Category: Study Guides
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Mrs. Johnson
Mrs. Johnson who is also known as Wilhelmina Othella Johnson is the last minor character of the play to be discussed. This character plays an insufficient role and in included in the play for comic relief. The playwright describes her to be an angry and always unsatisfied neighbor who regularly causes troubles to others. This…
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Anthem Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue. Anthem 3 Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you. For…
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To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes – Page 14 | Just Great DataBase
quería que vieses lo que es la verdadera bravura, en vez de hacerte la idea de que la bravura la encarna un hombre con un arma en la mano. Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final pase lo que pase.…
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Giles Corey
Giles Corey is a strong old man who has recently converted to Christianity. He’s likeable but is not too bright. His biggest bumble in the play is when he brings up the fact that his wife reads strange books. To Giles, any book is strange, and the idea of a woman wanting to read blows his mind.…
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Adso of Melk
In the declining years, the Benedictine monk Adso recalls events, an eyewitness, and participant of which he happened to be in 1327. When political and church discords shook Europe. In this confusion, Adso, then a young novice, accompanies the English Franciscan William of Baskerville in his travels through the cities and largest monasteries of Italy.…
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Marie Cardona
This character is Meursault’s girlfriend. She works as a typist at Mersault’s office, exactly in that place they first met. She sees his changes, and that he even probably doesn’t love her, but nevertheless wants to marry him and have several nice kids. Meursault likes her for her beautiful shape of the body, her nice…
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The Diary of a Young Girl Essays
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne’s optimism contrasts Peter Van Daan’s initial pessimism. Rather quiet and bewildered by the sudden turn in his life, he spends much time locked in his own room. Anne gradually develops a romantic interest in Peter and convinces him not to succumb to pessimism but to hope for a…
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Theater
Bernard Shaw is an English playwright and an Irishman by descent. He is considered one of the founders of the “drama of ideas”, writer, essayist, one of the reformers of theatrical art of the XX century. He is the second one in popularity rating (after Shakespeare), the author of…
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Mrs. Costello
Ms. Costello is the main instrument Henry James uses for a high-level society in Europe. He has such a high social situation that from time to time he can not even weaken interaction with the world outside the hotel room and his nephew. He constantly judges the actions of other people and always considers them…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Study Guide
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Study Guide Author: Stieg Larsson Original title: Män som hatar kvinnor Characters: Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Henrik Vanger, Martin Vanger, Harriet Vanger Most of people tend to believe they have never experienced the contemporary literature of Nordic countries until they realize that Stieg Larsson, who wrote the legendary “The…
