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  • Wuthering Heights Summary

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    The story starts in the cold winter of 1801 when the narrator named Lockwood decides to rent a manor with a poetic name Thrushcross Grange. The manor stands aside the major road in the middle of the moors and abandoned fields. The man who owns the manor, Heathcliff, lives nearby, in the mansion called Wuthering…

  • Aunt Drusilla

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    We doesn’t know a lot of useful, or at least any other information about this character. She doesn’t have a big role or impact. But still, she is Jude’s elderly great-aunt, who works as a baker in Marygreen. She is a fiercely devout evangelical who raises him indifferently after Jude’s father dies. So, we can…

  • Offred

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    The narrator is a female character who actually doesn’t have a name at all. She is once called as Offred, but she immediately discards that name, saying that she has another one which is forbidden to tell everyone. One of the reasons why she is left nameless is that she represents each woman who experiences…

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Summary

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a tragicomedy play about two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are courtiers and childhood friends of Hamlet’s. In this absurdist play, they are confused by what is going on, given that they only experience snippets of stage time on Hamlet and they don’t have much to…

  • Captain John Yossarian

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    He is the protagonist of the novel. At first, he appears as a bored joker, who censors the letters of soldiers and signs as Washington Irving, or as Irving Washington sometimes. Then we learn that he starts to be afraid of the flights and tries to get an exemption from combat sorties by all possible…

  • Joseph

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    Joseph is a servant of Heathcliff. He served at Earnshoe and Heathcliffe. He is confused, pious and silly. Joseph is an old, hypocritical, pious, rough and hard-headed servant. He served when Katie and Hindley Earnshoe were children and stayed with Heathcliffe, and then at Harton. Homemakers constantly suffer from his sermons and accusations of aiding…

  • A Raisin in the Sun Essays

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    A Raisin in the Sun In A Raisin In The Sun an interesting story of a family’s ups and downs unfolds in a small apartment. This book by Lorraine Hansberry illustrates how a family’s dreams can dry up just like a raisin in the sun. The family, the Youngers are a family of five living…

  • John Wilson

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    John Wilson doesn’t have many lines in a book. But we will tell you at least that information which we know. He is the eldest clergyman in Boston, a great scholar, a friend of Arthur Dimmesdale, and like most of the people in this profession, and he is a man of kind and genial spirit.…

  • The Natural Summary

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    The story opens with the main character named Roy Hobbes, a baseball player, who is in the train travelling to Chicago. He is in the same car with his manager Sam, who has just negotiated Roy’s participating in the team of Chicago Cubs. The author describes the other passengers of the train car: among them…

  • Richard II Study Guide

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    Richard II Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedie of King Richard the Second Richard II by William Shakespeare is a historical drama, the first one in the epic tetralogy that is called Henriade by some researches. It tells us the tragic story of the aforementioned King Richard II, from the pinnacle of…