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The Canterbury Tales is one of the well-known works of English literature. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It remains popular up till nowadays. It is a collection of...

Henry Clerval, Victor Frankenstein's close friend, helps the main character overcome months of fever in Chapter 5. To conceal the illness from his family, Henry takes on the...

Elie Wiesel is sent to the concentration camp with his father. The dad later dies of dysentery and physical abuse. In the book Night, Elie describes how his father’s neighbors, caring...

After twenty years of absence, Odysseus returns from his long wanderings. Penelope wants to ensure that the man is Odysseus. The man has changed over twenty years. So, she conceives a...

Elie Wiesel and his father, Shlomo Wiesel, leave the concentration camp at Buna because they are forced to go on the march to another location by the SS army. Such a decision was made...

The novel shows the gradual decline of the narrator’s mental state. She reaches the point of complete insanity when she tears down the yellow paper at the end. Having done so, she...

Victor Frankenstein has always been interested in the inner workings of the universe. Once he saw a bolt of lightning that struck a tree. This experience led to his explorations of...

Cyclops Polyphemus pleaded with Odysseus to return to the island. At first glance, because he wanted to befriend him and wished him only well. However, Polyphemus wanted to deceive...

The Canterbury Tales is commonly recognized as Geoffrey Chaucer's key work, his opus magnum. The collection of stories is written almost entirely in verse. Yet, there is an exception...

In the Odyssey, Odysseus follows Circe's advice to seek out Teiresias. He travels to Hades to speak with the prophet's ghost and learn how he can return home. What does Teiresias tell...

In Homer's poem, Calypso is a nymph. She kept Odysseus imprisoned on the island of Ogygia for seven years. The goddess symbolizes temptation. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality if he...

Wuthering Heights takes place in Yorkshire. This English county is famous for its moors that host two neighboring houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The two create the...

Hamlet’s view of women is indeed critical and suspicious. Act III of Hamlet provides an excerpt that best supports the claim. That is to say, this part: "I have heard of your paintings...

In Homer's Odyssey, the main character is the hero archetype with his cunning and brave nature. During his quest, he overcomes many obstacles in his way by deceiving monsters,...

The book Night rarely focuses on positive emotions or actions. It includes only a few scenes that reveal hope as one of the themes. One example is a French girl helping Elie despite...

At the Tabard Inn, the narrator meets 29 pilgrims who are on their way, making a pilgrimage to Canterbury. They let the narrator join them since he heads to the same place. Among the...

Michael Cassio, or simply Cassio, is one of Florentine's soldiers in the Venice army. At the beginning of the play, Othello promotes him to chief lieutenant. He is a man of gentle...

Though Gatsby is a fictional character, it's hard to believe someone in the '20s could afford such a lavish life. Some people speculate that he was a drug dealer, and some say that he...

After turning into a bug, most of the obstacles that Gregor from The Metamorphosis encounters are physical. The newly-attained insect body is foreign and hard to control. It...

Foreshadowing is a powerful literary device that Fitzgerald used to keep the reader intrigued! At the end of chapter 1, Nick sees Gatsby standing at the shore, trembling. He was...

The story of Elie Wiesel’s family described in his famous book Night is worth attention. They suffer much because of Nazism, which causes millions of deaths across the globe. His...

The author narrates the story from a third-person point of view. Despite this fact, the grandmother is in focus almost all the time. The narrator reveals her trail of thoughts to...

In the novel, the reader learns that Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine's father, adopted Heathcliff. The protagonist's origin is the central secret of the story. No one knows who Heathcliff's...

The unhappy ending is the dramatic convention. The author would utilize it to kill Hamlet at the end of the play. Hamlet can be considered both a comedy and a tragedy. So, such a...

The first reason why Frankenstein feels that he has the right to kill the Monster is that it is his creation. The second reason is that the Monster caused a lot of harm to him and his...

Technically, Pitty Sing caused the accident that led to the family’s death. But the actual cause was somewhat different from the wretched cat. Its owner took the pet on the trip, which...

Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, says that the travelers left their illusions behind once they got out of the train in Auschwitz. They had to leave all their belongings before going...

Lockwood’s character is the narrator of the novel. It means that the readers perceive various events from his point of view and judgment. His narration frames the story of Nelly Dean....

A novella is a short story, compared to more detailed narrative forms. There are not many characters, and it includes one storyline. It depicts an unexpected plot twist or ending. The...

Othello dies at the end of the play by committing suicide. The character stabs himself with a knife out of an immense feeling of guilt. The reason for his death is jealousy and, as a...

The Creature from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is an intelligent being. Despite being brought to life by the questionable actions of the protagonist, his mind is human-like. He is not...

The Yellow Wallpaper was written in 1892. Back then, women did not have the fundamental right to be responsible for their lives and well-being. Men were the ones to decide what a woman...

The term “Moor” is used by Shakespeare to separate Othello from other characters according to his culture and race. Moreover, the word Moor highlights the issue of racial prejudice in...

As the front is closer and closer to Buna, the concentration camp is ordered to evacuate in a few days. However, before the evacuation, the Nazis order people to wash floors and clean...

There is a moment when Nick realized that "the Middle West now seemed like a ragged edge of the universe." Then, Nick decided to move to New York and start a career in the bond...

The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, does not explicitly indicate when it takes place. Since it was written in 1884, the story should take place during the late 19th century....

Tiresias is a character from Homer's Odyssey. He is also well-known for Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Homer's epic poem, the protagonist meets...

Zeus tells Athena the story of Aegisthus. He wants to show her that the gods do not always have control over humans' actions, and that justified revenge is acceptable. Detailed...

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the author utilized the stanza pattern called Bob and...

The woman behind the wallpaper in Gilman’s short story represents the personality of the narrator. Throughout the plot, she falls into madness and seeks an escape. That’s why she...

Emily Brontë wrote only one book during her lifetime. It is called Wuthering Heights. She is also credited with writing several poems. Her work is regarded as a classic of English...

Elie Wiesel's challenging experience in concentration camps during the Holocaust compelled him to write the book Night. Such events leave no room for fun and positivity. The tone that...

First and foremost, a medieval romance is a tale of heroism, adventures, and chivalry. Sir Gawain stands up to protect his lord against someone with magic abilities. Therefore, the...

The narrator finds the yellow color of the wallpaper disturbing and revolting. She doesn’t like the erratic patterns and the fact that the wallpaper is peeling off. She claims it’s the...

William Shakespeare is believed to have written his tragedy Othello between 1603 and 1604. Actually, it is impossible to determine the exact year. So, scholars use the date of...

The author of the Necklace is Guy de Maupassant. Detailed answer: Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant is one of the greatest French novelists. He is a master of stories with...

While working as a nurse, Eurycleia finds herself talking to a beggar. He claims to be a former soldier who fought in the Trojan War with Odysseus. Eurycleia, yet, does not recognize...

Before he reached home, Odysseus had to avoid the disastrous effect of the Lotus plant. Thus, he had to flee the Lotus-eaters, fight with Sirens, and confront Charybdis and Scylla. ...

The stanza pattern used in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a Middle English chivalric romance, is called the “Bob and Wheel.” This pattern occurs when a short line (“the bob”) is...

Emily Brontë foreshadows the further plot to hint at future events and add to the mystery. But some predicted events have already happened because the narrative is nonlinear....