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  • Lucretia Auld

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    The reader knows her as a daughter of Captain Anthony. The author compares her with an angel that protects people and gives a shelter for everybody. After her father’s death, Lucretia inherited his estate. The woman had a daughter Amanda with whom Douglass became good friends. Mrs. Auld is considered as a protagonist as her…

  • Dubliners Study Guide

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    Dubliners Study Guide Author: James Joyce Original title: Dubliners Published: Published March 15th 2001 by Oxford University Press (first published 1914) Setting: Dublin(Ireland) Ireland ISBN 0192839993 (ISBN13: 9780192839992) Those of you who think that reading James Joyce is a challenging endeavor should start with his early works, like “The Dubliners”. This collection of short stories…

  • John

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    John is the central character of the novel. He is very dynamic and active. John was born by the natural way, from human parents, not using artificial way. He is the black sheep of the society, his feeling is more genuine, and his perception of the world differs from that dictated by the regime. He…

  • Mrs. Miller

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    The Incarnation of a poor mother who gave up parental rights over her children. Daisy and Randolph flee to Europe and do nothing to stop their excesses. She even encourages her daughter to go to Chillon Castle with Winterbourne. Even at the end of the story he remains forgotten; her daughter is dying, and her…

  • Frankenstein Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Frankenstein’s ambition ?Topic #3 Victor’s driving, obsessive ambition ruined his life and led to his own death and the murder of his loved ones. Illustrate how ambition affects not only Victor and Robert Walton, but also the creature in Frankenstein. Thesis Statement: Ambition and the quest for knowledge is a fatal flaw… 885 words Frankenstein…

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being Summary

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    The Unbearable lightness of Being, written by Milan Kundera, is a novel where Kundera argues over the concept of lightness and heaviness of human lives. The core of this novel follows a pattern that reads between the lives of humans. It also analyses the probability of how and what events could be changed in one’s…

  • Stella Kowalski

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    Stella is a graceful young woman of about twenty-five; younger sister Blanche; Neither by birth nor by upbringing she is not a couple to her husband. But at the same time, passionately loving Stanley. Describing her relationship with him, she says: “I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night…” The younger…

  • Jude Fawley

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    In the beginning, Jude’s tale has the makings of a real rags-to-riches story. Jude is a classic small-town kid with big dreams, and he has the drive to achieve what he wants. It is no accident that at one point Sue compares him to two of the biggest dreamers ever, Joseph of Biblical and musical…

  • Miep Gies

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    Miep Gies works as a secretary, and when she finds the diary written by a young lady, she hides it in the desk drawer. Also, she helps the family of Franks to hide. Gies has not read the diary but kept it in safety. When Otto returns in 1945 after the war, she gives him…

  • Absalom, Absalom! Study Guide

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    Absalom, Absalom! Study Guide Author: William Faulkner Original title: Absalom, Absalom! Characters: Quentin Compson III “Absalom, Absalom” is a story of a single man, Thomas Sutpen, the local hero, told by several different people who knew him. The novel is quite difficult to read, because of the absence of any chronological order and the controversial…