Category: Literature

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Essays

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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The concept of time travel was not a subject new for fiction. However, it was quite a leap for the like of Mark Twain who has been writing about clear-cut fiction (To Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) before he wrote something purely out of fantasy. The Legend of King Arthur…

  • John Proctor

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    This is our hero, protagonist, the main character of the text. He isn’t a good person at all. He cheats on his wife; he can’t remember the main ten testaments (but he continues going to the church every Sunday). Also, he is the biggest stubborn person that you have ever seen being angry pretty much…

  • Short Stories

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    Jerome David Salinger is an American writer who is primarily known for his “The Catcher in the Rye” novel. The novel was primarily intended for the youth audience but is now popular among all age groups. Salinger’s books open to the readers a world of a naïve and delicate…

  • Virgilio

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    Virgilio is an ancient Greek poet. He becomes the conductor of Dante and will save him from the three predatory animals that personify the three human vices. It is sensuality, greed, and lust. In the comedy, Virgilio is personified as intelligence and wisdom that can save from these vices. To some extent, Virgilio is Dante,…

  • An Enemy of the People Study Guide

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    An Enemy of the People Study Guide Author: Henrik Ibsen Original title: En folkefiende The bitter and satirical play of Henrik Ibsen was, to the great extent, his answer to the reaction of the critics to his previous work, “Ghosts”. The play was named scandalous, because the author dared to discuss such problems as adultery…

  • Gaius Julius Caesar

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    Despite the fact that the tragedy is named after him, Julius Caesar is not the main character, but rather a spring of action. It is around him (initially alive, and even more so – dead, killed by Conspirators-Republicans) unfold all the events of the plot, as well as reveal the characters of the remaining characters.…

  • If music be the food of love, Twelfth Night

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    If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It Quote Analysis Act 1 Scene 1 line 1-3 This quote opens one of the most famous plays of William Shakespeare – “Twelfth Night” – in…

  • The Prelude Essays

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    Wordsworth’s Romantic Masterpiece: ‘The Prelude’ and Its Characteristics as a Psychological Epic The Age of romanticism was an age (and was also considered a philosophical movement) of pure ‘transcendental’ discovery which focused on the ‘growth’ of the creative, artistic, and sensual emotions of the individual (Britannica Encyclopaedia). Since the individual was seen as an important……

  • Common Sense Study Guide

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    Common Sense Study Guide Author: Thomas Paine Original title: Common Sense Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocates the fight of the people of the Thirteen Colonies against the British egalitarian government. Short and plain, it had a great influence on the society. Thomas Paine, following the ideas of Enlightenment, made…

  • Jason Compson IV

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    Jason represents the modern bourgeois order that came to replace the patriarchal past of the American South. This is the most down-to-earth character of all that appears in the book; he has a sober way of thinking and cold calculation in all things that surround him. As a child, Jason showed a healthy craving for…