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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's King Lear, listed as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
As a theatrical work of the seventeenth century, King Lear provides commentary on power dynamics within family and political structures. Moreover, it shows how the use of imagery in a narrative contributes to the overall meaning. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Greek and Roman Mythology, epic myths seen as an attempt to explain the political and religious systems and civilization in order to gain understanding of the field of mythology.
As a collection of the Graeco-Roman world, these myths have become the foundation for many religious practices and can be, found in many classic literary works. Moreover, they continue to...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a didactic play written with the purpose to teach the audience.
As a play of the early-twentieth century, its story and relevance continues to play out in modern movies, musicals, and movie musicals. Moreover, Pygmalion's success can be, attributed to its challenging of a universal truth that in the English-speaking world, there seems...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kate Chopin's The Awakening, one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension.
As a feminist novel of the American South at the end of the nineteenth century, The Awakening highlights individual, expression and freedom and what, the desire for it can cost the person, who wants it. Moreover, Chopin was, reviled and ostracized...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas More's Utopia, originally written in Latin in 1516 and considered a great political and philosophical satire.
As a rhetorical work from the early 16th century, there has been much debate amongst scholars on what More's intentions were for writing. Moreover, Utopia makes a mirror so that readers may be able to see themselves more clearly and more realistically....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by H. G. Wells, whose science fiction pioneered society's ideas of the future. Titles in this study guide include Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and Tono-Bungay.
As a chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I, Wells took the ideas and fears that haunted the minds of this age and gave them symbolic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the bestselling novels of all time, and heralded by readers, everywhere as The Great American Novel.
As a novel of the Great Depression era, Gone with the Wind is a coming-of-age story of a spoiled daughter of a plantation owner set during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Moreover, Mitchell...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry.
As one of the most well-known works of early Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is one of the earliest records of standard Old English. Moreover, this epic is, studied for its use of fusing pagan and Christian elements through the lens of a hero's struggles. This...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, believed by many readers to be, based on the true story of a real-life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.
As a novel of the eighteenth-century, Robinson Crusoe sparked the movement of realistic fiction as a literary genre and led to the rise in publication of castaway novels. Moreover, the book has gone on to become one of the most broadly...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential figures in psychology and founder of psychoanalysis. Titles in this study guide include The Interpretation of Dreams, Studies in Hysteria, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Totem and Taboo.
As a collection of psychological studies, these works, led to and explain, Freud's theory of psychoanalysis....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emile Zola's Germinal, a classic piece of literature, due to its historically factual description of the class differentiation in France, during the 1800s.
As a nineteenth century fictional documentation of France, Germinal describes the impact of class differentiation on a striking coal miner's family. Moreover, it outlines and highlights the mistreatment of the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, the gripping third installment of kingship and rebellion.
As a detail rich history of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare skillfully combines history and comedy, moving from intense battle scenes of kings to simple scenes of country life. Moreover, his compelling themes of power struggle and burdensome royal life are demonstrated...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, thought to be a trailblazer for other books of its time and inspired by the great novelists: Francois Rabelais, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, and Robert Burton.
As a nine-volume novel of the 18th-century, Tristram Shandy was ahead of its time, for its use of humor and satire and stories about scandalous and taboo topics....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident, said to be one of the greatest Western novels ever written.
As a classic novel set in 1885 but written in 1938, The Ox-Bow Incident draws parallels between Nazi brutality and the vigilantes showcased in the novel in order to communicate unjust violence can occur anywhere at any time. Moreover, the novel serves as a great...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Frank Norris's The Octopus, a novel based on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880.
As a powerful work of fiction, The Octopus tells of the conflict between a railway company and ranchers in a fight for land rights. Moreover, Norris's novel serves as a great example of romanticism, as he navigates the metaphor between an octopus and monopolization. This Bright Notes Study...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's The Sonnets, which remains to be, one of the most influential verse collections in English poetry.
As a rebellious collection of rhyme schemes of the Renaissance, The Sonnets often employ a distinct sequence of metaphors or ideas to illustrate society and life. Moreover, Shakespeare explores themes such as lust, misogyny, and infidelity in ways...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Bernard Shaw, who is second only to Shakespeare in the eyes of British tradition. Titles in this study guide include Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida, The Devil's Disciple, The Man of Destiny, Misalliance, Androcles and the Lion, and Heartbreak House.
As a playwright of...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature.
As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert's work, illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the psychology of his characters and their role in the logical development of his works, which marked the beginning of a new age in French...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Eliot, who developed the method of psychological analysis in modern fiction. Titles in this study guide include Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
As a revolutionary voice of literary realism and psychological insight of the nineteenth century, Eliot's books were, considered intellectual art with a focus on the importance of mundane life. Moreover,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations.
As a tragedy of the seventeenth century, Othello's performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was, inspired by English, French, and Italian works, but Othello was primarily,...