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Literature

The generated response offers a good overview of Abraham Van Helsing’s complex personality. It is correct in identifying this character as intelligent, humble, respectful, determined, brave, and...

Latest answer posted April 22, 2024, 2:03 pm (UTC)

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Lord of the Flies

One way to easily identify symbols is to look at each person and object and ask yourself what it represents.  Since Lord of the Flies is allegorical, almost everything and everyone is a...

Latest answer posted October 14, 2012, 5:46 pm (UTC)

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Jane Eyre

Mrs. Reed, John Reed These two make her early life a nightmare. She is treated unfairly and like an animal rather than a human and even one of the maids tells her she should be thankful for what...

Latest answer posted July 2, 2008, 3:17 am (UTC)

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Literature

The AI-generated answer is correct. Below, you will find additional information about the poem and essential information about Kofi Awoonor: Those poetic lines are from the powerful poem "I Am the...

Latest answer posted April 15, 2024, 1:27 pm (UTC)

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Preludes

The AI-generated response has some accurate suggestions. However, it doesn't consider the confusion the reviewer of your analysis is experiencing and how to address it directly. Your feedback...

Latest answer posted April 11, 2024, 12:44 pm (UTC)

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Ordinary People

The AI-generated answer is accurate. Here are 4 additional instances for comparison between themes using direct quotes from "Ordinary People" and "Hamlet": 1. Parent-Child Relationship Strain:...

Latest answer posted April 11, 2024, 1:01 pm (UTC)

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The Echo Maker

The AI-generated response is accurate. However, it does move more into the personal effect Schluter's condition had on Gerard Weber. Below, you will find a categorized explanation of how the...

Latest answer posted April 10, 2024, 1:43 pm (UTC)

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The Night the Ghost Got In

It is just after 1:00 a.m. when the narrator believes that he hears the quick pacing of footsteps around his dining room table downstairs. He has just emerged from a bath and is clad in only a...

Latest answer posted November 18, 2020, 2:34 pm (UTC)

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William Butler Yeats

The generated response is correct when it identifies five of William Butler Yeats’ contributions to modern poetry: innovation in symbolism and allusion, the subconscious, individualism,...

Latest answer posted March 26, 2024, 1:56 pm (UTC)

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Measure for Measure

No, the AI-generated answer is incorrect. Here is why: It does not answer the question posed. It focuses on answering a question that was not asked, "Was Isabella a Catholic?" The question asked is...

Latest answer posted April 8, 2024, 1:42 pm (UTC)

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Hamlet

The AI-generated answer is accurate. However, it doesn't cover some main ways the lines between reality and fiction are blurred. Here is additional information to answer your question: In Hamlet...

Latest answer posted April 8, 2024, 1:55 pm (UTC)

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Crumbs from the Table of Joy

The generated response is correct in general, but it does get some of the details wrong. The Epilogue does not show Ernestine as a successful radio journalist. The play concludes...

Latest answer posted April 3, 2024, 3:42 pm (UTC)

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism differs from democracy in several ways. One difference deals with the leaders. In a totalitarian system, the leaders may come to power by force or by manipulation. They will stay in...

Latest answer posted January 21, 2016, 6:02 pm (UTC)

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Hamlet

The most important quote revealing that Hamlet is only pretending to be insane comes after Hamlet meets with the ghost. Horatio is with him, and knows all about the various sightings of the ghost,...

Latest answer posted February 28, 2020, 12:42 am (UTC)

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Midnight's Children

The title chosen by Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, refers to the 1,001 children born within the hour after the stroke of midnight on the day of India’s independence, August 15, 1947, each...

Latest answer posted December 18, 2018, 3:26 pm (UTC)

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Atticus simply means that the case is pretty straightforward. The prosecution in the trial of Tom Robinson hasn't offered a single shred of credible evidence to prove that the defendant is guilty....

Latest answer posted December 15, 2018, 11:29 am (UTC)

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet act 3, scene 4, is a brief scene and contains little in the way of literary devices. Paris says: These times of woe afford no time to woo. “Woe” and “woo” are here juxtaposed in...

