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Answered a Question in History

The most important difference between these two writers is that Tacitus was far...

Answered a Question in 1984

Winston has committed a grievous offense by writing in his diary during his lunch...

Answered a Question in 1984

Winston has developed a strange feeling of trust for O'Brien, who he suspects...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul and his comrades navigate a landscape of death and destruction, wrought by...

Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales

According to the Prologue, the Franklin is motivated primarily by a love of good...

Answered a Question in Animal Farm

Probably the most persuasive aspect of Old Major's speech is his description of...

Answered a Question in Voting Behavior

It is difficult to imagine, given the intensity of the political debates that have...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

When Lady Capulet enters Juliet's chamber to tell her the news, her daughter does...

Answered a Question in Essay Lab

One reason this is true is because Elizabeth's reign represented a brief respite...

Answered a Question in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Franklin takes a very rational view of marriage at one point in the Autobiography....

Answered a Question in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank and her family were affluent German Jews, originally from the city of...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul responds to the girl on the poster with amazement. They could hardly believe,...

Answered a Question in Literature

Food is indeed important in All Quiet on the Western Front. Kat, one of the...

Answered a Question in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

One example of Franklin's pragmatism is the way he cultivated an image of...

Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye

The best way to describe his thoughts about the three girls he meets is...

Answered a Question in A Modest Proposal

Swift (tongue-in-cheek, of course) lists multiple advantages to his plan. First,...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

It certainly could be argued that Mercutio is brash to a fault, though his dying...

Answered a Question in The Stranger

The setting of The Stranger is Algiers, in French Algeria (North Africa), in the...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is full of gritty, realistic descriptions of the...

Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant

Orwell flatly does not want to shoot the elephant, which, after rampaging through...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

Whether Germany is winning or losing is not really the central concern of the...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

One change in the boys is evident right away: Paul and his friends are not at all...

Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily

In the second paragraph of "A Rose for Emily," the house is personified by the...

Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant

The Burmese people hate Orwell, or more properly the narrator, because as a...

Answered a Question in The Last Silk Dress

The New Orleans Zouaves was a general term applied to soldiers recruited initially...