A Flashcards
Horacio (friend of title character)
Hamlet
Gertrude (queen of Denmark and title character’s mother)
Hamlet
Ophelia drowns
Hamlet
Title character mistakenly stabs Polonius, thinking it’s Claudius
Hamlet
Title character jokes with Claudius about where he has hidden Polonius’s body
Hamlet
Creon (leader of Thebes)
Oedipus
Jocasta (mother and alter wife of title character)
Oedipus
Title character vows to find murderer of former king of Thebes
Oedipus
Title character asks Creon to ask an oracle at Delphi about a plague in Thebes
Oedipus
Title character resolves to never return to Corinth
Oedipus
Duncan (king of Scotland)
Macbeth
Banquo (friend of title character)
Macbeth
First scene is of a meeting between the three Witches
Macbeth
Title character kills King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself
Macbeth
Title character receives title of “Thane of Cawdor”
Macbeth
Captain Ahab (captain of the Pequod, lost a leg from title animal)
Moby Dick
Queequeg (cannibal tribesman from Rokovoko)
Moby Dick
Protagonist has to share a bed with Queequeg in an inn
Moby Dick
Starts with “call me Ishmael.”
Moby Dick
Ahab will give the first man to spot the title animal a doubloon
Moby Dick
Agamemnon (king of Mycenae)
Iliad
Patroclus (companion of Achilles)
Iliad
Takes place during the Trojan War (Trojans against Achaeans)
Iliad
Patroclus is killed in Book 16
Iliad
George Wilson (mechanic, kills titular character)
The Great Gatsby
Jordan Baker (Nick’s girlfriend)
The Great Gatsby
Myrtle Wilson says she lives in the “Valley of Ashes”
The Great Gatsby
Titular character and Daisy hit Myrtle with their car
The Great Gatsby
Nick returns to the Midwest at the end
The Great Gatsby
Dulcinea del Toboso (unseen character, believed to be a beautiful princess by titular character)
Don Quixote
Alonso Quijano (real name of protagonist, who invents the titular name for himself after falling into insanity)
Don Quixote
Protagonist goes mad and decides to be a knight-errant
Don Quixote
Protagonist asks Sancho Panza to be his squire
Don Quixote
Titular character is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon
Don Quixote
Mercutio (member of House Escalus, close friend of first titular character)
Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet (patriarch of Capulet family, father of second titular character)
Romeo and Juliet
Conflict between Montague and Capulet families is central to the plot
Romeo and Juliet
First titular character kills Count Paris
Romeo and Juliet
First titular character sneaks into the Capulet orchard
Romeo and Juliet
Harry Bailey (“Host”, travels with the pilgrims)
The Canterbury Tales
Madame Eglantine (“Prioress”)
The Canterbury Tales
Framing narrative is that the tales are part of a story telling contest between pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
Made up of multiple “tales” from the pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
Story starts in April
The Canterbury Tales
Raphael (angel sent to Eden to strengthen Adam and Eve against Satan)
Paradise Lost
Michael (archangel sent to Eden, militarily skilled)
Paradise Lost
Satan and other fallen angels get banished to Hell (Tartarus)
Paradise lost
Adam gets a vision of the future from Archangel Michael
Paradise lost
A war in Heaven of Satan’s rebellion against the angels occurs
Paradise Lost
Katharine Smith (Winston’s wife, she and Winston are very distant)
1984
Syme (Winston’s coworker, becomes an unperson)
1984
Protagonist works at ministry of Truth to rewrite historical records
1984
O’Brien is revealed to be a member of the Thought Police
1984
Protagonist reads The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Goldstein
1984
Cassio (titular character’s loyal captain)
Othello
Brabantio (Venetian senator and Desdemona’s father)
Othello
Titular character kills his wife by smothering her with a pillow
Othello
Brabantio accuses title character of seducing Desdemona with witchcraft
Othello
Celebration in second act because a storm has destroyed the enemy Turkish fleet
Othello
Penelope (queen of Ithaca and wife to titular character)
Odyssey
Phemius (Ithacan bard)
Odyssey
Begins after the end of the Trojan War
Odyssey
Title character assumed dead while on his decade long journey back to Ithaca
Odyssey
Title character’s wife and son have to deal with a group of suitors who want the wife’s hand in marriage
Odyssey
Hester Prynne (protagonist)
The Scarlet Letter
Roger Chillingworth (husband of protagonist)
The Scarlet Letter
Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Scarlet Letter
Protagonist is forced to wear the letter “A” for adultery
The Scarlet Letter
Protagonist’s daughter Pearl has a fascination with the letter A
The Scarlet Letter
Prospero (former Duke of Milan)
The Tempest
Miranda (Prospero’s daughter)
The Tempest
Main character was usurped by his brother Antonio to be Duke of Milan
The Tempest
Most of the story takes place on a remote island
The Tempest
Main character uses his magical powers to wreck a ship carrying his brother Antonio on it
The Tempest
Elizabeth Bennet (protagonist, pushed to marry for convenience but wants to marry for love)
Pride and Prejudice
Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (Love interest of protagonist, owner of Pemberley estate)
Pride and Prejudice
Protagonist and love interest have to overcome the titular concepts
Pride and Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and prejudice
