Category: Study Guides

  • Chorus (by Goethe)

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    Chorus embodies the central tool for depicting feelings and plot dynamics. Its usage dates back to the ancient Greek drama, of which Goethe was an admirer. The chorus is a voice that distinguishes from the author’s intonations and voices of a bystander. It is more objective in own judgments than the viewer or personages. It…

  • The Secret Sharer Study Guide

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    The Secret Sharer Study Guide Author: Joseph Conrad Original title: The Secret Sharer The Secret Sharer is the short story by Joseph Conrad that is considered a true masterpiece of the genre. On its pages the author presents his audience the tension of the adventure novel, the mystic secret of a Gothic novel and the…

  • Cora Tull

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    The wife of Vernon Tull. She is a religious lady and wishes her husband would pay more attention to God. She is the one who tells the reader all about Addie’s affair with minister Whitfield and she is in no way neutral in her evaluations of the situation. She spends the last hours of Addie’s…

  • Janine

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    Janine is an ordinary Housemaid who is a bit luckier than all the other girls in the house of Gilead. She gave birth to a baby. Therefore, other women are envious. The narrator knows her since being at the Red Centre. It is soon revealed that Janine’s baby is transformed to the “Unbaby,” and it…

  • Volpone Summary

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    Volpone is a story of one day from life of aforementioned Volpone – a nobleman living in seventeenth-century Venice and a con artist. The play starts at his house when he leads his “parasite” Mosca (who may be a slave or a servant or a mix of both) to the secret room in the house,…

  • Of Mice and Men Summary

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    We meet our heroes, George and Lenny, somewhere in California, on a hot afternoon. It’s 1930s, the years of the Dust Bowl that thrown people to the bottom of poverty. Lennie Small and George Milton are friends on their way to rancho, where some work for them was promised. George, small and sharp-minded, had already…

  • The office manager

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    The office manager is the chief clerk at Gregor’s office. Trustworthy and powerful, he hints at the fact that Gregor works poorly. He has come to see why Gregor missed the early train. The Samsa family and the office manager are aghast when they see Gregor’s new form, but Gregor continues to attempt to defend…

  • The Once and Future King Essays

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    The Once and Future King “There is nothing,” said the monarch, “except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest, power to seek and power to find, power to await and power to claim, all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck.” … “Love is a…

  • King Lear Study Guide

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    King Lear Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedie of King Lear Characters: Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, King Lear Published: Published 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1603) ISBN 074348276X (ISBN13: 9780743482769) A magnificent tragedy “King Lear”…

  • Fahrenheit 451 Essays

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    Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury, is a story about a society where the government controls the thoughts, and actions of the citizens. Bradbury’s futuristic society has no past and is completely empty. The works and knowledge created in the centuries before, banished and burned. His world contains… 1 658 words Ray…