Category: Study Guides

  • Mother (Vivien Baxter)

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    Baxter is a mother of Maya. If we compare Vivien with her mother, they are cheese and chalk. Vivien is a short woman with light hair, and her mother is completely the opposite. Despite the fact that she is very educated, Vivien spends a lot of time joking, smoking, dancing in different clubs and hanging…

  • Julius Caesar Study Guide

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    Julius Caesar Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Characters: Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Calpurnia, Gaius Julius Caesar The tragedy by William Shakespeare isn’t his most famous work, but definitely worth discovering. Only after having read “Julius Caesar” can the reader truly ponder upon author’s words of wisdom. This work…

  • 1984 Essays

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    1984 Written by George Orwell In the book “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” written by George Orwell, readers are introduced to a dystopia, where the Party controls everything that people can do, such as thoughts, language, behavior and media. In the grim world of “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the government even wants to control the thoughts… 587 words 1984 and…

  • The Duke and the Dauphin

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    Of course, these aren’t real duke and Dauphin. But of these two characters, the Dauphin is the worst. In the premiere part, the duke steals a measly nine bucks— which wasn’t even enough for a pizza. The king, on the other hand, pretends to be a preacher to steal a whole $80. Not too cool,…

  • Medea Essays

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    Medea as an Aristotelian Tragedy In Euripides’ play, Medea, the title character progresses from distraught and slighted wife to inhuman Fury, the slayer of her own sons and the cause of her husband Jason’s downfall. Euripides delivers a woman’s existence filled with great passion, betrayal, disappointment and tragedy, and while… 1 977 words Narcissistic Self-Defense…

  • The House of Mirth Essays

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    The House of Mirth 1. Lily Bart is simultaneously a product and a victim of the society she was born into. She cannot choose between two possible ways of living: to hunt for wealth or long for love and understanding. She was taught that her goal of life was to find a wealthy man and…

  • William of Baskerville

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    William of Baskerville is the protagonist of the novel Umberto Eco “The Name of the Rose,” a fictional Franciscan monk. William came from England. He was studying at the Oxford and the University of Paris. To be more exact, William studied under the scientist and philosopher Roger Bacon. Like Bacon, he is a supporter of…

  • Childhood’s End Essays

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    “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke This book is like many others before it as it is a forerunner of events and times that had yet to happen at the time of its publication. In that respect, it can be classified with Jules Verne’s’ novels but while the Nautilus, the nuclear submarine of 20,000 Leagues…

  • Reverend Homer A. Barbee

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    A man from Chicago who is highly religious since he covers the occupation of a preacher is Reverend Homer A. Barbee. The reader gets acquainted with this character due to the fact that he visits the protagonist in the college. He is described to be an impassionate speaker. The reader may find out that the…

  • Grendel

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    A man-eating demon that lived in the land of the Spear-Danes. His main aim in life was attacked King Hrothgar’s mead-hall, Heorot every evening. The narrator of the text said that demon’s motivation is hearing Hrothgar’s bard singing songs about topics like, the God who created the world, and this affected to the demonic inner…