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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 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.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, speculated to be one of the last plays he ever wrote as well as the most compressed.
As a dramatic work of the early seventeenth century, it has heavy elements of masque, which includes singing, dancing, supernatural machinery, and a general feeling of unreality. Moreover, The Tempest covers themes regarding the soul and the...
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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 selected works by John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. Titles in this study guide include Annus Mirabilis, Upon The Death Of Lord Hastings, Absalom And Achitophel, The Medal, Religio Laici, The Hind And The Panther, To Anne Killigrew, A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast, The Wild Gallant, The Rival Ladies, and The Indian Queen.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alan Paton, whose wide knowledge of the Union of South Africa culture inspired much of his work. Titles in this study guide include Too Late the Phalarope, Cry, the Beloved Country, and A Troubled Land by Alan Paton.
As a collection of mid-twentieth-century novels, Paton's work offers incredibly realistic descriptions of existing cities and people...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespear's As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's "great" or "middle" comedies.
As a satirical tale of pastoral romance, As You Like It examines the cruelties and corruption of court life and love. Moreover, Shakespeare amusingly weaves a tale of love manifested in varied forms but targets the main theme of "love at first sight" through his playful imagery...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published first in installments between 1837 and 1839 in the literary magazine, Bentley's Miscellany.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, Oliver Twist exposes the unromantic truth of being a criminal and the ruthless treatment of London orphans during this time. Moreover, the novel contains themes that are still prevalent in today's...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for socialist and communist systems, including the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. These several philosophers are, recognized for creating socioeconomic analysis to view social conflict and class relations.
As ideologies of the nineteenth-century, they helped to develop, inspire, and revolutionize elements of the labor and socialist movements and became the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aeschylus, the ancient greek playwright. Titles in this study guide include The Suppliant Maids, The Persians, The Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, The Eumenides, and The Libation Bearers.
As the world's first great dramatist, Aeschylus became, known as "the father of tragedy." Aeschylus greatly influenced Greek tragedies by expanding...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for B. F. Skinner's Walden Two, the behavioral psychologist's only published attempt at fiction.
As a novel of the 1940s, Walden Two has been thought of as science fiction due to the fact that science-based methods of modifying human behavior did not yet exist. Moreover, its controversial discussion of the rejection of free will can baffle readers. This Bright Notes...
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Titles in this study guide include The Flies, No Exit, Dirty Hands, The Roads to Freedom, Being and Nothingness, The Wall, Nausea, The Childhood Of A Leader, and Existentialism.
As a French philosopher and writer of the twentieth-century, Sartre was a foremost supporter of Marxism, sociology, and critical theory. Moreover, Sartre was a central figure in the philosophy of existentialism. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day. Titles in this study guide include Faustus, Tamburlaine, Jew of Malta, and Edward II.
As Shakespeare's most important predecessor and influencer of English drama, Marlowe's plays are most known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Moreover, Marlowe...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Willa Cather. Titles in this study guide include My Antonia, O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, One Of Ours, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
As an author of twentieth-century literature, Cather wrote about pioneer farming and post-World War I pessimism. Moreover, her work had a characteristic style and contained themes like idealism and closeness...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as "indisputably the greatest whaling novel."
As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain's expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses allusion, simile, and metaphor to showcase themes such as revenge,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, published in 1859 and regarded as his best work.
As a philosophical novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel tells the story of an abusive father and his son who fell in love with a girl of a lower social class. Moreover, Meredith uses intellectualism, satire, and poetry to explore human motive and rationalization....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, a short story written during the Civil War.
As a work of patriotic literature, The Man Without a Country bolstered support across the U.S. for the Union in the North. Moreover, Hale uses irony, mystery, and realism to tell the gripping story of a man who feels seemingly no patriotism or connection to his country...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Henry James, a renowned American-British author. Titles in this study guide include The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller.
As an author of the nineteenth-century, James's writing bridged the gap between, literary realism and literary modernism. Moreover, James is considered a master of ghost stories, and the Turn of the Screw remains one of the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering an in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for analyzing works of fiction, including the analysis of plot, theme, style, and tone.
As students of literature, understanding the tools, and methods for understanding fiction is critical to becoming better readers, writers, and thinkers. Knowledge of the components of fiction, the various structures of fiction writing, and the literary devices used, all enhance...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
As a novel of the Civil Rights era, To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of a lawyer, who represented an African American accused of rape. Moreover, Lee weaves the theme of honor throughout the book and explores human dignity through her debut novel. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lee's classic...
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