Latest answer posted January 7, 2020, 8:21 am (UTC)

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Parallelism, the use of identical or very similar structures, can be applied at various levels, from phrases through paragraphs. Harper Lee uses parallel structures frequently. As the book is...

Latest answer posted February 14, 2020, 7:04 am (UTC)

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Well, first of all Tom isn't guilty; he's entirely innocent of the crimes for which he's been charged. The only reason he's been hauled in front of a court on these trumped-up charges is because of...

Latest answer posted March 26, 2020, 7:28 am (UTC)

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Romeo and Juliet

This particular scene is full of puns, particularly shown to reveal Mercutio's playful and rather bawdy personality. Many of these puns, therefore, are sexual in nature. Consider this one:...

Latest answer posted January 30, 2020, 9:05 pm (UTC)

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The Great Gatsby

In chapter five, the color green represents both Gatsby's dream and the tarnishing of that dream. Gatsby has been for a long time gazing with longing at the green light across the bay at the edge...

Latest answer posted November 12, 2018, 1:28 pm (UTC)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Singers" is a poem about three different singers who are sent to the Earth by God. Their purpose is to sing a variety of songs and to touch the hearts of men,...

Latest answer posted July 30, 2016, 7:50 am (UTC)

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Romeo and Juliet

We are not told much by Shakespeare about Juliet's appearance, but may be able to surmise a few things. One thing we know for sure is that she is very, very young. She is presently thirteen and...

Latest answer posted February 4, 2013, 2:49 am (UTC)

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Macbeth

In a sense, everyone tries to control the future. By studying for a test, you attempt to influence your future grade, for example. Listening to the witches and attempting to use the information...

Latest answer posted December 18, 2019, 2:51 pm (UTC)

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Two Little Soldiers

The central theme of "Two Little Soldiers" is the incompatibility of friendship and romantic love. Jean and Luc are best friends under the most trying of circumstances. When both fall in love with...

Latest answer posted May 15, 2010, 1:49 am (UTC)

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The Storyteller

One could interpret this story as a salutary warning against the dangers of idolatry: worshipping a piece of art as if it were a god. Henri Deplis has a masterpiece on his back, a tattoo depicting...

Latest answer posted September 28, 2018, 11:30 am (UTC)

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The Great Gatsby

In Chapter V, when Nick returns home late one night, he meets Gatsby outside. Gatsby awkwardly references Nick's job and the fact that he does not make much money as a bond salesman. Gatsby begins...

Latest answer posted March 29, 2018, 12:56 pm (UTC)

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Animal Farm

There are many quotes to show Napoleon is a bad leader. He is an egotistical animal. His sole talent is his ability to ruthlessly amass and hold onto power. He is quite willing to sacrifice the...

Latest answer posted June 16, 2019, 1:42 pm (UTC)

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The Rising of the Moon

The Ragged Man proves very skillful at diverting the Sergeant from doing his duty as a police officer. Initially, the Sergeant is very hostile toward the man and orders him to leave for the town so...

Latest answer posted November 11, 2019, 8:48 am (UTC)

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Julius Caesar

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare includes two women in the dramatis personae. Calpurnia and Portia have similarities but also are a study in differences.  Calpurnia, Julius...

Latest answer posted July 31, 2013, 2:18 pm (UTC)

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Prejudice takes many different forms, and virtually all of them are on display in To Kill a Mockingbird. Aside from racial prejudice, there's also a good deal of social snobbery around. There's a...

Latest answer posted November 27, 2018, 8:25 am (UTC)

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Romeo and Juliet

There are examples of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony in Act III. In the first scene of Act III, we witness situational irony when Mercutio teases Benvolio and counsels him not to start a...

Latest answer posted May 14, 2017, 6:35 am (UTC)

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J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie's play The Will focuses on the passage of time, greed, and death. In the beginning, Mr. and Mrs. Ross come to the law office of the Devizes as a youthful, loving, and humble...

Latest answer posted November 14, 2018, 7:51 am (UTC)

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Twelve Angry Men

Juror #10 establishes his racial prejudice quite early on in the play. His first few lines don't indicate anything, but then he says the following line: Well, look, you've gotta expect that. You...

