Category: Literature

  • A Rose for Emily Study Guide

    A Rose for Emily Study Guide Author: William Faulkner Original title: A Rose for Emily Characters: Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Judge Stevens, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris Published: January 1st 1970 by Merrill Publishing Company (first published November 1st 1930) Setting: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (United States) ISBN 0675093244 (ISBN13: 9780675093248) “A Rose for Emily” is…

  • Hiroshima Summary

    Written by John Hersey, this is a novel that speaks about the destruction and trauma that the people of Hiroshima had to face during the attack on Hiroshima. The main intent of the author is to rebuild the events of the day when it all went down through stories of the survivors. After the Japanese…

  • Polyphemus

    He is minor character of the poem. Polyphemus is a gigantic Cyclopes whose island Odysseus comes soon after leaving Troy. Polyphemus is a son of Poseidon. It is complicated and impossible to speak about the inner world and personal characteristics of this creature but we can conclude that it is a negative antagonist. According to…

  • Redresal

    This personage is from Lilliputian’s land. He is the chief secretary of the secret affairs of the country and also a Gulliver’s friend. He tells him about the two warring parties of high and low heels and about the Blefuscu — empire on the big island, with which the Lilliputians fights. Redresal also secretly warns…

  • Thénardier (Jondrette)

    Thénardier is a cruel and selfish man, who is an innkeeper together with his wife. They have five children, and also, Cosette lives with them, and they exploit her making her work hard about the house. Thénardier is an example of an unfair and immoral person, and it is visible in numerous episodes. For example,…

  • Arcadio

    Arcadio is the illegitimate son of José Arcadio and Pilar Turner. He is a school teacher. However, he took over the leadership of Macondo at the request of Colonel Aureliano, when he was forced to leave the city. Arcadio can be described as a despotic dictator. He tried to uproot the church, because of his…

  • Beelzebub

    He is one of the Fallen Angels and Satan’s second in the group. He is the first Satan sees when they are in hell and also Beelzebub is the first whom Satan takes him while planning rebellion. Later, the devil uses Beelzebub as a thing – he gets hell’s council of fallen angels to force…

  • Mr. Charrington

    He is the secondary character who has the antique shop. At the first glimpse, Mr. Charrington is an old man who is on historical past. This kind personage is beside the point of the Party. In the second part, we are the witnesses of the great growth of the Mr.Charrington as he becomes the member…

  • Garrett Deasy

    Garrett Deasy is the minor character of the novel. Garrett Deasy is the headmaster in the school where Stephen Dedalus teaches and is pompous and opinionated. He, as a person who creates a cohesive community, knows that his own strategy cannot be realized in life on his own. He knows that he needs a highly functional team. Garrett Deasy knows that a…

  • Ishtar

    Ishtar is the goddess of the most beautiful and awful things in the world – the first is related to Love, Fertility, and the second is related to War. Also, she is the daughter of Anu. Ishtar sends the Bull of Heaven to attack Gilgamesh. You may say – what? Are you okay? But don’t…