Category: Study Guides

  • The Contender Study Guide

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    The Contender Study Guide Author: Robert Lipsyte Original title: The Contender The Contender is a debut novel by Robert Lipsyte that tells us the story of a black young man who lives in Harlem with his aunt and cousins. His harsh life is urging him to take the easiest way of criminal life and becoming…

  • Chaplain

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    As this character appears at the end, we can’t tell you a lot of information about him. Well, he is kind of a saint and kind priest who visits Meursault in prison after he is sentenced to death. He cares about his soul, and that is why he tries to make Meursault admit a faith…

  • Antigone Study Guide

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    Antigone Study Guide Author: Sophocles Original title: Ἀντιγόνη Characters: Teiresias, Creon, Antigone, Ismene, Chorus Published: December 1st 2005 by Ingram (first published -441) ISBN 1580493882 (ISBN13: 9781580493888) Antigone is an eternal work of art that transcends time, literary style, authorship, and taste. It’s one of the signature Sophocles plays tightly intermingled with Oedipus and Colonus.…

  • Uncle Tom

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    He is a very old slave and the protagonist of the novel. His two dominative qualities are his inherent goodness and godliness. He is a passive Christ-figure. He always forgives people who do bad things to him and turns to God in times of crisis. After learning to read the Bible and write letters to…

  • Ulysses Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what life is after all. Ulysses 3 If we were all suddenly somebody else. Ulysses 3 Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance. Ulysses 3 Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody’s body. Ulysses 3 God! … Isn’t the…

  • Dido

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    Dido or Elissa is the name of the legendary founder of Carthage, daughter of the king of Tyre. After a terrible storm, the ship Aeneas (a widower who lost his wife in burning Troy) approaches the shores of Africa ruled by Dido (who also lost her husband and who did not know family happiness but…

  • A Man for All Seasons Summary

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    A Man For All Seasons is a play written by Robert Bolt about the life story of Sir Thomas More from the 16th century. Bolt portrays More, the protagonist of the play, as an individual who gave his life up only because he was true to his own commitment to his conscience. He would not…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?””For the liveliness of your mind, I did. Pride and Prejudice 295 One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Pride and Prejudice 294 I might as well enquire, replied she, why with so evident a design of…

  • Jim Trueblood

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    Jim Trueblood appears as a complex character with the ambiguous perception of his true self. Firstly, a reader finds out that he is illiterate, ignorant man who commits incest with his daughter. However, this impression is not of the utmost importance for the reader in terms of the essence of the story. Trueblood is the…

  • Fathers and Sons Essays

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    Book Report on “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev “Fathers and Sons” is, perhaps, the most interesting book by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, which gained international recognition. It has been first published in 1862 and concurred with a complicated period of Russian history, known as the “Great Reforms”. Abolition of serfdom, reforms of… 1…