Category: Study Guides

  • Granma Joad

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    The Granma is the matriarch of the whole family. She and the husband – Grampa Joad were the first who began farming on the land that Pa has lost. She is described as a very wise and kind woman, though sometimes her behavior seems to be strange, and we will describe it to you with…

  • Richard Phillotson

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    The schoolmaster of Marygreen, and young Jude Fawley’s role model. He never realizes his dream of getting a university degree and marries Sue Bridehead, twenty years his junior. He leaves his job as a schoolmaster in the small town where Jude lives to pursue his dreams of becoming a scholar in Christminster. As we discover,…

  • Cordelia

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    Cordelia, the youngest daughter of King Lear, embodies honesty and decency. She does not flatter her father, for which he condemns her to exile. But she does not cease to love and respect him. A striking manifestation of her compassion serves the tears with which she meets the news of the ruler’s illness. Unlike sisters,…

  • Widow Douglas and Miss Watson

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    We don’t know a lot about this character, but while reading, we feel sympathy for her. She takes Huck to her house, or in other words, under her wing and promises to make him more civilized, which was not exactly what he wanted, but it was a nice gesture. Miss Watson is Widow and Douglas’ sister; she…

  • The Hobbit Study Guide

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    The Hobbit Study Guide Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Original title: The Hobbit : or There and Back Again Published: Published August 15th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin (first published September 21st 1937) Setting: Middle-earth ISBN 0618260307 (ISBN13: 9780618260300) Not everybody knows that Tolkien first wrote “The Hobbit” and only then started working on the “Lord of the…

  • Doctor Faustus Study Guide

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    Doctor Faustus Study Guide Author: Thomas Mann Original title: Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde Characters: Mephistopheles, Helen of Troy, Pope Adrian Leverkühn, Lucifer, Doctor Faustus, Wagner, Chorus (by Goethe), Good Angel and Evil Angel, Robin, A Knight at Charles’ Court, Three Scholars “The Tragical History of Doctor…

  • James Taggart

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    James Taggart is a true friend of the novel, spending most of his time in planning intrigues and spreading dirty gossip. Of course, he does not call the masses for revolution and havoc of fundamentals. He unconsciously loses control of his emotions, denying the deeds committed. James is both a criminal and prey of his…

  • The evil that men do lives after Julius Caesar

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    The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; Quote Analysis This quote belongs to Mark Anthony, the character from Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare. We meet these words in Act 3, Scene 2 in his speech in front of the plebs. Caesar is dead, Brutus and Cassius assassination…

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray Essays

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This famous line clearly explains the varying perspectives that people have when it comes to the idea of beauty. Beauty is subjective as an individual might believe that something or someone is beautiful while another person might have the exact opposite… 2…

  • Mr. Norton

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     Mr. Norton is a rich man who boasts to be the white. Such a desperate behavior to be superior makes the reader think that Mr. Norton is highly liberal; moreover, he is counted as a philanthropic individual. As a result, he hides his true intentions.  While the narrator asks Mr. Norton for employment, the last…