Category: Study Guides

  • The Remains of the Day Study Guide

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    The Remains of the Day Study Guide Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Original title: The Remains of the Day “The Remains of the Day” is a novel of the British writer of Japanese origin, Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989. “The Remains of the Day” is called the most English novel of the end of the 20th century.…

  • All the King’s Men Study Guide

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    All the King’s Men Study Guide Author: Robert Penn Warren Original title: All the King’s Men Despite the name of the novel is taken from the nursery rhyme, the plotline is dramatic and full of tragic events. The name has a lot to deal with the narrative – the book tells us about the life…

  • These violent delights have violent endsAnd in Romeo and Juliet

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    These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Quote Analysis This quote belongs to the priest, Friar Lawrence,…

  • Emily Shelby

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    She is also a typical lady of that times. As she wasn’t very important, we as well can’t say a lot about her. She wants to seem like she is very kind-hearted and moral. She tried to make only a moral influence on her slaves. But at the situation when her husband refuses to sell…

  • The Little Prince Summary

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    The Little Prince (Le Petite Prince) is a novella written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943. The story begins with the narrator’s speech who complains about the adults that can never understand the way a child perceives the world. When he was a little boy, a story about boa constrictor that swallows his prey in…

  • Oberon

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    Oberon is the crowned representative of the magical world. His presence tells us that the play should end happily. He sincerely sympathizes with all lovers, whose feelings were cruelly deceived. Oberon embodies some good spirit of family well-being, but he can show his “dark” qualities. A striking proof of this is the episode with Titania.…

  • Mademoiselle Reisz

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    Mademoiselle Reisz is probably the most awesome character as exactly she helps Edna to show up. She doesn’t have family, children and so one. The only thing she cares is music. And she is devoted to it very much. Exactly she is the person who appeared in the right time to save Edna; she shows…

  • Unferth

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    One of Hrothgar’s top retainers, Unferth insulted Beowulf after dipping too deeply into the mead-bowl at the premiere banquet. He later lent Beowulf a sword for a crucial battle. Of course, the sword didn’t work on the demon, but Unferth didn’t get that it would happen. Unferth is an example of everything not to be…

  • Demian Study Guide

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    Demian Study Guide Author: Hermann Hesse Original title: We all know the novel “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse, written in 1922, his interpretation of the journey of a young Indian Prince from his life of luxury to his ultimate enlightenment and becoming a Buddha. But only a few of the readers know that it wasn’t the…

  • The Prince Study Guide

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    The Prince Study Guide Author: Niccolò Machiavelli Original title: Il principe Published: June 1st 2003 by Dante University of America Press (first published 1513) ISBN 0937832383 (ISBN13: 9780937832387) Political influence and power games have always been at the center of literary inspiration sources. A famous Italian political expert, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a great treatise “The…