Homework Help Questions & Answers: Math, Science, Literature, History & More - eNotes.com

Homework Help

Ask a question about any subject
and get an answer instantly.

Thousands of answers

Access a vast library of expert answers. To date we've published 130722 questions, and new answers are added every day!

Literature Experts

From Hamlet to The Stranger — we specialize in literature. Ask a new question or browse the hundreds of thousands already asked by other students.

Certified experts

Our certified Educators are professors, teachers, and scholars who use their academic expertise and professional teaching experience to tackle your toughest questions.

Rigorous editing process

No other Q&A service has our quality standards. We pride ourselves on our edited, fact-checked, and original content. Learn about our editing process.

Explore all 0 questions

The Cry of the Children

The response generated is correct. The poet describes Little Alice’s sad life and uses it to criticize Victorian attitudes towards child labor. Another Victorian writer, Charles Dickens, wrote...

Latest answer posted May 5, 2024, 12:00 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

The Soldier

The response generated is largely correct. The poem can be read to convey the soldier’s patriotism and love of England and also as an anti-war condemnation of the futility of war. However, it is...

Latest answer posted May 5, 2024, 4:54 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Oliver Twist

The response generated is correct, accurately depicting Bill Sikes’s personality traits. He is brutal, cruel, violent, ill-tempered, dishonest and sometimes shrewd in a larcenous way. He is...

Latest answer posted May 5, 2024, 8:25 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Literature

The response generated is correct. In the poem, Hardy questions Man's existence and struggle for survival. The Enlightenment had thrown religious certainty into turmoil and with Darwinism espousing...

Latest answer posted May 4, 2024, 12:46 am (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

The Veldt

The AI-generated answer is accurate and explains how both stories address obsession. Below, I have answered your question with additional insights that can complement and enhance the previous...

Latest answer posted May 2, 2024, 3:57 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Wole Soyinka

The response generated is partially correct but, as with many literary works, there appear to be multiple ways to analyze the lines. Agreed that 'Silence for spectroscopic' would appear to...

Latest answer posted April 30, 2024, 2:21 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

The generated response is correct in its identification of the plot elements related to the presentation of character in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.” It also offers a good explanation of...

Latest answer posted April 30, 2024, 3:25 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Margaret Atwood

Overall, the AI-generated response does a good job of answering your prompt. It is accurate and captures the core themes of memory, perception, human-nature connection, and the protagonist's...

Latest answer posted April 30, 2024, 5:06 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Jane Eyre

The generated response correctly identifies the major personality traits of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre. Helen is indeed patient, intellectual, pious, compassionate, and accepting of whatever life and...

Latest answer posted April 27, 2024, 1:48 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Everyday Use

The generated response offers a good explanation of how Dee in “Everyday Use” is symbolized by a camera. The response is correct in its description of Dee’s view of her heritage and of Dee’s...

Latest answer posted April 27, 2024, 6:42 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Everyday Use

The response generated is correct but misses certain messages. Yes, the camera is a symbol that reflects Dee’s need to distance herself from her family. However, the camera also underscores...

Latest answer posted April 27, 2024, 8:07 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

The Things They Carried

Yes, the response generated is correct but there are other items the soldiers carried that also symbolize important themes or items. Although the "things they carried were largely determined by...

Latest answer posted April 24, 2024, 4:07 am (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

The Old Man and the Sea

The generated response accurately provides a clear and concise summary of The Old Man and the Sea, as well as its characters and themes. It clears up some of the confusion in the original prompt,...

Latest answer posted April 24, 2024, 4:46 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Kofi Awoonor

Yes, the generated response is correct, with no stipulations as to its accuracy. However, it is also worth noting that Kofi Awoonor uses water as a metaphor for what has happened in...

Latest answer posted April 24, 2024, 11:49 am (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

The Old Man and the Sea

Yes, the response generated is correct. The themes identified are key elements in the story. However, you might want to include analysis that also shows moral themes through the  old man's...

Latest answer posted April 23, 2024, 11:59 am (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Isaac Asimov

The generated response provides a generally accurate and coherent assessment of Asimov's argument in "Science and Beauty" and the structure of his essay. It correctly summarizes Asimov's argument...

Latest answer posted April 23, 2024, 5:25 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Dracula

The generated response is correct. It accurately and thoroughly names and describes the main character traits of Van Helsing.  While the generated answer covers his strengths, you could...

Latest answer posted April 22, 2024, 11:37 pm (UTC)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Kofi Awoonor

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

Dracula

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner was born in Mississippi roughly thirty years after the end of the Civil War and died there in the early 1960s. Over the course of his literary career, he was deeply interested in...

Latest answer posted September 19, 2018, 9:08 pm (UTC)

29 educator answers

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)

6 educator answers

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)

2 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

4 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer AI Fact-Check

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)

1 educator answer

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)

4 educator answers

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)

2 educator answers

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)

6 educator answers

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)

3 educator answers

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)

3 educator answers

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)

4 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer

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)

2 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer

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)

2 educator answers

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)

4 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer

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)

2 educator answers

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)

2 educator answers

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)

2 educator answers

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)

1 educator answer

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)

5 educator answers

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)

6 educator answers

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)

2 educator answers
Back to Top