Category: Literature

  • Leaves of Grass Summary

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    Walt Whitman, who later became known as American bard and since is forever a part of the world classical literature, was born in West Hills, Long Island in New York on 31rd of May, 1819. His family were immigrants – his mother Louisa came from Holland and his father Walter, after whom Whitman Jr. was…

  • A Room of One’s Own Study Guide

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    A Room of One’s Own Study Guide Author: Virginia Woolf Original title: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf was an English writer and literary critic. She was the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the 20th century. Her works became the classics of the “flow of consciousness.” And her…

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins Summary

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    The novel begins with the narration of a girl named Karana. She is twelve years old, and she lives with her family in an island village named Ghalas-at. Her family of six consists of her six year old brother Ramo, Ulape her elder sister and her father Chowig, who is also Ghalas-at’s chief. The story…

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge Essays

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    The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge, written by Thomas Hardy, is a masterpiece with the immortal Michael Henchard as the lead character, who is arguably the greatest creation of Thomas Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a human tragedy which gives a deep moral message regarding the evil consequences of… 1 808 words…

  • Walden Essays

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    Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Considering that Henry David Thoreau’s non fiction book, Walden was first published in 1854, it is somewhat surprising to discover that the 154-year gap is really not that extensive to expect change in our society. Change here is referred to the world and people’s priorities and state of living… 418 words…

  • Twelve Years a Slave Study Guide

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    Twelve Years a Slave Study Guide Author: Solomon Northup Original title: Twelve Years a Slave Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir he tried to write as precisely as possible. This book contains no morals like in “Uncle Toms Cabin” and no epiphany. The goal of Northup was to describe the institute…

  • Siddhartha Summary

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    The main character of the story is a young brahman (a member of the upper Indian caste) named Siddhardha. He is raised in wealth and love but still feels he lacks something inside of him. Siddhartha and his best friend Govinda decide to go for a quest for Atman. Atman is something incomprehensible, the sense…

  • Wuthering Heights Summary

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    The story starts in the cold winter of 1801 when the narrator named Lockwood decides to rent a manor with a poetic name Thrushcross Grange. The manor stands aside the major road in the middle of the moors and abandoned fields. The man who owns the manor, Heathcliff, lives nearby, in the mansion called Wuthering…

  • Aunt Drusilla

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    We doesn’t know a lot of useful, or at least any other information about this character. She doesn’t have a big role or impact. But still, she is Jude’s elderly great-aunt, who works as a baker in Marygreen. She is a fiercely devout evangelical who raises him indifferently after Jude’s father dies. So, we can…

  • Offred

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    The narrator is a female character who actually doesn’t have a name at all. She is once called as Offred, but she immediately discards that name, saying that she has another one which is forbidden to tell everyone. One of the reasons why she is left nameless is that she represents each woman who experiences…