Category: Study Guides

  • Anna Karenina Essays

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    Anna Karenina Introduction In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, the author explores both the viability and the perceived importance of the institution of marriage in the rapidly transforming society of nineteenth century Russia. Tolstoy was acutely aware of the dramatic shifts taking place in Russian society in… 3 143 words Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life…

  • Perhaps one did not want to be 1984

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    Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Quote Analysis We have this quote at page 318 of “1984” by George Orwell. This is the part of mind control tortures that O’Brien applies to Winston. Winston suffered a terrible pain interrupted by the single question – how many fingers…

  • Hiroshima Study Guide

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    Hiroshima Study Guide Author: John Hersey Original title: Hiroshima This novel by John Hersey tells us the six stories of the rare survivors of Hiroshima bombardment. They are different people, not connected to each other by anything except the mere fact that they were the luckiest people who managed to survive the atomic explosion. They…

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Study Guide

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Study Guide Author: James Joyce Original title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Characters: Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Mary Dedalus, Charles Stewart Parnell, Emma Clery, Mr. John Casey Published: Published March 25th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1916) Setting:…

  • Frankenstein Study Guide

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    Frankenstein Study Guide Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Original title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Characters: Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Lavenza, William Frankenstein, Robert Walton, Henry Clerval, The monster, Alphonse Frankenstein Published: Published 2003 by Penguin (first published January 1st 1818) Setting: Geneva(Switzerland) Ingolstadt(Germany) Orkney Islands, Scotland(United Kingdom) …more Ireland Switzerland …less ISBN 0141439475 (ISBN13: 9780141439471) Many…

  • Raymond Sintès

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    Raymond has a nice reputation in the city. As well as Meursault he lives in the same building. He makes friends with him because the last is capable of listening and giving advice. Exactly after his advice, Raymond get back to his cheating girlfriend. Later a little, no, a very bid problem appear. Once, Raymond…

  • Big Brother is Watching You. 1984

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    Big Brother is Watching You. Quote Analysis The well-known motto of the dystopian country Orwell describes in his work have grown above the book and now embodies the tyrannic oppression and paranoid watch over someone. We see it from the very first pages and later we understand that these are not just words. Big Brother…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 12 | Just Great DataBase

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    I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing. Pride and Prejudice 1 Some people call him proud but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy,…

  • Romance

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    Jane Austen is a British writer, who is often referred to as the woman who has shaped the way modern novels look like. She was the one to introduce ordinary life of regular people into her books. Despite the fact that Austen works were widely read and positively acclaimed during her lifetime…

  • Olivia

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    Olivia is a quite emotional heroine. She could be called a female incarnation of Count Orsino. After her brother’s death, she promises to renounce all earthly things and go to the monastery for seven years. If Viola enchants with her cheerfulness, then Olivia strikes her melancholy. This explains a sympathy that she senses towards Cesario…