This extreme loyalty is shown by two characters. ... These characters demonstrate beautifully the importance of loyalty, for they are both willing to sacrifice themselves for their lord. ... Wiglaf is obviously seen as a hero in this story, everyone who reads this story looks back with great respect for the character of Wiglaf. ... This form of loyalty is the greatest measure of honor that could be shown. ...

• Word Count: 594
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

There are many characters where lonliness is evident throughout parts or all of their life. But all of these characters who appear to be lonely only tend to play a minor role in the story. ... Characters like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the opposite of the two main characters, George and Lennie. ... There are really no other main characters besides George and Lennie. ... The issue is morals, if there is such a thing as a moraly correct way to kill somebody thats how George did it, because during that time period in America there w...

• Word Count: 890
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Here, in the companionship of Swift, Gay, Bolingbroke, and Arbuthnot, Pope was granted some respite from the venomous attacks upon his person and character, the history of which virtually makes up the rest of his recorded biography. Apart from a deep attachment to Martha Blount, a Catholic neighbor sympathetic to Pope's aspirations and literary ideals, his life was a constant endeavor to stem the materialistic current of his times by iterating in polished and penetrating couplets a theocentric humanism which espoused the virtues of self-discipline, the recognition of metaphysical values,...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate