Category: Literature

  • Janine

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    Janine is an ordinary Housemaid who is a bit luckier than all the other girls in the house of Gilead. She gave birth to a baby. Therefore, other women are envious. The narrator knows her since being at the Red Centre. It is soon revealed that Janine’s baby is transformed to the “Unbaby,” and it…

  • Volpone Summary

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    Volpone is a story of one day from life of aforementioned Volpone – a nobleman living in seventeenth-century Venice and a con artist. The play starts at his house when he leads his “parasite” Mosca (who may be a slave or a servant or a mix of both) to the secret room in the house,…

  • Of Mice and Men Summary

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    We meet our heroes, George and Lenny, somewhere in California, on a hot afternoon. It’s 1930s, the years of the Dust Bowl that thrown people to the bottom of poverty. Lennie Small and George Milton are friends on their way to rancho, where some work for them was promised. George, small and sharp-minded, had already…

  • The office manager

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    The office manager is the chief clerk at Gregor’s office. Trustworthy and powerful, he hints at the fact that Gregor works poorly. He has come to see why Gregor missed the early train. The Samsa family and the office manager are aghast when they see Gregor’s new form, but Gregor continues to attempt to defend…

  • The Once and Future King Essays

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    The Once and Future King “There is nothing,” said the monarch, “except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest, power to seek and power to find, power to await and power to claim, all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck.” … “Love is a…

  • King Lear Study Guide

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    King Lear Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedie of King Lear Characters: Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, King Lear Published: Published 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1603) ISBN 074348276X (ISBN13: 9780743482769) A magnificent tragedy “King Lear”…

  • Fahrenheit 451 Essays

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    Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury, is a story about a society where the government controls the thoughts, and actions of the citizens. Bradbury’s futuristic society has no past and is completely empty. The works and knowledge created in the centuries before, banished and burned. His world contains… 1 658 words Ray…

  • Syme

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    We can state that Syme has an agile mind and can plunge into the consciousness of people. He is a philologist who works on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. The author doesn’t describe his appearance; he just highlights that this man is a devoted Party member. Winston adores the conversations with Syme as…

  • Antonio

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    A present Duke of Milano, Antonio is the villainous usurper, guilty for Prospero’s exile. Knowing his elder brother’s love for books and studies, Antonio practically literally pushed the throne from under him. Prospero’s trust and reliance paid off badly: not being able to kill him and the two or three-year-old Miranda openly, Antonio sends them…

  • John

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    He is the narrator’s husband who helps her overcome depression but not in the best way. He decides to keep her in one room closed and alone. Here she starts to have these imaginative attacks. Although John seems to love her wife and care for her, he doesn’t put any extra efforts to listen to…