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  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 19 | Just Great DataBase

    Indeed, Mr. Bennet,” said she, “it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her take her place in it!” “My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for…

  • Black Like Me Essays

    A review on John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me Summary A middle-aged white man from Mansfield Texas named John Howard Griffin is the main character and author of Black like Me. He was a man deeply committed to the cause of ending racial discrimination. In 1959, Griffin decided to take a pertinently extreme measure just…

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    Books–oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.””I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions. Pride and Prejudice 69 I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my…

  • Macbeth, King of Scots

    Macbeth is a Scottish general, and he is also the Thane of Glamis. He is a very courageous and authoritative soldier, but he has dirty thoughts in his head. One of these thoughts was the killing of the king, in order to occupy his place of honor. His wife thirsts for dominion constantly prompting him…

  • Atlas Shrugged Study Guide

    Atlas Shrugged Study Guide Author: Ayn Rand Original title: Atlas Shrugged Characters: Dagny Taggart, John Galt, Hank Rearden, Francisco d’Anconia, James Taggart, Ragnar Danneskjöld, Lillian Rearden “Atlas Shrugged” is a multidimensional novel written by Ayn Rand in 1957. Even though it wasn’t an immediate success, the author considered it her greatest work. She has invested…

  • Persuasion Study Guide

    Persuasion Study Guide Author: Jane Austen Original title: Persuasion Published: Published March 18th 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published December 1817) Setting: Somersetshire, England(United Kingdom) Lyme Regis, England(United Kingdom) Bath, Somerset, England ISBN 0192802631 (ISBN13: 9780192802637) Persuasion is worth reading not just because it is the last creation of a legendary Jane Austen. Most…

  • Romeo Montague

    He is indifferent to the enmity between the families of Montague and Capulet. He is quick-tempered, amorous, passionate, and at the same time a noble and just young man. He is almost twenty years old, and feelings are constantly boiling in his heart. When he passionately fell in love with Juliet, he gradually began to…

  • Boy

    This particular character that is left unnamed by the author comes into sight in only two times. The audience witnesses the time he comes out only closer to the resolution of the first Act, and in the middle of the final part. The unpleasant news he brings to the waiting and hoping the main characters…

  • The Prioress

    In Jeffrey Chaucer’s poem, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer tells people about the church and describes them as people who are not the only incarnation of people who have sworn to God and lived by four vows that the church requires to refrain from this. The abbess, the nun, is no exception, but Chaucer does not…

  • Idek

    Idek is in charge of Eliezer’s work unit at Buna. He has the reputation of occasionally going crazy, but the unit he’s in charge of is considered a good one to work in because the labor is light. Once, when Idek gets in one of his crazy moods, he beats Eliezer for no reason. Later,…