Summary The Beginning: The Arrival of a Stranger: The story begins in a remote...More
Background: Medea Euripides’ Medea is one of the most powerful and controversial plays in...More
Background The Frogs by Aristophanes is one of the finest examples of ancient Greek...More
Background Seneca’s Phaedra is one of the most famous and influential plays of Roman...More
Background Aeschylus’ Agamemnon is one of the greatest works of ancient Greek tragedy. It...More
Background The Iliad, composed by Homer, is one of the greatest ancient Greek epics....More
Summary The Custom-House and Discovery: The novel begins with a long introduction called The...More
Summary Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell The story begins after a plane...More
Summary Day One Santiago, an old fisherman, has gone 84 days without catching a...More
Summary Scene 1 Introducing the Characters and Struggles Tom, who is both the narrator...More
The poem “Blackberry-Picking” is about a childhood experience that teaches a lesson about life,...More
Plot Summary Act I Overview of the Loman Family and Setting: The play Death...More
Background H. Auden wrote this poem after the death of the famous poet W....More
Part One: Scenes 1-4 The Setting and the Cabot Farmhouse The play begins in...More
Summary We can easily understand the essay Literature and Society through four simple questions:...More
Background T.S. Eliot’s essay Tradition and the Individual Talent was first published in 1919...More
Summary Women’s Glory in Literature vs. Their Degradation in Reality: In this part, Virginia...More
Summary The Nature and Motto of Government: Thoreau begins his essay with a famous...More
The poem “Punishment” is about a young girl who was killed long ago. Her...More
“Digging” is about the poet’s love and respect for his father and grandfather, who...More
The play opens on an August morning in 1896 in a dentist's chamber that...More
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Summary Part 1: The Expectation of Thetis: The poem opens with Thetis, the mother...More
Background: W. H. Auden wrote ““Lullaby”” in 1937, during a tense time between the...More
