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Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is complicated. The prince had genuine feelings towards Ophelia before his father's death. Following his mother's second...

Madame Loisel is the main character of The Necklace. She undergoes a radical change from being preoccupied with material possessions to discovering appreciation of what one has in...

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë used numerous examples of figurative language. In such a way, she made the text more colorful and engaging for the reader. Irony, hyperbole, imagery,...

Mary Shelley uses personification, symbolism, similes, and metaphors. Figurative language in Frankenstein is a critical tool that reflects the plot subtexts. It refers to the...

Nick is a first-person narrator in the novel. He describes Gatsby's car to have a creamy color, bright and extravagant with multiple windshields. It appears to be as pompous as its...

The Yellow Wallpaper is told through the perspective of a woman who is slowly driven into insanity. First, she lacked human contact. Second, she was unable to distract herself from...

The showdown between Iago and Othello is one of the central issues of Shakespeare’s play. There are two core reasons for Iago's hate towards Othello: career issues personal...

Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by Emily Brontë. It notably influenced the development of English literature. The book is known as one of the best stories of late...

The Yellow Wallpaper contains several controversies. But the central conflict is the opposition between society and a man. This struggle of two concepts reflects modern problems as...

The excerpt from part 2 that best describes Odysseus’ weakness is “I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer.” This line establishes Odysseus’ excessive pride. It reflects on...

Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet goes on a quest to take revenge against his father’s murderer. Some characters support Hamlet, while others scheme against him. Laertes is one of...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper takes place between the late 1890s and early 1900s. The main reason is that the story depicts Gilman’s own life. Thus, it is a...

Writers use imagery to create a special mood and images related to the plot. Flannery O’Connor describes the forest, sky, car, and characters to create the desired effect. Her imagery...

Victor Frankenstein creates a monster and promises him a bride of his kind not to be lonely. But the scientist changes his mind. He fears that male and female creatures will procreate....

Although it may appear to be challenging to determine the setting of “The Necklace”, the author leaves some clues. They help identify that the story takes place in France, namely...

By the end of the story, Victor loses all his humanity due to his desire for revenge. The monster killed everyone the scientist loved, making the wrath even worse. Detailed answer: ...

The editions of 1818 and 1831 are different in quite a few aspects, one of which is the number of chapters. The new version contains a different story of Elizabeth and several changes...

Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights because she needed to give way to her passions. She was eager to unveil the wild side of an English person’s personality. She also strove for...

The plot of the novel by Mary Shelley, is constructed on the conflict of heart and intellect. Victor Frankenstein faces the challenge of choice: to have a family or to have fame and...

Odysseus swore an oath to protect Helen of Troy and her family at all costs. It made him leave Ithaca and go to the Trojan War. Detailed answer: Odysseus is an important...

Prometheus and Frankenstein suffered for their deeds. They attempted to create a new life and faced the results of their actions. Both of the characters suffered from disregarding the...

He grabbed the branch of a fig tree that grew above the whirlpool and hung there until Charybdis began to spew water. Together with water came the mast of the ship, clinging to which...

The story of Gawain Poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight takes place in King Arthur’s Britain during the middle ages. Britain at that time is described as a land of wonders and...

The primary use of the dramatic convention in act 1 scene 2 is the introduction of a significant conflict. Claudius states that he has married the widow of his brother, King Hamlet. It...

The most common theory is that Jane is the unnamed protagonist and the narrator. Gilman uses an unreliable narrator to show her rapid mental health decline. The character refers to...

Othello kills his wife Desdemona as a result of a delicate plot designed by Iago. When he becomes overwhelmed with jealousy, he plans to kill her while she is asleep. However, she...

Desdemona is a daughter of a powerful Venetian politician, educated and gentle. She became a wife of a general in the Venetian army, Othello, which is also prestigious. Her...

The resolution of the short story reveals that the loss of the Necklace was an imitation. But Madame Loisel worked so hard to compensate for it. Loisel and her husband spent ten years...

In the Odyssey - Amphimedon, the desire to avenge the suitors motivated Odysseus to dress like a beggar. Odysseus’ disguise allows him to find out people’s true attitudes toward him....

At the end of her novel, Austen describes the double wedding between Bennett's sisters. Elizabeth and Jane marry Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. She shows how controversial marriage is....

Odysseus is a dynamic character who learns how to be patient and humble throughout his journey. However, after returning to Ithaca, the transformation into an old man is when he truly...

The wallpaper is the screen onto which the narrator projects her fears. Its pattern makes her anxious about invisible supervision. At first, her condition is disquiet. Then it turns to...

In contrast to the Iliad, the second work of Homer, the Odyssey, contains many allusions. They are mostly related to ancient methodology. Allusions help evaluate characters’ trials and...

In chapter 6, Gatsby reveals that he wants to reunite with Daisy. He wishes to forget the fact that she was with Tom for the last five years. He is willing to pretend that these years...

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the main character accepts a challenge from the Green Knight with dignity. Why? Because he is eager to protect the honor of the Knights of Round...

Homer's Odyssey presents several divine characters. Among them are Poseidon, Athena, and Hermes. Similar to his mythological role, Hermes serves as a messenger. In the myths, he is...

Bianca is Cassio's lover, who plays an essential role in the play's tragic development. She participates in Iago’s scheme against her will, helping Othello believe that Desdemona is...

In the play, the phrase “the green eyed monster” referrers to jealousy. In Act 3, Scene 3, while trying to make Othello envious, Iago uses this phrase. The villain plants the seeds of...

There are various assumptions about the title of the story by Flannery O’Connor. However, the main idea of the novel – good vs. evil – gives hints to explanation. In literal...

In Chapter 5, Nick sets up the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy. And the ex-partners behave in a highly stiff and stressful way. It is evident that both experience some discomfort and...

Victor Frankenstein appears sympathetic and ambitious at first. Everything changes when he decides to create a living creature. His motivation to make a new life was selfish, which he...

At the beginning of the book, Eliezer has a strong religious faith, which contains the meaning of his life. He hopes to study the tradition of his people deeply in order to find...

Racism in Othello is the essential theme that plays a significant role in the plot development. Othello is the only black-skinned character in the play. His unusual appearance becomes...

Hamlet gets wounded at the duel with Claudius and tells his last words to his friend Horatio. The prince reflects on Denmark's political situation and leaves a remark, "the rest is...

Daisy and Tom Buchanan are a perfect match for each other. But it's not due to personal traits of character, shared ambitions, or sincere, romantic feelings. They deserve each other...

Contemplating suicide in his soliloquy “To be or not to be,” Hamlet talks about “shuffling off this mortal coil.” As an idiom, the phrase means “to die and free oneself from the...

Phemius is a bard of Ithaca. He sings a sad song about the Trojan War to the suitors of Penelope. The role of Phemius in Homer's Odyssey is to show the importance of oral storytelling...

Heathcliff is one of the male characters of the novel Wuthering Heights written by Emily Brontë. He is perceived as an antagonist hero who broke down his relationships with people who...

The narrator appears to be naive, yet in reality, he is very observant. He sees peoples' real personalities vividly. Moreover, he uses dramatic irony to describe the characters, their...

English moors are an area of barren strips of land covered with grass and heather. In Wuthering Heights, they are described as an empty and bleak territory. Their central role is to...