Literary Analysis Guides

What is the true price of eternal youth when decoupled from morality? Oscar Wilde’s provocative novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, explores this question through a dark tale shimmering with wit and philosophical paradox. Set in fin-de-siècle London, the narrative follows the captivating Dorian Gray, who, under Lord Henry Wotton’s hedonistic philosophies, wishes for his […]

He’s shady, sentimental, and possesses cufflinks made of human molars. Meyer Wolfsheim is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most unforgettable minor characters in The Great Gatsby. As Jay Gatsby’s business associate and the man rumored to have fixed the 1919 World Series, Wolfsheim represents the dark, criminal underworld tethered to Gatsby’s immense fortune. His appearances

What does survival look like when your identity is forbidden? Margaret Atwood’s harrowing novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, throws us into the oppressive Republic of Gilead through the eyes of Offred, a Handmaid stripped of her past. These 39 The Handmaid’s Tale quotes with page numbers (Anchor Books 1998 ed.) trace her path through state control,