Category: Study Guides
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Common Sense Essays
Thomas Paine Common Sense Summary Common sense was a book that was written by Thomas Paine and published in 1776 anonymously. The book presented the colonist in America with an argument for independence in a time that the issue of freeing America from the british rule had not been raised. Paine put his work in…
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John Galt
Protagonist and the main query of the novel, answer to which readers are looking for in a long plot. His temper is surrounded by numerous legends about the fountain of youth or the underwater country. John belongs to the gray cardinals, pulling strings for the sake of the evolution of the surrounding world. He leads…
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Wagner
He represents a desk scholar for whom there is only book knowledge. It is the latter that should reveal an essence of being and the secrets of nature. In the tragedy of Goethe, Wagner is the opposite of Faust, striving to comprehend the meaning of existence through active participation in it. In the first part…
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Steve Randel
Steve Randel is the member of the band and the best friend of Sodapop Curtis. This character works at the gas station with him on a part-time basis. He is seventeen years old. The distinctive feature of the character’s appearance is that he likes to comb his hair in special swirls. He is tall and…
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Sense and Sensibility Essays
Sense and Sensibility Abstract At the beginning of the 19th century, social class was something more than it is now; social class determined behavioral patterns, attitudes, manners, and limitations of one’s social conduct. Women of the lower professional class were constantly employed with their home duties; women of… 575 words Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility…
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Professor Nemur
This scientist leads the experiment with the mental improvement for Algernon and Charlie. He is arrogant and pig-headed. He is a great scientist because he manages to conduct such an operation which gives the man ability to learn for some period of time. However, professor Nemur doesn’t take into account people’s feelings and emotions. He…
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Saint Joan Essays
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw St Joan is a 1923 play by prolific Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. The play, one of 60 he wrote, is based, unusually for him, upon historical events, has 6 scenes plus an epilogue and when performed in full runs to about 4 hours, which is very long by…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls Essays
Ernest Hemmingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls There is a lot of symbolism in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ernest Hemmingway characterizes the inner struggle that exists in men who engage in war. The motivations and passion begin to erode, leaving desperate men in a struggle about which they no longer feel strongly.…
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The Old Woman
This character is a typical old woman, who come across various hard things and is still strong. She was born as the daughter of a Pope. She has hard experience in her life – her fiancé died, pirates raped her, he was a slave, and also she saw cannibalism in wartime. In the novel, she…
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R.M. Renfield
He thinks that life is the thing where you have to try everything. That is why he begins eating different strange stuff like flies, spiders, and even birds while they are raw and live. Maybe Dracula liked this insanity because he made Renfield as his helper. Once our boy betrayed the vampires and Dracula killed…