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Cathy was the name of two characters in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights. One of them is Catherine Earnshaw. She is a female protagonist of the story. The second is Catherine...

The mysterious character The Misfit does not say his real name. He changed it to The Misfit because of his loneliness. He feels separated from the public because it is unfair to him....

By the time the imprisoned Jews were sent to Buchenwald, Eliezer’s father was too exhausted and weak. Having a clear understanding that his father needs support, the boy takes full...

Being on the train, the passengers already see pipes of crematoria, smoke, and fire. After leaving the train, Elie and his companions smell burning flesh. At this moment, their...

Calypso is a nymph that captures Odysseus for seven years. They live on a magical island of Ogygia before Odysseus manages to escape. When Odysseus lands on Ogygia during his travels,...

The grandmother and The Misfit stand in the center of A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Their disagreement represents the man vs. man conflict. These characters are very different, which...

The changes in the wallpaper’s description show how the mental state of the narrator gets worse. The irritating pattern becomes an unbearable sight. Jane believes that there is a...

The social class in The Great Gatsby, the outstanding novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is an integral part of the book. Upper-class people are expected to act with dignity, grace,...

After Mathilde borrows a necklace from her wealthy friend, her life changes completely. After the ball, she is forced to accept that her existence will be very different for many years...

Antinous wants to get rid of suitors. He suggests Telemachus kills the suitors. His aim is not to relieve the family from the issues suitors make. Instead, he wants to eliminate the...

The central conflict in the short story is the contrast between egoism and grace. In the last moments before death, the grandmother turns to faith through a spiritual rebirth. She...

Jay Gatsby first encountered Dan Cody on Lake Superior, where he was working. The character noticed that the storm was coming. So, he decided to warn the sailor about the bad weather....

Gawain comes back to Camelot after a battle with the Green Knight. He wears a green belt on his neck like a scarf. The entire court is happy to see him safe and hear his remarkable...

The card games are generally the nobility’s pastime in Pride and Prejudice. They include loo, vingt-un, whist, and commerce. Most of them are round games. They represent the divide...

Mary Shelley was the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet. Their relationship was both professional and personal. The couple shared the same passion for literature and a circle of...

The lady that tempted Sir Gawain is Bertilak's wife - Lady Bertilak. For three days in a row, she attempts to seduce the knight. However, she only receives several modest kisses. This...

“Frankenstein complex” was suggested by Isaac Asimov. It describes the unconscious fear of artificial objects overtaking humanity. Asimov was the first to discuss the phobia of...

Roderigo’s rage at Cassio is a part of Iago’s evil plan. He intends to disgrace Cassio in front of Othello. His incompetent behavior can lead to his dismissal from the lieutenant's...

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...

Hamlet’s character changes after a visit from his deceased father. The ghost reveals the truth about his death—that it was Claudius who killed his father. It affects Hamlet’s behavior...

Elie Wiesel refers to the Sighet residents as "our friends of yesterday." He expresses his resentment and disappointment at his neighbors, who chose to stay ignorant about the...

Hamlet's mother and the Queen of Denmark, Gertrude, is one of the play’s main characters. Her development between Act I and Act IV can be summarized as follows – she becomes less...

One of Jane Austen’s most popular novels, Pride and Prejudice, became classic English literature. Every year, it attracts more readers. Jane Eyre and Little Women are some of the books...

The Yellow Wallpaper is written as the diary of a physician’s wife subjected to a rest cure. She goes through a “temporary nervous depression” after the birth of her child. In modern...

The first selection in Night meant the first split in Elie's family. Men and women were separated at the concentration camp. One of the prisoners warned Elie and his father to lie...

The father-son relationships run like a thread throughout the book. First of all, this is the story of the author himself and the evolution of his relationship with his father, with...

The narrator spends a summer in the ex-nursery room of a colonial mansion. Her husband, a physician, imprisons her in the building as part of the rest cure. It was the popular...

The story of Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights unfolds over the course of three decades, starting in 1771. It is told by Mr. Lockwood’s housekeeper in 1801, and the last events of the...

In the Odyssey, a hundred and eight suitors assured that Odysseus would not return home. The suitors were captivated by the charm and intellect of Odysseus' wife, Penelope. Therefore,...

Victor builds his monster on a lonely island in the Orkney Islands chain in Scotland. This place is quiet, peaceful, and lonely, which is what the scientist wants to implement his...

The yellow wallpaper is a collective symbol. It represents different aspects of the time when the story was written. It refers to the oppressive social standards of patriarchy. Women...

In Frankenstein, Walton appears as a similar character to Victor. Walton is ambitious. He rejected his family to become famous in the scientific field. Although his ambitions led him...

I agree that Madame Loisel’s efforts to pay off her debts are heroic. The protagonist of The Necklace undergoes significant changes. She goes from an extravagant and mean woman to a...

In the novel, Mary Shelley tries to understand the monstrous nature of Frankenstein’s creature. The writer wondered if the monster was born evil or became a villain due to society and...

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...

Mrs. Schachter sees the flames and smells the smoke during the journey. She foresees the dreadful future for every person on the train. Perhaps, the woman is the only one who...

In general, it can be stated that Nick is not a quite reliable narrator due to several reasons. For instance, he may not be present during a significant event. It means he can't...

Victor’s Frankenstein’s curse was his inability to become happy. He created the monster to distract from his grief. In the end, the beast brought him more misery by killing Victor’s...

Science, Gothic, and romantic fiction genres are different. However, Mary W. Shelley managed to unite them. She created one of the most famous literary works of the XIX century....

Irus or Arnaeus is a character from the Odyssey. One of his primary functions in the text is transmitting messages for Penelope's suitors. Odysseus returns home from his twenty years...

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...

Frankenstein is a novel that highlights the real problems and anxieties that people experience in life. Writing a fictional story, the author delivered the theme of horror and showed...

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...

Overall, the face of the creature looked terrible. It was so scary and disgusting that Victor started to fear his invention and ran away from the apartment. In addition to the book's...

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'...

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are two central characters in Pride and Prejudice. The main plotline is tied around them. They take part in all significant events. Despite their...

The most obvious example of irony in A Good Man is Hard to Find are words of the grandmother. The satire lies in the way she thinks about the world and what such reflections lead to....

For Hamlet, it is essential to portray a story in a realistic way. He wants the actors to represent people as close as possible to their real images. In The Murder of Gonzago, he tries...

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...

Mme. Jeanne Forestier learns from Mathilde Loisel that she and her husband replaced her fake necklace with real diamonds. At first, she is surprised by the appearance of her friend -...