Category: Literature

  • Angela’s Ashes Study Guide

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    Angela’s Ashes Study Guide Author: Frank McCourt Original title: Angela’s Ashes “Angela’s Ashes” is memoirs by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt that depicts his poor childhood in Limerick. It is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The book, which brought the author Pulitzer Prize for 1997. Poverty drove the Irish across the…

  • The Fountainhead Essays

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    Ideal man / Ideal woman of Ayn Rand’s ‘The Fountainhead’ Morals and ethics are becoming more stringent with time all over the world especially by imposing stifling expectations on women in concerning their societal roles. When the novel was written women had just then begun to see the seeds of their struggle in gaining rights…

  • I stand here on the summit of Anthem

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    I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    To kill a Mockingbird Themes Although Scout and Gem aren’t as ignorant as many of the more educated adults are, here Ignorance stands out as different because theirs doesn’t make them racist or sexist. When they lose their innocence they are losing their shield of ignorance. Their Ignorance comes and goes throughout the book… 730…

  • The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

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    The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is gloomy, vague, silent figure. He looks like this because he has nothing pleasant to show Scrooge. Death, betrayal, the joy of people for his death— all this affects and heals the soul of the hero at the same time. The most terrible test was made for Scrooge…

  • Mr. Swales

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    This old man is a little bit horrifying too. He is an archetypical figure who was made based on the historical George Swales. This old guy has a strange gift; he could feel each bad thing. But as it happened in many books, no one believes him. What we do know about him is that…

  • Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin

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    Dmitry is a former student, Raskolnikov`s friend from the university. He is a healthy, funny, intelligent, sincere and direct person with a full Russian soul. He likes to talk the whole truth in a face. Razumikhin sticks by his friend, even when Raskolnikov’s behavior is baffling or rude. When his friendship withstands even the recognition…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes – Page 9 | Just Great DataBase

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    всякая толпа состоит из людей. To Kill a Mockingbird 2 We’re the safest folks in the world,” said Miss Maudie. “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us. To Kill a Mockingbird 2 Atticus was right. One time he said you never…

  • Rosencrantz and Guildentstern

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    Two Hamlet’s schoolmates from Wittenberg appear in the play as a seemingly cheerful pair a-la Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They arrive to Elsinor at Claudius’s command, and their purpose is spying on Hamlet and finding out the causes of his supposed madness. These two simpletons fail, for Hamlet knows them and understands their goal at once.…

  • Bartleby

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    Bartleby with inhuman energy works smoothly and uninterruptedly, but his work is mechanical, devoid of creative impulse. Thus, the scribe appears as a device for copying, a machine-machine in which human emotions, feelings, fatigue are absent. The request for any other operations and activities encounters a stubborn refusal – I would not have preferred. Bartleby…