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  • Lord Marmion

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    Lord Marmion is a central figure of Sir Walter Scott’s poem Marmion. He is the bravest, the kindest, and the best English nobleman. He is valiant, who had won numerous fights. His reputation is simply excellent. Once, as king’s person of trust, he is sent to the Scots. Marmion’s mission is to persuade them to…

  • The Glass Menagerie Essays

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    The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. This is one of his earliest play that most recognized and arguably the most autobiographical. It is one of the greatest plays of American literature. It recounts the story of a small struggling family in St. Louis, MO, during the great… 597 words…

  • The Giver Summary

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    The Giver is a kids book, but still it is a dystopia, a warning about our possible and close future. The book is terrifying not because of blood and violence but of the very society depicted in it. All the aspirations of modern people are reached but in a warped way. There are no pain,…

  • The Last of the Mohicans Essays

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    Last of the Mohicans The story of the Last Mohicans is about war stories, adventure, frontier romance, pioneer life and racism. The novel is a historical fiction that takes place during the third year of the Indian and French war in 1755-1763. Indians play a very significant role in Indian and French since some of……

  • David Copperfield Essays

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    David Copperfield David Copperfield is regarded as one of Charles Dickens’s best novels (Long 495). In his life he completed fourteen novels, and an unknown number of essays, short stories, and sketches. During his day, he appealed to all levels of society, but especially the growing middle class of England (Magill… 1 288 words David…

  • The elder Madame Bovary

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    This woman is a typical mother. Charles is his son, and she does everything to help him. She doesn’t want him to become a doctor, to marry Emma, as she sees her insincerity and dishonesty. Also, she loses a battle with Charles when she was trying to force him to control Emma’s money. She has…

  • A Modest Proposal Study Guide

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    A Modest Proposal Study Guide Author: Jonathan Swift Original title: A Modest Proposal Characters: The Proposer, George Psalmanazar, The Pretender, The American, A Very Worthy Person In 1729 Jonathan Swift published his work that carried an immensely long title but has become known under “A Modest Proposal” name. The book is a major social text…

  • Don Quixote de la Mancha

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    From the beginning of the story, we hear that he is a gentleman from the village with that amount of money to stop working forever. He likes reading books, especially adventurous ones. Then we got that he, after reading that amount of adventure books exhausted his mind and became a little bit crazy. That’s why…

  • Phaedra Essays

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    Racine’s Phaedra Introduction Phaedra, a tragic play created and popularized by Jean B. Racine is an account of the possible pros, cons, and eminent ills or frailty experienced by love-stricken people depicting their own strength and weaknesses. The play implicitly showed different types of love that are prevalent… 337 words The Diagnoses of Phaedra in…

  • George Milton

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    George is a man with analytical thinking; he is witty and clever. George travels with his old friend Lennie who has a mental disease. Both of them are dreaming of finding an idyllic farm where they feel free. Although George is sometimes angry at Lennie, he is a devoted and caring friend. George understands that…