Category: Study Guides
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Something Wicked This Way Comes Essays
‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ The movie “Something Wicked This Way Comes” is an adaptation of Bradbury’s novel which illustrates a fundamental aspect of human behavior which might otherwise be explained only in a work of great complexity. The movie vividly portrays a battle between good and evil through the eyes of children… 1 123…
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Ulysses Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It’s a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak. Ulysses 16 Yes,…
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Caliban
A piteous creature, deformed slave of Prospero, Caliban is an offspring of witch Sycorax, possibly from her “romantic involvement” with the Devil himself. In fact, he is the only native inhabitant of the island and spent there alone something like twelve years since his mother’s death. At first, his relations with Prospero were mutually useful:…
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The Last of the Mohicans Study Guide
The Last of the Mohicans Study Guide Author: James Fenimore Cooper Original title: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 Characters: Chingachgook, Magua, Uncas, Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Major Duncan Heyward, General Marquis de Montcalm, Hawkeye, Col. Edmund Munro, Tamanend “The Last of the Mohicans” is one part of a number of historical…
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Ilsa Hermann
Ilsa is the mayor’s wife. Ilsa is a well-educated woman, and she even has her library which was a very rare thing in that period. Her son Johann froze to death in the final year of the World War I. Ilsa likes Liesel: when she saw how Liesel stole a book from the fire, she…
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Ethan Frome Summary
The story of Ethan Frome starts off as a narrative from the perspective of an engineer who remains nameless throughout the story and portrays his feelings throughout the timeline. The events start 20 years prior to the main story of the character Ethan Frome and give an insight of the knowledge of the 20 years…
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Macbeth Essays – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
Macbeth, a Play Full of Darkness Macbeth is a play full of darkness, evil, and tragedy. It is the story of a man who goes against his conscience and commits a horrible deed which leads to his destruction and loss of everything he has around him. This includes the relationship he has with his wife,…
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Fahrenheit 451 Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Fahrenheit 451: Guy Montag And People Who Influenced Him Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future in a time where such ridiculous things as reading books, driving slowly, and walking outside are prohibited and the job of firemen involves burning books. The main character, Guy Montag, is one of the many firemen and he expects…
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King Lear Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! King Lear 2 Prev123
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Kindred Study Guide
Kindred Study Guide Author: Octavia E. Butler Original title: Kindred Characters: Dana (Edana) Franklin , Kevin Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Alice Jackson (Greenwood) , Sarah, Tom Weylin , Margaret Weylin , Nigel , Carrie , Alice’s mother The novel “Kindred” was written by Octavia Butler in 1979. It is one of the few slave narratives written…
