Category: Literature

  • Madame Bovary Study Guide

    Madame Bovary Study Guide Author: Gustave Flaubert Original title: Madame Bovary Characters: Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis, Monsieur Lheureux, The elder Madame Bovary, Monsieur Rouault, Hippolyte Published: 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published 1856) Setting: Rouen, 1850 (France) Yonville-l’Abbaye, 1850 (France) Tostes, 1850 (France) ISBN 0192840398 (ISBN13:…

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

    Cyrano is the main hero of the story. He is one of the most pleasant things, as he has a lot of sides. Nevertheless, he is not a dynamic character. Cyrano is shown as a poet, swordsman, scientist, soldier (member of Cadets of Gascoyne), musician, and playwright. But as it happens from time to time,…

  • That tears shall drown the wind. I Macbeth

    That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’ other. Quote Analysis These hesitant words are said by Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 7 Page 1 of “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Macbeth metaphorically concludes his long…

  • Dracula Study Guide

    Dracula Study Guide Author: Bram Stoker Original title: Dracula Characters: Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur Holmwood , R.M. Renfield, Mina Murray Harker, Mr. Swales, Count Dracula Published: May 12th 1986 by Norton (first published 1897) Setting: Whitby, Yorkshire, England, Transylvania (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), London, England (United Kingdom) ISBN 0393970124 (ISBN13: 9780393970128) Bram…

  • My happiness is not the means to Anthem

    My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.Neither am I the means to any ends others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a…

  • Collective 0-0009

    As can be deduced from his name, he stands for every typical member of numerous councils. The oldest member of the World Council of Scholars, Collective 0-0009 is considered to be the most “knowledgeable” man in the City. He is the mastermind behind the ideology of collectivism and homogenous human masses. A spineless weak man,…

  • Piani

    Piani is one of those characters about who we don’t know a lot of information. As he didn’t have lots of lines, we will tell you just a few moments in order to get you acquainted with him. Piani is a simple American ambulance driver with the Italian army who also took part in World…

  • Candy

    Candy is an old man who lives on a ranch. He lost one hand in the past because of an accident. Now he feels useless, and he is afraid that the owner will make him leave the ranch. When George arrives, Candy believes in the man’s dream to build a free farm, and Candy decides…

  • Death

    Being the narrator of the story Death doesn’t appear as a described character, but according to her words, we see that she is a fascinating character. Death is a sarcastic creature with a strange sense of humor. This character is dynamic in the novel as we see that during the novel progress and the World…

  • Bathsheba Everdene

    Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful, independent and willful women, who inherits from her uncle the family farm in the backwoods of Northern England and gains financial independence. Everdene is trying by all means to revive the former greatness of the estate, but at this time three different men are fighting for her heart. She is…