Category: Study Guides

  • Mina Murray Harker

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    Her first name was Mina Murray, later she becomes Mina Harker. She is so clear and innocent that immediately becomes the reason of Dracula’s desires and lustful depravity. We know a lot about her, and she is a very dynamic character. She never knew her parents, and when she finds Jonathan, she feels like he…

  • A Passage to India Summary

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    A passage to India is an early 20th century novel by the critically acclaimed writer E.M. Foster. The novel is built around the monarchial British rule of the Indian subcontinent and India’s rise to independence. The book stays true to Foster’s own experiences in the country, so it holds quite a few points of interest…

  • Comedy of Errors Essays

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    Comedy of Errors Based on the theme of mistaken identity, The comedy of Errors is one of the earliest plays of William Shakespeare. A handful of classical elements are found in this play, which connects it to the Roman playwright Plautus’ comedies, especially to The Brothers Menaechmus. This paper is going… 1 489 words Comedy…

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Essays

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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The concept of time travel was not a subject new for fiction. However, it was quite a leap for the like of Mark Twain who has been writing about clear-cut fiction (To Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) before he wrote something purely out of fantasy. The Legend of King Arthur…

  • John Proctor

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    This is our hero, protagonist, the main character of the text. He isn’t a good person at all. He cheats on his wife; he can’t remember the main ten testaments (but he continues going to the church every Sunday). Also, he is the biggest stubborn person that you have ever seen being angry pretty much…

  • Short Stories

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    Jerome David Salinger is an American writer who is primarily known for his “The Catcher in the Rye” novel. The novel was primarily intended for the youth audience but is now popular among all age groups. Salinger’s books open to the readers a world of a naïve and delicate…

  • Virgilio

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    Virgilio is an ancient Greek poet. He becomes the conductor of Dante and will save him from the three predatory animals that personify the three human vices. It is sensuality, greed, and lust. In the comedy, Virgilio is personified as intelligence and wisdom that can save from these vices. To some extent, Virgilio is Dante,…

  • An Enemy of the People Study Guide

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    An Enemy of the People Study Guide Author: Henrik Ibsen Original title: En folkefiende The bitter and satirical play of Henrik Ibsen was, to the great extent, his answer to the reaction of the critics to his previous work, “Ghosts”. The play was named scandalous, because the author dared to discuss such problems as adultery…

  • Gaius Julius Caesar

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    Despite the fact that the tragedy is named after him, Julius Caesar is not the main character, but rather a spring of action. It is around him (initially alive, and even more so – dead, killed by Conspirators-Republicans) unfold all the events of the plot, as well as reveal the characters of the remaining characters.…

  • If music be the food of love, Twelfth Night

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    If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It Quote Analysis Act 1 Scene 1 line 1-3 This quote opens one of the most famous plays of William Shakespeare – “Twelfth Night” – in…