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Rabbi Eliabou was an old devout Jewish prisoner in the concentration camp. Everyone around respected him for his kindness. His son left when the father started feeling weaker to get...

Darcy’s letter reveals the bitter truth about Wickham to Elizabeth. At first, the heroine does not accept that she has been deceived in such a crooked way. Still, Elizabeth recognizes...

Hamlet’s monologue reveals the immense grief that the hero feels after losing his father. The main character is confronted with the fact that his mother married another man after only...

The Clown in Othello plays several roles apart from the one of comic relief. However, one of his memorable lines relates directly to comedy. As the Clown comments on the musicians’...

Theoclymenus tells Penelope that Odysseus is back on the island. He states that the king is busy gaining information about suitors’ evil deeds. The king is preparing his revenge....

The question of whether Othello is a positive or negative figure is rather controversial. On the one hand, he is a noble soldier and a careful Desdemona’s husband. On the other hand,...

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby appears as a man with a newly found fortune. He is extravagant, like his parties, but he is also incredibly lonely. Many people around refer to him as a...

In the novel, balls as a social experience provide historical background. It contributes to the plot development. At the same time, balls revealed the character's traits for readers'...

Pardoners move around the countryside and sell church pardons, including holy objects, clothing, bones, and other things that saints owned in the past. They claim that those bones have...

The Green Knight set out to test Sir Gawain’s virtue and the ability to rely on his faith. Instead of putting his trust in an inanimate object that may be expected to give him...

Homer's Odyssey is a unique creation of literary art. The poem canonizes the image of Odysseus. Nowadays, there are countless plays based on the story of The Iliad and The Odyssey....

Lydia Bennet, Elizabeth’s sister, appears in multiple locations throughout the novel. In the end, she lives in London with her new husband. Lydia initially lives in Bennet’s house with...

Nick Carraway is one of the main characters in The Great Gatsby. He is the story’s narrator, and therefore, readers see everything through his eyes. Despite Nick’s promise “to reserve...

There are no less than nine theatrical productions of Frankenstein. The first one by Richard Brinsley Peake was named Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein. It debuted in 1823. In...

The young man and woman visited the Grange for the first time because of simple interest. They opted to watch how strange Lintons spend their evening and make fun of them. Catherine...

Pentangle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a symbol of pure and indefinite truth. It represents five groups of characteristics made up of five attributes each. They are the...

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She describes a young woman's dramatic experiences. Her husband, John, prescribed her treatment for...

Two different landscapes show the world of contrast in Wuthering Heights. They are the everyday town and harsh moors in the house's windows. It is the contradiction between Heights and...

The exposition of the story reveals the protagonists' traits. The reflection of the public opinion of Maupassant's generation is the toll to achieve the goal. The show exhibits the...

Wuthering Heights is one of the famous novels written by the British author Emily Brontë. The action takes place at the Yorkshire Moors, which, thanks to the novel, became one of...

People could not believe that such brutality may occur in the twentieth-century world. They expected that politics and diplomacy would not allow the genocide of an entire nation. ...

Daisy and Gatsby's relationship is dark and complicated. It becomes "renewed" at two points throughout the novel. Detailed answer: From the very beginning, it becomes apparent...

Elie Wiesel uses anaphora, or repetition, several times throughout the story. Why does he do that? The answer is simple. He wants to focus the reader’s attention on the emotive state...

Caught up in Heathcliff's plan, Cathy gets imprisoned in the manor of Withering Heights. She desires to return home as soon as possible and demands to be released. At one point, Liston...

Reynaldo must follow Polonius’s instructions because Polonius is his social superior, whom he must listen to and obey. Detailed answer: In Hamlet, these two figures have...

Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy is an American romantic comedy. It is based on Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. It features the same characters and plot lines....

Young Gatsby loved the image he created for himself with a great passion. He did not know the real Daisy but dreamed of a beautiful high-class girl. She lives with no worries, and...

When Victor Frankenstein and the monster finally meet, the creature tells a story of his moral transformation. Driven by the need to feel accepted but unable to fulfill it, he turns to...

Beowulf is a brave Anglo-Saxon prince, and Sir Gawain is a typical Medieval knight. They adhere to different values because the world's picture was not the same at their times. Beowulf...

There are two types of conflict in the short story: internal and external. The first problem arises in the difference between a vacation and an escaped criminal. The second...

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight’s Tale, the author introduces the Knight in the General Prologue. He is described as an honorable man with high morals. The Knight is a man of high...

There is no definite answer to the narrator's name in The Yellow Wallpaper. She is never directly addressed throughout the short story. But some readers speculate that she might be...

Brabantio is one of the secondary characters of Othello. He is a noble Venetian senator and Desdemona’s father. The readers first meet him in act 1, scene 1. Here, Iago and Roderigo...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's novel. In the story, Isabella Linton becomes infatuated with Heathcliff. She marries the man. The marriage is unhappy and abusive. Heathcliff uses...

The medieval romance has the following distinctive features: The main character demonstrates chivalrous behavior throughout the entire romance. The protagonist is brave and...

As time changes, creators interpret the themes from Hamlet differently. It leads to various adaptations that include technologies, current culture and ideas. In other words, what the...

Hamlet does not see the value of human life. He thinks that those who decide to continue living are cowards. Pondering life and death in his key soliloquy, Hamlet comes to one...

The first chapters of Frankenstein introduce the romantic hero. He is hoping to discover the origins of life. The atmosphere is spooky. The chapters involve horror scenes and make...

Iago is widely known as one of the most dangerous Shakespeare's villains. He commits evil acts and provokes others by creating conflicts. Iago is a master manipulator as he uses...

Charlotte Gilman’s story uses its setting to demonstrate the restrictions put on the main heroine. It symbolizes the position of women during the Victorian era. Detailed answer: ...

After the first meeting with King Claudius, it seems to us that he is evil, cruel, and heartless. Nevertheless, then we realize that his character is more complex. Claudius’ character...

Son of Polonius, brother of Ophelia, in Act I, Laertes is a dutiful character. In Act IV, he disregards all the rules and does not care whether his behavior is correct. Laertes is a...

Imagery is one of the essential components of the novel. The author gives symbolic meaning to many household items. She also uses such stylistic means as, for example, metaphor,...

The most crucial point in the setting is that it represents the decline of the Old South. Meanwhile, the children despise such states as Georgia and Tennessee. Their grandmother is...

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story by feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman first published in 1892. It describes the dramatic experiences of a young woman. Her husband, John, is a...

Literary critiques refer to O’Connor’s writing style as Southern Realism. She created a realistic narrative, adding features of irony, foreshadowing, and imagery. Through these...

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Green Knight insists on Gawain’s moral obligation in their agreement. Why does it happen? Because a high sense of honor inherent to a noble...

Near the end of the book, Hareton shoots himself by accident. This injury proves to be a good thing. Hareton's restrictions bring him and Cathy closer to each other. Detailed...

Despite Madame Eglantine’s “fluent” speaking skills, her French cannot be called good. It is because she is not aware of Parisian French and would likely be misunderstood by actual...

The antagonist in Maupassant's novel is not so much a person as a negative feeling. The female characters in the book are united by envy. The desire to seem better and more prosperous...