Category: Study Guides
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Scout Finch
Scout is the protagonist of the story. She is also the narrator who describes the events from her point of view. Scout is smart and witty. She sometimes behaves in a boyish manner because Scout likes fighting with boys confidently. The reason for being a tomboy is the Atticus’ upbringing. He was the one who…
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King Lear Act 3 Analysis
Main events of the act 3: Wandering around in the storm King Lear expresses his pain and desperation; Kent finds Lear and takes him to find shelter in a hovel; Kent sends notice to Cordelia that her father needs help; The French army is already on British land; In the hovel, King Lear meets Edgar…
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Septimus Warren Smith
An ex-soldier who is shell-shocked and insane. Often considered Clarissa’s doppelganger, Septimus was a successful, intelligent, literary young man before World War I. He is described as the first person who isn’t scared to talk about the war, about the truth of everything, and how it was to be in one step from death. There…
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Mrs. Bowles
A woman of her time, Mrs. Bowles is too busy watching television and wasting time on idle conversations. This helps her to distract herself from despair and melancholy she constantly feels. The relationships between Mrs. Bowles and the rest of the family member are disturbing. Her children feel nothing but hatred towards their mother. After…
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Black Boy Summary
Black Boy is a non-fiction autobiographical piece of work that not only reflects on the treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South during the 1920s, but also remains a potent example of the average dysfunctional lifestyle of most American households during the Great Depression. Although the tone of the piece is that of the grown…
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Claudius
The present king of Denmark, Claudius, had gained his crown and wife by murdering his own brother. Worse still, it was poisoning, a cowardly and treacherous way of dealing somebody out. Thus, the method itself characterizes Claudius as a craven villain, good at plotting and scheming. It seems that Shakespeare loathed this character just a…
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All the Pretty Horses Essays
All the Pretty Horses The main protagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel ‘All the Pretty Horses’ is John Gardy. The story is set in the backdrop of western American culture till 20th century. Through this novel McCarthy depicts the role of horses as an important theme in an ideal world as the economic and practical… 864…
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Joseph Andrews Summary
Joseph Andrews is a young and good-looking footman who works for Sir Thomas Booby. Lady Booby, the wife of his employer, is attracted to him sexually and starts to show him her affection. The other person who is interested in Joseph, though in more spiritual sense, is Mr. Abraham Adams who sees the great potential…
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Telemachus
He is a son of Odysseus. Telemachus is a brave boy who had his own “odyssey”. He is persistent and goes above and beyond in order to rich his goals. In the poem readers observe the trip when Telemachus travels to different mysterious places. The aim of this small “odyssey” is to find his father.…
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The Raven Essays
The Raven The poem of Edgar Allen Poe entitled “The Raven” is a beautiful poem that tries to vividly describe the depths of melancholic emotion that is part and parcel of human experience although there may be some less blessed mortal, in a remote possibility, that would never go through such inner turmoil… 1 189…