Category: Literature

  • Widow Douglas and Miss Watson

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    We don’t know a lot about this character, but while reading, we feel sympathy for her. She takes Huck to her house, or in other words, under her wing and promises to make him more civilized, which was not exactly what he wanted, but it was a nice gesture. Miss Watson is Widow and Douglas’ sister; she…

  • The Hobbit Study Guide

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    The Hobbit Study Guide Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Original title: The Hobbit : or There and Back Again Published: Published August 15th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin (first published September 21st 1937) Setting: Middle-earth ISBN 0618260307 (ISBN13: 9780618260300) Not everybody knows that Tolkien first wrote “The Hobbit” and only then started working on the “Lord of the…

  • Doctor Faustus Study Guide

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    Doctor Faustus Study Guide Author: Thomas Mann Original title: Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde Characters: Mephistopheles, Helen of Troy, Pope Adrian Leverkühn, Lucifer, Doctor Faustus, Wagner, Chorus (by Goethe), Good Angel and Evil Angel, Robin, A Knight at Charles’ Court, Three Scholars “The Tragical History of Doctor…

  • James Taggart

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    James Taggart is a true friend of the novel, spending most of his time in planning intrigues and spreading dirty gossip. Of course, he does not call the masses for revolution and havoc of fundamentals. He unconsciously loses control of his emotions, denying the deeds committed. James is both a criminal and prey of his…

  • The evil that men do lives after Julius Caesar

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    The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; Quote Analysis This quote belongs to Mark Anthony, the character from Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare. We meet these words in Act 3, Scene 2 in his speech in front of the plebs. Caesar is dead, Brutus and Cassius assassination…

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray Essays

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This famous line clearly explains the varying perspectives that people have when it comes to the idea of beauty. Beauty is subjective as an individual might believe that something or someone is beautiful while another person might have the exact opposite… 2…

  • Mr. Norton

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     Mr. Norton is a rich man who boasts to be the white. Such a desperate behavior to be superior makes the reader think that Mr. Norton is highly liberal; moreover, he is counted as a philanthropic individual. As a result, he hides his true intentions.  While the narrator asks Mr. Norton for employment, the last…

  • I wanted you to see what real courage is

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    I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Quote Analysis This quote appears in the Chapter 11, at…

  • Blefuscudians

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    Empire Blefuscu is an island north-east from Lilliputians. Only a shallow strait seven hundred yards wide divides both of these states. Its citizens are deadly enemies of Lilliputian’s country; they are involved in a chronic war. Also, tranquility in the country of Lilliputians is violated by the strife of warring parties of high-heeled and low-heeled…

  • Beloved Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess. Beloved 0 The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn’t worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change…