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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...

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...

Nelly Dean was an inaccurate narrator even though she witnessed most of the main novel events. Her views of the story were biased. She underlined her disapproval of Catherine Earnshaw...

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...

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...

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....

A-7713 is the serial number assigned to the protagonist Elie by the Nazis after arriving at the concentration camp. Instead of a name, each of those who come to such German camps...

Melantho is not a well-known character in the poem. She is Penelope's maid and the sister of Melanthius in Odyssey. In the poem, Melantho betrays Penelope. She appears to be more loyal...

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...

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...

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...

Racism is a minor topic in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The short story is filled with words like "nigger" and full of creepy white characters. The author is often accused of racism,...

Elizabeth in Frankenstein dies due to the monster’s attack, who strangles her. The incident happened when the couple was on their honeymoon, and Victor left her alone in the room. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

The Buna Werke, also known as Auschwitz III, was a factory. Here, Nazi leaders sent Jews for work. For Elie and his father, working in Buna became the only opportunity to avoid the...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Odysseus looks for his way back home from the Trojan War. Circe, the daughter of Apollo, advises the hero to find the soothsayer Tiresias to get the directions from her. However, Homer...

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...

Act 1, scene 1 of Hamlet, sets the tone for the entire play. The sense of suspense and fear is created through the ghost. It’s a character that looks like the deceased King of Denmark....

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...

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...

The Odyssey and the Iliad are known for the courage and intelligence proclamation in a warrior.  These are the best qualities that shape him as a man. It glorifies honor as the most...

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...

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...

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...

The reasons for revealing Odysseus's name and putting his men in more danger were his anger and pride. As one of the Greek heroes, he paid much attention to the glory and desired to be...

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...

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...

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a modernization of the British classic masterpiece Pride and Prejudice. Set in a different era, the 1996 novel about Bridget Jones references the original in...

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...

Upon learning of his father’s death, Laertes feels immense grief. He immediately tries to find the one responsible for the act. He is shown full of anger and sadness at the same time,...

Myrtle Wilson does not have a central role in the narrative of The Great Gatsby. However, she is still an essential part of the novel. It is evident that Myrtle is lively and...

Irony plays a crucial role in the story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It emphasizes how the course of treatment chosen by the narrator`s husband aggravates her condition. It also...

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...

The general mood in the Necklace is ironic. It is filled with tense and grim storytelling elements. The given spirit is there from the beginning of the story. It illustrates a high...

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...

The novel’s action takes place at the end of the 18th century in the remote district of Yorkshire. The setting of Wuthering Heights adds to the story’s themes. It also creates an...

The nunnery scene is a result of Hamlet's issues with both his mother and Ophelia. One has been sleeping around and married his uncle, and the other just declined his advances. To his...