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  1. Foolish Roderigo is an instrumental tool in Iago’s plan to bring Othello to ruin. Throughout the play, we see Roderigo characterized primarily by his weakness. Iago easily riles up his anger by reminding him that Othello, a Moor and therefore an outsider in Venetian society, is set to marry Desdemona.

  2. The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, dating back to the 8th century BCE. The poem primarily focuses on the Trojan War and the heroic deeds and tragic fate of Achilles, the mightiest warrior of the Greek army.

    • The Search For Redemption
    • The Love and Tension Between Fathers and Sons
    • The Intersection of Political Events and Private Lives
    • The Persistence of The Past
    • Male Friendship
    • Religion
    • Racism and Ethnicity

    Amir’s quest to redeem himself makes up the heart of the novel. Early on, Amir strives to redeem himself in Baba’s eyes, primarily because his mother died giving birth to him, and he feels responsible. To redeem himself to Baba, Amir thinks he must win the kite-tournament and bring Baba the losing kite, both of which are inciting incidents that set...

    Amir has a very complex relationship with Baba, and as much as Amir loves Baba, he rarely feels Baba fully loves him back. Amir’s desire to win Baba’s love consequently motivates him not to stop Hassan’s rape. Baba has his own difficulty connecting with Amir. He feels guilty treating Amir well when he can’t acknowledge Hassan as his son. As a resul...

    The major events of the novel, while framed in the context of Amir’s life, follow Afghanistan’s transitions as well. In Amir’s recollections of his childhood, we see the calm state of Kabul during the monarchy, the founding of the republic, and then watch as the Soviet invasion and infighting between rival Afghan groups ruin the country. These even...

    All the characters in the novel feel the influence of the past, but none so much as Amir and Sohrab. In Sohrab’s case, his past has been so traumatizing that it affects all his behavior. The prolonged physical and sexual abuse he endured makes him flinch anytime Amir touches him. He also fears the abandonment he experienced when his parents died so...

    The Kite Runnerfocuses nearly exclusively on male relationships. While the relationship between father and son is important to the novel, male friendship is central as well. Amir’s relationship with Hassan is the most obvious example. Though the two are constant companions, Amir’s superior social status causes a power difference between them, which...

    The Kite Runnerillustrates the many ways characters practice Islam, and how a single religion can take on starkly different forms. Baba is not a religious man, and he openly mocks and questions the hypocrisy of Muslim leaders. Amir’s lack of religious upbringing later serves him well when it allows him to look past Soraya’s sexual history in a way ...

    Throughout The Kite Runner, racism is depicted both overtly and more subtly and systemically. Assef, the most overtly racist character in the novel, directly justifies his rape of Hassan by saying, “It’s just a Hazara.” Later, Assef compares Hazaras to garbage littering the “beautiful mansion” of Afghanistan, and he takes it upon himself to “take o...

  3. Summary: Book 10. Socrates has now completed the main argument of The Republic; he has defined justice and shown it to be worthwhile. He turns back to the postponed question concerning poetry about human beings. In a surprising move, he banishes poets from the city. He has three reasons for regarding the poets as unwholesome and dangerous.

  4. Hamlet. The Prince of Denmark, the title character, and the protagonist. About thirty years old at the start of the play, Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet, and the nephew of the present king, Claudius.

  5. Summary. Published in the volume Men and Women, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” takes its title and its inspiration from the song sung by Edgar in William Shakespeare’s King Lear, when he pretends to be a madman. “Childe” is an archaic aristocratic title indicating a young man who has not yet been knighted.

  6. Khalil Harris. Previous Next. Although he dies in chapter two, Khalil plays an important symbolic role in The Hate U Give. Specifically, Khalil’s murder dramatizes the process of dehumanization and demonization of young black men in the wider news media that allows them to become scapegoats for the violence in their communities.

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