Category: Study Guides
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Madame Bovary Essays
A Critical Analysis of Madame Bovary The character of Madame Bovary consists of many different components. At first Emma Bovary seems content and unassuming. She doesn’t question anything done, and is very easy to please. As the first nine chapters progress, Emma grows uneasy and upset. She stops taking care of her house and home……
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Pedro Vicario
Pedro and Pablo are twins and brothers to Angela. Being twins makes them similar, but there are differences between two of them anyway. Pedro is younger for several minutes as the narrator states. He also claims that if to compare two brothers, Pedro is more sensitive one and has a kind heart. However, he is…
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Aegisthus
Aegisthus is the son of Fiesta and his daughter Pelopia. Aegisthus killed Atreus and, together with his father Fiesta, took possession of the Mycenaean kingdom. When Agamemnon was under Troy, Aegisthus tempted his wife, Clytemnestra. When Agamemnon returned back, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra killed him. Then he married Clytemnestra and quiet reigned in Mycenae for seven…
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Great Expectations Essays
Great Expectations Great Expectations, a novel by Charles Dickens, was first published in England as a serial in the years 1860 and 61 then later as a novel. It runs to 448 pages in modern paperback. The work is considered to be autobiographical and told in first person as a memoir of the orphan boy,…
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Reverend Moses Ambrose
Reverend Moses Ambrose is a strong believer and a person who is strongly devoted to religion. It is the main problem why there is always arguing between Reverend and Grant. Grant is a radical nonbeliever, and these both always have the theme to argue about. Grant blames Reverend in the blindness, claiming that he is…
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A Rose for Emily Summary
A Rose for Emily is a short story written by American author William Faulkner and published for the first time in an American magazine on the 30th of April 1930. The author depicts the story of a woman who has gone through a great tragedy and the writer pities her by handing her a rose.…
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Grandma Smith
She is the mother of Rose Walls and Jim. She is a tall, strict and broad-shouldered woman with green eyes and a strong chin. She became a teacher because she didn’t trust anyone else to educate her children. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in a town called Yampi. Grandma Smith had strong opinions about…
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Charles Tansley
Charles Tansey is a young man, having an exciting personality. He is a philosopher and a pupil of Mr. Ramsay. The Ramsay family invited him to the house for summer. As the author endeavors to depict various types of personalities in society, he is a desperate atheist. Charles is very rude and insulting. He constantly…
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Andrés
One of Pablo’s band Guerilla fighters. The man is in his late twenties. He has earned the reputation of who have enjoyed participating in the fiesta “Bulldog of Villaconejos” that takes place each year at his hometown. Talking about the mission, Andrés is a happy fellow selected by Robert Jordan as one who should carry…
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Beloved Summary
The story starts in the house at 124, Bluestone road in Cincinnati and this house is haunted. A ghost of a child keeps terrorizing all the inhabitants of the house – Sethe, a black woman who was formerly a slave, her daughter Denwer and her mother-in-law Baby Suggs. Sethe’s husband died and her two elder…