Latest answer posted March 5, 2018, 2:14 pm (UTC)

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Second-Class Citizen

In Second-Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta includes and comments on various superstitious beliefs and traditions, making the point that the difference between a belief condemned as superstitious and...

Latest answer posted March 21, 2022, 8:12 am (UTC)

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Langston Hughes

The one-act play written by Langston Hughes entitled A Soul Gone Home portrays several messages about poverty, family, racial inequality, and selfishness. This play was written in 1937, which was a...

Latest answer posted September 11, 2017, 1:30 am (UTC)

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Pygmalion

Shaw's Pygmalion is based on the tale of "Pygmalion" the sculptor in Ovid's (Roman poet) Metamorphoses, which is fifteen tales written in Latin in heroic hexameter. In Ovid's "Pygmalion," the...

Latest answer posted July 29, 2010, 6:24 am (UTC)

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The American Scholar

The American scholar—and we can't forget the distinction of the American, as opposed to the European scholar—has, first, a duty not to be a "meek bookworm," docilely reading the great authors of...

Latest answer posted June 11, 2019, 12:54 pm (UTC)

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The Pot of Gold

Megadorus is a good character to choose for a character sketch because one can do so easily and briefly.  In fact, Megadorus teaches the reader much about the differences between love and...

Latest answer posted August 26, 2015, 5:10 pm (UTC)

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History

Despite the French Revolution occurring over a century before the Russian one, in many ways it took place in a far more advanced political and economic system. While Russia in the late nineteenth...

Latest answer posted August 1, 2012, 9:34 pm (UTC)

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The Monkey's Paw

The White family exists as a typical family with some struggles with money, and they jump at the chance to have three wishes granted by a mysterious monkey's paw. Even though Sergeant-Major Morris...

Latest answer posted September 16, 2019, 2:54 am (UTC)

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R. K. Narayan

The moral of the story is to be circumspect in whom one trusts.  In "A Career," the narrator welcomes a young stranger (Ramu) into his home. Ramu promises that he will work for shelter, food,...

Latest answer posted November 29, 2017, 7:36 pm (UTC)

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Geoffrey Hill

The poem "In Memory of Jane Fraser" looks at first glance to be from the 1800s, perhaps by the likes of William Blake; however, Geoffrey Hill wrote this poem in 1994. The slow rhythm, old-fashioned...

Latest answer posted October 8, 2019, 7:01 pm (UTC)

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The Outsiders

Cherry and Ponyboy meet in chapter 2 while at the movies. Despite being a Soc, she is open-minded enough to judge Ponyboy and Johnny based on how they initially treat her. It's why she lets them...

Latest answer posted June 9, 2019, 2:19 pm (UTC)

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History

Introduction Between 1884 and 1964, Cameroon was colonized by three different European countries: Germany, Britain, and France. Interestingly, it was the Portuguese that first discovered the...

Latest answer posted September 26, 2018, 8:11 am (UTC)

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The Merchant of Venice

Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well! Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you; For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use, To let the wretched man...

Latest answer posted February 22, 2009, 6:26 pm (UTC)

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The Great Gatsby

The second interpretation that is suggested in the more accurate of the two. For, Gatsby's "singularly appropriate education" is in criminality as the expedient method of wealth. His learning to be...

Latest answer posted August 4, 2013, 10:43 pm (UTC)

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Look Back in Anger

Jimmy Porter is one of the most challenging antiheroes to come out of the twentieth-century theater. He is a frustrated man: though highly intelligent, the rigid English class structure prevents...

Latest answer posted January 24, 2020, 1:14 pm (UTC)

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The Leap

The story is told by a narrator, not the principal character in the flashbacks.  The narrator, unlike Anna, the principal character, would not tell the story of her heroic, courageous...

Latest answer posted August 28, 2008, 6:52 am (UTC)

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The Cask of Amontillado

Fortunato is hoping against hope that he can somehow get Montresor to release him. His laughter is forced. He does not see anything funny about what has happened to him. It is horrible. But he...

Latest answer posted January 20, 2016, 8:01 pm (UTC)

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