Category: Literature
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Crooks
This character represents black men who are forced to live in isolation because of racism. Crooks has received his name due to his crooked past. He lives alone, but when Lennie starts talking with him, Crooks tries to befriend him. It means that this character is fed up with loneliness, and he needs communication. He…
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Though she be but little she is fierce
Though she be but little she is fierce. Quote Analysis Act 3 Scene 2 line 335 This characterisation of Hermia goes from her former-friend-now-rival Helena in Act 3 Scene 2. Helena knows pretty well that Hermia isn’t satisfied with her height and deliberately presses the sore point, even when she tries to avoid the fight…
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Number the Stars Study Guide
Number the Stars Study Guide Author: Lois Lowry Original title: Number the Stars Published: February 9th 1998 by Dell Yearling (first published 1989) Setting: Denmark, 1943 ISBN 0440227534 (ISBN13: 9780440227533) Lois Lowry wrote “Number the Stars” in 1989. The book talks about a Jewish family who, just like many other Jews, found themselves entrapped in…
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Ophelia
At the beginning of the play, poor Ophelia, the maiden fair, possesses everything necessary to obtain the condition that passed for a happy marriage at that times. She is young, innocent, beautiful and completely obedient. Both Polonius and Laertes warn her not to get into a too intimate relationship with young Hamlet, and for a…
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Robert Ferrars
Robert Ferrars is the youngest child of Mrs. Ferrars and a brother of Fanny and Edward. Along with the elder brother and a sister, he depends on his strict and despotic mother financially and is obliged to follow her wills. At the same time, as well as Mrs. Ferrars, Robert is highly interested in money,…
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Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
He is an attorney, an enterprising and egoistic businessman. His main crime is his overwhelming, relentless arrogance and self-interest. He is the only character who refuses to recognize his faults. Impressed by the beauty and enlightenment of Dunya Raskolnikov, Luzhin makes her offer. He thinks that the noble girl who has experienced a lot of…
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Our Town Summary
Our town is a play based on the lives of the inhabitants of Grover’s Corner, a small town in New Hampshire. The play is divided into three acts portraying the different stages of these lives. The play takes place in a mostly empty space with little to no props. The characters pantomime their actions for…
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The Ambassadors Study Guide
The Ambassadors Study Guide Author: Henry James Original title: The Ambassadors No matter how rigid and defined the setting is, “The Ambassadors” is a book about emotions and emotional freedom. We meet the main character, Lambert Strether, a middle-aged and very ordinary man, who decides to marry a very proper woman. But his fiancée-to-be sets…
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Othello Summary
Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, written circa 1603, can be viewed as one of the earliest literary piece dealing with the problem, which still exists now: racism. This is a story of marriage between Othello, a Moorish general in Venetian army, and a lovely white noble woman, Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, made unhappy by scheming…
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Young Siward
Siward is a General of the British Army and Earl of Northumberland. Since he is Duncan’s brother, he proclaims the British army against Macbeth. Soldiers of his army are masked by the branches from Birnam Wood, making the prophecy of the witches. The witches claimed that Macbeth would fall when Birnam Wood was removed to…