Category: Study Guides

  • Julius Caesar Summary

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    This play is a Shakespearean tragedy based on historical events, most probably written in 1599. Although named after Julius Caesar, it mostly centers around the inner life of Brutus, his killer, and his thoughts, feelings and internal conflicts.  Mureullus and Flavious, two tribunes (or elected officials), cross paths with dozens of Romans gallivanting in the…

  • Candide

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    This guy is the main character and the protagonist of the book. He is kind, good-hearted man, but also he seems to be naive. Perhaps, exactly because of his kindness and loyal attitude to the world the second part of the original name is “Optimism.” Anyway, in this text, Candide, being the pupil of Pangloss,…

  • The Bell Jar Study Guide

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    The Bell Jar Study Guide Author: Sylvia Plath Original title: The Bell Jar Published: Published 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published January 1963) Setting: Boston, Massachusetts,1953(United States) New York City, New York,1953(United States) ISBN 0061148512 (ISBN13: 9780061148514) Sylvia Plath wrote only one novel and it was enough for her to make a name…

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold Study Guide

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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold Study Guide Author: Gabriel García Márquez Original title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada Characters: Santiago Nasar, Ángela Vicario, Bayardo San Román, Pedro Vicario, The Narrator (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), Pablo Vicario, The Visiting Magistrate The legendary Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” in 1981. It is…

  • Jan Coggan

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    Jan Coggan is a minor character of the novel. He is an honest worker from Weatherbury. He was a crimson man with a spacious face. Coggan loves to tell different amazing stories about his relatives. He is characterized as a kind and generous man. Jan tries to help Gabriel in several cases. He offers Gabriel…

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Study Guide

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Study Guide Author: Tom Stoppard Original title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Published: Published January 21st 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1966) ISBN 0802132758 (ISBN13: 9780802132758) Tom Stoppard wrote what is often considered an absurdist book entitled “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”. This tragicomedy was first staged in Edinburgh…

  • A Wrinkle in Time Study Guide

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    A Wrinkle in Time Study Guide Author: Madeleine L’Engle Original title: A Wrinkle in Time Characters: Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O’Keefe, Dr. Kate Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, Mr. Alex Murry, The Happy Medium, Aunt Beast, The Man with the Red Eyes, IT Madeleine L’Engle wrote “A Wrinkle in Time” in…

  • Policemen

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    There were three of them. And to be honest, they don’t have influential characteristics. Yes, anyway, they play a role in the narrator’s story because without them nothing will happen, no culmination will happen in the story. They are conscientious and responsible. They didn’t waste time after the murder and started immediately searching the killer.…

  • The Awakening Summary

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    The Awakening tells the readers a story of Edna Pontellier, the woman who discovered in herself the desire to belong to herself only, so strong and mature that, at her time, it was considered illness.   The story starts in 1890s, Louisiana. Edna is a wife of a rich and educated man Léonce. She goes…

  • The Good Earth Study Guide

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    The Good Earth Study Guide Author: Pearl S. Buck Original title: The Good Earth The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was a bestseller of its time and played a prominent part in getting its author the Nobel Prize for literature. A family drama set in China before the World War I, this book showed…