Category: Study Guides

  • The Color Purple Essays

    The Color Purple Introduction Alice Walker’s novel revolves around major issues that were associated predominantly by medieval black community at a time when aspects regarding slavery were taking front stage in almost any argument. The novel therefore provides significant reflection of the developing aspects… 1 094 words Women of the Color Purple In the novel,…

  • Piggy (LOTF)

    Because of his poor eyesight, asthma, and excessive weight, Piggy is mocked by other boys except for Ralph and Simon. Despite being a complete outsider, he is perhaps the most intelligent boy on the island. His scientific and rational mind helps the boys to make their lives civilized and comfortable until they are rescued. As…

  • Catch-22 Essays

    An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Catch 22, by Joseph Heller, is a critique of the society that we live in. Whoever is proud of what we have advanced to, and is unwilling to look at it in a negative light, would find this book…

  • A Clockwork Orange Summary

    The narrative starts in the grotesque futuristic society governed by a totalitarian regime. Citizens are perfectly obedient and perfectly neglective, willingly oblivious to everything that happens with anyone else except themselves. This neglection gives birth to the ultra-violent movement of teenagers, young criminals lacking anything even vaguely resembling morals. They enjoy beating people to death,…

  • The Taming of the Shrew Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    Taming of the Shrew& Shakespeare Analysis Paper The 16th century play, Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and the modern movie 10 Things I hate about you are correspondent to each other in many ways. They have very similar characters names and their behaviors, similar plots, and themes. The characters are very similar to…

  • The Maze Runner Essays

    Poetry Connection with the Maze Runner Connections between The Maze Runner and Lost Memories Both my book, The Maze Runner, and the poem, Lost Memories, have something to do with lost memories. The main character Thomas awoke in a lift. He does not remember anything. The poems said “My mind went blank. ” This is…

  • Muley Graves

    Muley is a crazy old guy. In the book, he is a big friend of the Joad family. These two families had the same desire – to leave. Once he lost his house, land, and everything he liked. After that lost his wife and their children decided to run away and begin living from the…

  • Blanche Ingram

    Blanche Ingram is, let’s be honest, not a beautiful girl. The daughter of one of Rochester’s distant neighbors, Blanche gets interested in him because of his fortune and because she thinks an ugly husband would be easy to dominate. She’s a beautiful, selfish snob with a severe attitude problem. Her name, ‘Blanche,’ clues us in…

  • Phaedra Study Guide

    Phaedra Study Guide Author: Jean-Baptiste Racine Original title: Phaedra Phaedra is a tragedy based on Greek mythology and dedicated to the only topic: the unrequited love. We see it in many forms: tender affection of star-crossed lovers, all-consuming forbidden passion and the calm love of a caring husband, who doesn’t know that he is not…

  • Oedipus the King Summary

    The play is based on the myth about Oedipus, which was well-known to the ancient Greeks. But Sophocles reinterprets the myth in his own way. Understanding that the audience knows the ending well enough, he changes the accent from the final tragedy to the feelings of Oedipus himself, showing how he, acting as a noble…