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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 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 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 the most inventive and highly-regarded poets of the Victorian era, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. These prolific poets are recognized for their distinctive responses to the tremendous social, political, and religious upheavals of their era.
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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 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 JRR Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of one of the most well-known series in the world-Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
As an epic novel of the mid twentieth century, Tolkien used elements of Nordic folk, Christianity, and realism to create the Middle-earth world. Moreover, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was written in long-hand, revised, and then the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth.
As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, The Good Earth was, inspired by Buck's experience living in China, during the Boxer rebellion with her missionary parents. Moreover, the novel shows the author's intense interest for people through description of the cycle of life. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of...