Category: Study Guides

  • Ethan Frome Study Guide

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    Ethan Frome Study Guide Author: Edith Wharton Original title: Ethan Frome Characters: Ethan Frome, Zenobia (Zeena) Frome, Mattie Silver, The Narrator (Ethan Frome) Published: September 28th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1911) Setting: Starkfield, Massachusetts (United States) New England (United States) Massachusetts (United States) ISBN 0142437808 (ISBN13: 9780142437803) “Ethan Frome” is a work of…

  • Stephen Blackpool

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    Stephen represents completely another layer of society than, for instance, Mr. Bounderby or Mr. Gradgrind. The character represents the working staff; therefore, he has no opportunity to make a living. Stephen works on Mr. Bounderby’s factory and faces all the limitations of the industrial system. Later, the plot of the story is developed in a…

  • Waiting for Godot Summary

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    The play “Waiting for Godot” by Beckett deliberately lacks sense, leaving to the audience the right to take the events of it literally or metaphorically and guess by themselves who is the mysterious Godot, a universal trouble-solver: God, magician or just a random authority figure. The insane logic of the events makes “Alice in Wonderland”…

  • Ragueneau

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    Ragueneau is an example of a good person. He is Cyrano’s friend, who helps him in lots of hard situations. At the beginning of the play, he is a beloved pastry cook, who is very popular throughout the whole city and is something close to being called a rich person. But as it sometimes happens,…

  • Baby Suggs

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    Baby Suggs is a kind of person that everyone goes to tell their problems and troubles. These are the problems that couldn’t be said to parents or friends but are too hard to hide inside. She loves all people and is always open-hearted for everyone who needs her help. She is similar to a pastor…

  • Colonel Cathcart

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    Colonel Cathcart is a pronounced antagonist of the novel. He is fulfilled with numerous contradictions. Cathcart is very conceited, as he is already a colonel and a combat commander at his age. At the same time, he feels depressed that at the age of 36 he is only a colonel. As we can see, all…

  • Jane Eyre Study Guide

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    Jane Eyre Study Guide Author: Charlotte Brontë Original title: Jane Eyre Characters: Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, Grace Poole, Blanche Ingram, Adele Varens, St. John Rivers, Helen Burns, Mr. Brocklehurst , John Reed, Georgiana Reed, Eliza Reed, Bessie Lee, Rosamond Oliver, Mr. Edward Rochester , Mrs. Reed , Miss Temple , Diana and Mary Rivers “Jane…

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    Mostly, I’d just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1 Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with…

  • The Caterpillar

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    Caterpillar seems to be one of the most mysterious inhabitants (as it is possible in Wonderland). His figure is wrapped around with a smoke like a cloud. The caterpillar is the exact opposite of an eternally fussy Rabbit or inquisitive Alice. He prefers not to hurry somewhere and talks slowly and quietly. Nevertheless, he teaches…

  • Lockwood

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    Heathcliffe rescuer, who takes Skvortsy about 20 years after the main events of the novel. A narrative begins from his face, continued by the story of Nelly, that was told him during an illness in Skvortsy. He is a tenant at Thrushcross Grange who becomes intrigued with the Earnshaw family history. Ellen Dean is his…