Category: Literature

Cleopatra being a queen of Egypt is an attractive woman who knows how to use her beauty to seduce men. She is a former lover of Caesar and Pompey. Now she is in love with Mark Antony. Sometimes emotions control her actions. Cleopatra often behaves like an actress, although her love to Antony is not…

Tom’s evil and tyrannical final master. If Tom is good, Simon is an evil. Legree is a Yankee who has moved to the South to make his money in the plantation business. Being a very big alcoholic, he brutalizes his slaves and forces them to live in the awful conditions that you can even imagine.…

Colonel Brandon is one of the lead characters in the Novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Throughout the narration, he is described as a man at the age of 35 prefers to keep silence instead of talking to people. As a matter of fact, Colonel Brandon is a gentleman with good manners who appears…

An elderly academic whose profession is no longer needed as people’s urge for knowledge and intellectual development aren’t welcomed. Faber is trying to cope with authoritative norms in his own way. But even being an avid collector and admirer of books who dreams of enlarging his collection, the ex-professor considers himself too old and scared…

Sula Study Guide Author: Toni Morrison Original title: Sula Published: Published April 5th 2002 by Plume Books (first published 1973) ISBN 0452283868 (ISBN13: 9780452283862) “Sula” is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1973. Toni came to the literary path from a creative family and her career is a work of art in itself. In…

Death of a Salesman Study Guide Author: Arthur Miller Original title: Death of a Salesman Characters: Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Happy Loman, Biff Loman, Charley, Bernard, Ben Published: March 18th 1994 by Heinemann Library (first published 1949) Setting: New York City, New York (United States) ISBN 0435233076 (ISBN13: 9780435233075) Who said that drama died together…

Miss Temple is one of the good characters in the novel. She is kind-hearted, fair and always ready to help all those deprived by destiny girls. She treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. With Bessie Lee, she is one of the first good females who appeared in Jane’s life. Finally, poor girl had…

John is the main hero of the story. But even if we see that the story takes place in the Western style, our hero definitely doesn’t begin as the Western one. John Grady is an attractive young man, who is also called a ladies’ man. He isn’t from that stupid Casanovas at all. He is…

Miss Sophia Grey is the most mysterious woman of the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. It is another minor character presented to the audience as a rich and unpleasant person that attracts young and handsome fellows with her money. One of them appears to be Mr. Willoughby, a character, who has lost comfortable…