Category: Literature

  • Vardaman Bundren

    The youngest of all children in Bundren family. He is described as having the same level of naivety as his sister Dewey Dell, but with a positive perspective. The way he views his mother’s death, comparing it to his lost fish, presents the kind of feeling the reader gets when he reads the book. It…

  • King Lear

    King Lear is surely a central hero of the play. Before us, the governor is avid for flattery and compliments. It is his passion for empty-headedness that causes the death of many worthy people. He rejects the honesty of younger daughter Cordelia, choosing fake instead of common sense. Lear cannot admit his own mistakes. It…

  • Karellen

    Being from the race of Overlords he is described as an intelligent, smart, and friendly guy. Unfortunately, Karellen knows what will happen to the human race, and has strange dual feelings about it. In this story he has some talks only with the Stormgren, and honestly, they are very sincere to each other and their…

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude Essays

    One Hundred Years of Solitude “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Gracia Marquez is an eye-opener for us to stand up on our beliefs and be free from our inner problems. Solitude implies the state of being alone, no one to turn to and detach to others. It is the absence of companionship, withdrawal…

  • Lucie Manette

    She is a blue-eyed and golden-haired young lady that has perfect fellowship with her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette. She is not only pretty and kind but also extremely wise beyond the years. Lucie attracts the attention of all the men that surround her. Although Lucie has a soft spot for Sydney Carton, a lawyer working…

  • A Modest Proposal Essays

    A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal is a satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, written in 1729. It is aimed at the rich landowners of Ireland who are keeping the poor of Ireland in poverty and virtual starvation. The narrator is Swift, who seems to be making a strong case for cannibalism as…

  • Frances Earnshaw

    Frances Earnshaw plays a secondary role in the novel. She is Hindley’s wife, Harter’s mother, who is soft and fragile. She died after the childbirth. She is a slender and painful girl, but the birth of her son undermined her poor health. In the summer of the next year, Frances gives birth to a son,…

  • Lord Jim Study Guide

    Lord Jim Study Guide Author: Joseph Conrad Original title: Lord Jim Lord Jim is a romantic adventure novel by Joseph Conrad that even shares some traits with Gothic novels. Despite the exotic setting and the extraordinary events that puts the story far into the territory of historical fiction, the themes raised in it are very…

  • The Aeneid Summary

    In the ancient age when the gods descended to Earth to sleep with mortal women, many heroes were born. But few of them were the offsprings of the goddesses and the mortal men. One of such heroes was Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, son of the ocean goddess Thetis, another one is the hero…

  • Ur-Shanabi

    Finally we get to the character who plays one of the most important roles in the story. He is the boatman who takes Gilgamesh over the waters of the dead to see Utnapishtim. Also, he is the guardian of the mysterious “stone things.” He is a very important and well-known personage in Mesopotamian mythology. But the…