Category: Literature
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Summary
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a tragicomedy play about two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are courtiers and childhood friends of Hamlet’s. In this absurdist play, they are confused by what is going on, given that they only experience snippets of stage time on Hamlet and they don’t have much to…
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Captain John Yossarian
He is the protagonist of the novel. At first, he appears as a bored joker, who censors the letters of soldiers and signs as Washington Irving, or as Irving Washington sometimes. Then we learn that he starts to be afraid of the flights and tries to get an exemption from combat sorties by all possible…
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Joseph
Joseph is a servant of Heathcliff. He served at Earnshoe and Heathcliffe. He is confused, pious and silly. Joseph is an old, hypocritical, pious, rough and hard-headed servant. He served when Katie and Hindley Earnshoe were children and stayed with Heathcliffe, and then at Harton. Homemakers constantly suffer from his sermons and accusations of aiding…
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A Raisin in the Sun Essays
A Raisin in the Sun In A Raisin In The Sun an interesting story of a family’s ups and downs unfolds in a small apartment. This book by Lorraine Hansberry illustrates how a family’s dreams can dry up just like a raisin in the sun. The family, the Youngers are a family of five living…
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John Wilson
John Wilson doesn’t have many lines in a book. But we will tell you at least that information which we know. He is the eldest clergyman in Boston, a great scholar, a friend of Arthur Dimmesdale, and like most of the people in this profession, and he is a man of kind and genial spirit.…
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The Natural Summary
The story opens with the main character named Roy Hobbes, a baseball player, who is in the train travelling to Chicago. He is in the same car with his manager Sam, who has just negotiated Roy’s participating in the team of Chicago Cubs. The author describes the other passengers of the train car: among them…
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Richard II Study Guide
Richard II Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedie of King Richard the Second Richard II by William Shakespeare is a historical drama, the first one in the epic tetralogy that is called Henriade by some researches. It tells us the tragic story of the aforementioned King Richard II, from the pinnacle of…
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The Divine Comedy Study Guide
The Divine Comedy Study Guide Author: Dante Alighieri Original title: La Divina Commedia Characters: Virgilio, Odysseus, Achilles, Dante Alighieri, Beatrice, Roland Dante Alighieri is a fascinating medieval figure. He has experienced the tragedy of loosing a loved one who he didn’t even have a chance to marry because his family chose another woman to be…
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Treasure Island Study Guide
Treasure Island Study Guide Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Original title: Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson wrote “Treasure Island” in 1881. Once named a “boy’s book”, it received wide appraisal among general public as a great adventure novel. If you love pirates, gold hunt quests, secret maps, abundance of alcohol or crazy parties, tropical nature and…
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Rev. Parris
Parris is very little, miserable and even wormy character. If Abigail is a magnetic, Saruman-like villain, Parris is more like Wormtongue. There is nothing we like about this personage. Parris is avaricious. John Proctor accuses Parris of this several times in the play. The Reverend gives not strong justifications at all, and never denies any…