Category: Literature

  • Don Quixote Essays

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    The Dangers of Reading Poetry in Cervantes’ Don Quixote The Greek philosopher Plato regards poets and poetry as dangerous for the young. This is because they can stir emotions that young people are unable to control. Given their highly impressionable nature, the youth are indeed susceptible to brainwashing and misinformation. A poet that glorifies war……

  • You never really understand a person until To Kill a Mockingbird

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    You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. Quote Analysis By saying these words Atticus Finch tries to teach his young daughter, Scout, a well-known approach how to better understand people’s inner motives and get along…

  • Sue Bridehead

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    Sue is a very independent, strong and sympathetic character. Also she is  Jude’s intelligent cousin. She has changed several jobs. She works first as an artist-designer and later as a teacher. Sue is a modern woman and a free-thinker. She rebels in her marriage and carries out a scandalous affair with Jude. She has a…

  • Philip “Pip” Pirrip

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    Pip was a dull boy before going away to college in another bigger city. When he comes back, we see him in designer shoes and costume, in other words – showing off. He starts shaming his pure parents because of a simple reason – they don’t know the difference between vermicelloni and bucatini (different kinds…

  • The fault, dear Brutus, is not in Julius Caesar

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    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. [Act 1 Sc. 2] Quote Analysis We see this quote in the play “Julius Caesar” written by William Shakespeare in the dialog between Brutus and Cassius who plan the assassination of Caesar (Act I, Scene II). Brutus is unsure…

  • The Old Man and the Sea Summary

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    The old man named Santiago is fishing on his boat in the Gulf Stream. For eighty-four days he goes to the sea and returns without catching a single fish. During the first forty days there is a boy with him – Manolin, his apprentice, but after so many unlucky days the parents of the boy…

  • Marius Pontmercy

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    The son of Georges Potmercy and Monsieur Gillenormand’s daughter. Marius is a lawyer and an intelligent young man who falls in love with Cosette. He grows up at Monsieur Gillenormand’s place not knowing anything about his real father because Gillenormand forbade their communication and did not allow them even to see each other. Eventually, Marius…

  • Beatrice

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    Beatrice is the eternal figure of the unattainable platonic love of man in life and in death. It is she who, descending from paradise, asks Virgilio to become the conductor of the poet in the afterlife. She then shows him Paradise. Dante loved Beatrice nine-year-old boy. She very early passed away and turned into an…

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles Essays

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    The Hound of The Baskervilles In the famous story “The Hound of The Baskervilles”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the main character is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is brought upon solving the mysterious death that has occurred in the Baskerville’s residency. Holmes uses specific reasoning in solving the great mystery of the… 711 words The…

  • The Color Purple Study Guide

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    The Color Purple Study Guide Author: Alice Walker Original title: The Color Purple Published: Published April 1st 2004 by Pocket (first published 1982) Setting: Georgia(United States) ISBN 0671727796 (ISBN13: 9780671727796) “The Color Purple” is a story about the social position of African-American women, written by Alice Walker in 1982. The book talks about pretty sad…