Category: Study Guides

  • Miss Maudie Atkinson

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    Miss Maudie represents the world of noble conservative ladies who perceive their own worth. She has refined manners, preferring slowness instead of fussiness and chaos. The heroine is famous for her wit and commitment to justice. She protects a person regardless of his origin, wealth or skin color. When Miss Stephanie tells her about Boo, the…

  • Mr. Karl Lindner

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    Mr. Karl Lindner is presented by the author as the manor character of the play. Lorraine Hansberry describes him as a person full of contradictions. For example, when he is shy and confused to arrive in the family household of the Youngers; nonetheless, later, this man says disrespectful things to the members of the family…

  • Our Town Study Guide

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    Our Town Study Guide Author: Thornton Wilder Original title: Our Town: A Play in Three Acts The play by Thornton Wilder is very interesting because it is literally a play within a play. The events of the book are happening on stage in a theater of the small town of Grover’s Corners. The best way…

  • Cannery Row Essays

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    Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck is a brilliant storyteller capable of crafting such vibrant and captivating literary works that one can effortlessly exit their own life and enter another. John Steinbeck has a passion for divulging the flaws of human nature and he is not afraid to write about the raw and…

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Study Guide

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God Study Guide Author: Zora Neale Hurston Original title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Characters: Pheoby Watson, Leafy, Johnny Taylor, Logan Killicks, Tea Cake, Janie Crawford , Nanny Crawford, Joe Starks, The Washburns , Mrs. Turner “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a marvelous example of women literature that can do…

  • Earl of Gloucester

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    One of the dominant features of the Earl of Gloucester is his spiritual blindness, which by the end of the play turns into a physical ailment. This is very symbolic of Shakespeare’s works. The old man, Gloucester, was unable to recognize falsity and flattery in Edmund’s speeches, as well as problems within the kingdom. He…

  • Pope

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    Pope was a lover of Linda. His character is rather ambiguous and controversial. He brought alcohol to Linda’s home, and they had sleepless nights together. Pope gave a complete book of Shakespeare works to John when he was at the age of twelve. The boy reads the passage, and those words resemble him relations between…

  • Quentin Compson III

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    The fate of this character is placed in the space of one day — June 2, 1910. Quentin’s thoughts are turned into the past. He thinks about his sister Caddy, whom he loves very much. A Dalton Ames seduced caddy. Learning about Caddy’s pregnancy, he decides to take the blame for himself, to take a…

  • Lady Macbeth

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    She is the wife of the general Macbeth. This woman has strong ambitions and thirsts for power and status. She is merciless and cruel, pushes her husband to kill the king and capture the throne. At the beginning of the play, the passion burns between the spouses, and Lady Macbeth uses it to guide her…

  • Sebastian

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    The character of Sebastian is a very amiable hero. He is handsome, young and of noble origin. It is noteworthy that at the beginning of the play Sebastian takes a passive position. He serves as a memory of the terrible shipwreck in which his sister Viola died. On his rescue, the audience will find out…