Category: Study Guides
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Laertes
The son of Polonius and a little too loving elder brother of Ophelia, Laertes undergoes an impressive evolution in course of the play. At the beginning, he is just another young courtier, studying (and debauching, for sure) in France. He arrives to Denmark only to attend the coronation of the new king, and promptly leaves…
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Frank and Joe
These two men are working on Mr Donner’s bakery where Charlie works too. They are ordinary people who don’t take Gordon seriously. When it is possible, they laugh at Charlie, have fun, but he cannot understand that they use him as the butt of all jokes. He thinks that it is how friendship works, and…
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Emma Essays
Literary Analysis Of Emma By Jane Austen In Jane Austen’s novel, Emma, protagonist Emma avoids her own transformation by her attempts to transform others. However, Emma experiences her coming-of-age through the stable characters of those around her. Austen reveals how self-transformation is necessary in maturing and establishing… 1 669 words Emma Book Report Emma, authored…
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Slaughterhouse-Five Study Guide
Slaughterhouse-Five Study Guide Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Original title: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death Characters: Billy Pilgrim, Roland Weary, Edgar Derby, Robert Pilgrim, Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut , Bernard O’Hare, Mary O’Hare , Paul Lazarro Published: January 12th 1999 by Dial Press (first published 1969) Setting: Dresden, 1945 (Germany)…
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The Raven Study Guide
The Raven Study Guide Author: Edgar Allan Poe Original title: The Raven Characters: The Narrator (The Raven), Lenore, The Raven Published: Published April 25th 1996 by Dover Publications (first published 1844) ISBN 0486290727 (ISBN13: 9780486290720) Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1845. It is cited and recognized for many reasons, including its style, melodically…
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Ulysses Essays
Ulysses by James Joyce Introduction In James Joyce’s Ulysses readers encounter Stephen Dedalus’s search for identity – a search which will be present through the entire narrative. At the heart of Ulysses is Stephen’s relationship with his mother. Stephen describes both the real mother who reared him and is now dead and… 2 068 words…
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Main Street Summary
Carol Milford is the woman who can be called an ambitious feminist in the modern times – but in her times she is seen as extremely eccentric. She is beautiful, intelligent and educated, finishing her college with the sincere dream to change the world for good. She starts her career as a librarian at St.…
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Sarah
The servant of the Weylin family, who accepts slave part in order to guarantee the safety of her unable to hear, speechless daughter Carrie. So they become friends, and Dana uncovers to respect Sarah’s capacity and persecution. Octavia Butler adopts Sarah to accept the “mammy” example of a slave who was evolved too close to…
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Animal Farm Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Animal Farm/V for Vendetta _Cross-Comparative text study_ V for Vendetta – Animal Farm In many great texts concerning the politics, it can be observed that the context in which the piece was created greatly influences the ways in which values and themes are presented and the form in which it is produced. Major ground… 2…
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste;Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. Quote Analysis This quote is said by Helena – one of the characters of…
