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What is the purpose of Owl Eyes in Great Gatsby?

What reference is Shakespeare making in Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth?

The meaning of "The rest is silence" in "Hamlet"

What does the phrase "the silent imputation of parsimony" mean in The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry?

What kind of name is Vardaman?

What does Holofernes deer epitaph from Love's Labour's Lost mean?

Ray Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship. Is he right?

What is the significance of the words of the prophets being written on the subway wall?

Did Thomas Wolfe keep a diary?

Does Portia subconsciously influence Bassanio's choice of casket?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what does "let the dead bury the dead" mean?

What is the name of the writing style in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens? Why is that style used?

Is Frou-Frou's death a foreshadowing of Anna's in Anna Karenina?

What does this 'Each that we lose takes part of us' quote from Emily Dickinson mean?

What does the line "The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them." mean in The Gifts Of The Magi?

What concept of love does Tolstoy suggest in Anna Karenina?

What is the message of Poe's "Eleonora"?

What was the original "The Sound of Silence" about?

Why are the magicians who captured Morpheus "rubbish"?

Why does Night say Desire and Morpheus are alike?

Why is The Dreaming a simple place compared to Hell?

Terms for structural analysis of a non-linear narrative

What are genres? Are they a useful concept?

At which pole did Byrd's adventure take place?

Could Levin have a friend like Oblonsky in real life?

Understanding passage from Scarlet Letter about "keeping with the scene"?

What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and Juliet?

What is the quote "We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe" trying to convey?

Why is the future "a safe, sterile laboratory"?

What is the distinction between literature and genre? Is such a distinction useful?