Category: Literature

  • My Ántonia Summary

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    When he is only ten years old, Jim Burden finds himself an orphaned boy in Virginia during the late 1880s. He is forced to move to Nebraska to live with his grandparents and boards a train to their farm with a worker named Jake. On the same train he encounters a bohemian family, the Shimerdas…

  • Louisa Gradgrind

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    This lady is the eldest Mr. Gradgrind’s daughter whose life experience proved ambiguity of her father’s principles of education. She is the protagonist of the story, and a reader gets acquainted with this girl from her young age. She was under the substantial influence of her father’s ideas; this means that she was obliged to…

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Study Guide

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Study Guide Author: Maya Angelou Original title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Characters: Maya Angelou, Annie Henderson ‘Momma’, Bailey Johnson, Mother (Vivien Baxter), Mr. Freeman , Dr. Lincoln, Tommy Valdon “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is a chronicle of the first 16 years of Maya…

  • Medea Study Guide

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    Medea Study Guide Author: Euripides Original title: Mήδεια Published: April 19th 1993 by Dover Publications (first published -431) Setting: Corinth (Greece) ISBN 0486275485 (ISBN13: 9780486275482) “Medea” belongs to the authorship of a great Ancient writer Euripides. It is based on a story of a woman whose husband leaves her for another princess. In despair, she…

  • Juliet Capulet

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    The main heroine of the tragedy is Juliet Capulet, a fourteen-year-old carefree girl. However, despite her young age, she has a non-child depth of thinking. She is rich, both internal and external beauty, constantly attracts and fascinates with her blooming youth. The heroine is represented in the image of a clean, educated and intelligent lady…

  • The Way of the World Summary

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    “The Way of the World”, written by William Congreve, was launched in 1700 in London. Although the play Is now regarded as one of the best comic plays of all times, during that time, it was considered to be too fast due to the explicit sexual tones used in the content. In addition to “The…

  • The Importance of Being Earnest Summary

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    The background of the play’s first scene is set in the flat of the wealthy Algernon Moncrieff, who is also known as Algy, in the Mayfair area of West London. He is expecting a visit from his aunt, Lady Bracknell, and her daughter, and Algy’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax. He is surprised to find that it…

  • Macbeth Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Macbeth 31 MACBETH:Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,Raze out the written troubles of the brain,And with some sweet oblivious antidoteCleanse the stuff’d bosom of the perilous stuffWhich weighs upon the heart?DOCTOR:Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Macbeth 30 A little…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Study Guide

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    The Handmaid’s Tale Study Guide Author: Margaret Atwood Original title: The Handmaid’s Tale Characters: The Commander, Offred, Serena Joy, Ofglen, Nick, Moira, Luke Castellan, Aunt Lydia, Cora, Janine Published: Published March 16th 1998 by Anchor Books (first published 1985) Setting: Cambridge, Massachusetts,2005(United States) Republic of Gilead,2005 ISBN 038549081X (ISBN13: 9780385490818) Margaret Atwood, born in Canada,…

  • The Age of Innocence Study Guide

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    The Age of Innocence Study Guide Author: Edith Wharton Original title: The Age of Innocence “The Age of Innocence” is a romantic novel about duty, independence and unrequited love, that brought to its author fame and the unofficial title of “The First Lady of the Letters”. It is a beautiful story that lets us immerse…