Category: Study Guides
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If you don’t know where you are Alice in Wonderland
If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there. Quote Analysis This quote belongs to the Cheshire Cat, a character from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. He says it in Chapter 6 during the intriguing conversation with Alice. Alice is exhausted after all the size changes…
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The Aeneid Study Guide
The Aeneid Study Guide Author: Virgil Original title: Æneis Characters: Aeneas, Juno, Turnus, Dido, Virgil Published: June 16th 1990 by Vintage (first published -19) Setting: Troy, Carthage, Sicily (Italy), Roma (Italy) ISBN 0679729526 (ISBN13: 9780679729525) Together with comedies of Aristophanes and tragedies written by Sophocles, “The Aeneid” by Virgil is a pearl of Antique literature…
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Martin
This guy is a very interesting one. Being a very cynical character, he becomes Candide’s friend as a travel companion. Martin suffered from different things in his life. He is also shown as a philosopher. Also, predictably, he can’t be the same optimist as Candide and Pangloss. He is shown in the text more like…
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Leaves of Grass Summary
Walt Whitman, who later became known as American bard and since is forever a part of the world classical literature, was born in West Hills, Long Island in New York on 31rd of May, 1819. His family were immigrants – his mother Louisa came from Holland and his father Walter, after whom Whitman Jr. was…
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A Room of One’s Own Study Guide
A Room of One’s Own Study Guide Author: Virginia Woolf Original title: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf was an English writer and literary critic. She was the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the 20th century. Her works became the classics of the “flow of consciousness.” And her…
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Summary
The novel begins with the narration of a girl named Karana. She is twelve years old, and she lives with her family in an island village named Ghalas-at. Her family of six consists of her six year old brother Ramo, Ulape her elder sister and her father Chowig, who is also Ghalas-at’s chief. The story…
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The Mayor of Casterbridge Essays
The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge, written by Thomas Hardy, is a masterpiece with the immortal Michael Henchard as the lead character, who is arguably the greatest creation of Thomas Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a human tragedy which gives a deep moral message regarding the evil consequences of… 1 808 words…
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Walden Essays
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Considering that Henry David Thoreau’s non fiction book, Walden was first published in 1854, it is somewhat surprising to discover that the 154-year gap is really not that extensive to expect change in our society. Change here is referred to the world and people’s priorities and state of living… 418 words…
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Twelve Years a Slave Study Guide
Twelve Years a Slave Study Guide Author: Solomon Northup Original title: Twelve Years a Slave Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir he tried to write as precisely as possible. This book contains no morals like in “Uncle Toms Cabin” and no epiphany. The goal of Northup was to describe the institute…
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Siddhartha Summary
The main character of the story is a young brahman (a member of the upper Indian caste) named Siddhardha. He is raised in wealth and love but still feels he lacks something inside of him. Siddhartha and his best friend Govinda decide to go for a quest for Atman. Atman is something incomprehensible, the sense…