had the same desire – to leave. Once he lost his house, land, and everything he liked. After that lost his wife and their children decided to run away and begin living from the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…