Mary Pieper

Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato trick Benedick into falling in love with Beatrice by letting him overhear them talking about how Beatrice is secretly in love with him. In a similar way, Hero and...

In chapter 6 of The Princess Bride, Count Rugen states his main motivation for being a torturer is his obsession with pain and what causes it. After his first round of torturing Westley, Rugen...

Jane and Rochester's relationship is complicated from the beginning, because he isn't straightforward with her. At their first meeting, she tells him she's the new governess at Thornfield Hall, but...

Although the two poems are identical in structure and rhyme scheme, "We Old Dudes" is not a parody of "We Real Cool" because Joan Murray isn't imitating Gwendolyn Brooks's style in an exaggerated...

In chapter 12, Kit tells Nat that she feels like she doesn’t fit in since moving from Barbados, the tropical island where she grew up and had a lot of freedom, to the Puritan community of...

In chapter 11, Prudence tells Kit that her father wanted to send her to school, but her mother said she's "too stupid." However, Goodwife Cruff's reasons for keeping her child out of school go...

The relationship between Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort is based on false pretenses. First of all, “Sir Rowland” isn't real. Mirabell makes up the existence of a wealthy uncle named Sir Rowland who...

One example of the narrator’s becoming an omniscient character is when Mr. Mortimer Jones shouts over a drink that Dexter—who quit his job as a caddy at the golf club earlier that day—was the best...

The narrator’s husband and her brother, who are both doctors, believe women who are suffering from what was then referred to as hysteria should not work. In the case of the narrator, that work is...

Lucy gets clothes and other items for helping—or pretending to help—those around her. She acts as a go-between for Lydia and Captain Jack Absolute, who is pretending to be a mere ensign so Lydia...

A good example of a functional character, Mr. Riley, makes his entrance early on in The Mill on the Floss. Riley comes to visit Mr. Tulliver about dam arbitration in book 1, chapter 3. While he is...

In this scene Juliet is facing a crisis and must think on her own when authority figures in her life fail her. When Juliet’s mother tells she is to be Paris’ bride, she refuses and questions why...