Darcy proposes to Elizabeth at the end of the novel
Pride and prejudice
Goneril (Titular character’s eldest daughter)
King Lear
Cordelia (youngest and favorite daughter of titular character)
King Lear
Based on a legendary king of the Britons
King Lear
The titular monarch divides his power and land amongst his three daughters
King Lear
Title monarch disinherits his youngest daughter
King Lear
Edward Rochester (master of Thornfield hall, eventual husband of title character)
Jane Eyre
Sarah Reed (adopted the titular character, also her aunt)
Jane Eyre
Focuses on titular character’s childhood, adulthood, and romance with the mysterious Rochester
Jane Eyre
Main character orphaned as a child due to parents dying of typhus
Jane Eyre
Main character enrolled in Lowood Institution, for poor and orphaned girls
Jane Eyre
Juno (goddess with a grudge against the Trojan people)
Aeneid
Cupid (half-brother of title character)
Aeneid
About the title character fleeing the fall of Troy and traveling to Italy
Aeneid
Title character is ancestor to all Romans
Aeneid
Title character and Turnus duel in the last part
Aeneid
Scout Finch (narrator, ages from 6 to 9 in the novel)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bob Ewell (main antagonist, tries to murder narrator and her brother Jem)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression
To Kill a mockingbird
Scout’s father defends a black man accused of rape
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Robinson gets killed while trying to escape from prison
To Kill a Mockingbird
Aunt Polly (title character’s aunt and caretaker)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sid (half brother of title character)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Title character and two of his friends run away to Jackson’s Island to be pirates
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Main character and the friends he ran away with appear at their joint funeral
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Set in St. Petersburg, Missouri
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I. The Burial of the Dead”
The Waste Land
“Shantih shantih shantih” (end of poem)
The Waste Land
“To Carthage then I came / burning burning burning”
The Waste land
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
The waste land
Published in The Dial
The waste land
Blanche DuBois (protagonist)
A streetcar named desire
Stanley Kowalski (husband of protagonist’s sister Stella)
A streetcar named desire
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”
A streetcar named desire
Blanche’s former husband died from suicide
A streetcar named desire
Blanche takes a bath after suffering a mental breakdown
A streetcar named desire
Giovanni Malatesta (murderer of his wife and the man she was cheating with)
Divine comedy
Geryon (winged creature that protagonist and his guide ride on to continue their journey)
Divine comedy
First book ends with protagonists encountering Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscarot
Divine comedy
A river of boiling blood and fire called Phlegethon
Divine Comedy
Begins with protagonist encountering a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf
Divine comedy
Fantine (working-class Parisian woman)
Les Miserables
Cosette (illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Tholomyes)
Les Miserables
Friends of the ABC: association of revolutionary students
Les miserables
Begins with protagonist being released from the Bagne of Toulon
Les Miserables
Ends with the 1832 June rebellion of Paris
Les Miserables
Phoebe (younger sister of protagonist)
The catcher in the rye
Mr Antolini (protagonist’s former English teacher)
The catcher in the rye
Protagonist stops to buy a record (“Little Shirley Beans”) for his sister
The catcher in the rye
Protagonist accidentally leaves the fencing team’s equipment on the subway
The catcher in the rye
Protagonist agrees to have a prostitute named Sunny visit his hotel room
The catcher in the rye
Jim Casy (former preacher)
The grapes of wrath
Uncle John (older brother of Pa Joad)
The grapes of wrath
About the Joad family moving from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression
The grapes of wrath
The central family travels west on Route 66
The grapes of wrath
Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison
The grapes of wrath
Stephen Dedalus (alter ego of author and recurring character in author’s works)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Leopold Bloom (protagonist)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Stephen teaches a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus
Ulysses (Joyce)
Bloom attends Paddy Dignam’s funeral
Ulysses (Joyce)
Bloom attempts to place an ad in the Freeman’s Journal
Ulysses (Joyce)
Charles Marlow (captain of a boat for an ivory trading company)
Heart of Darkness
Kurtz (ivory trader)
Heart of darkness
The natives worship Kurtz
Heart of darkness
A Russian wanderer boards the steamboat
Heart of darkness
The steamboat gets attacked by a barrage of arrows during a foggy morning
Heart of darkness
Cunegonde (In love with titular character)
Candide
Cacambo (Spanish-Peruvian, title character’s valet)
Candide
Title character gets captured by Bulgar (Prussian) forces and gets coerced into military service
Candide
Title character escapes the army and makes his way to Holland
Candide
Pangloss, the titular character, and a sailor reach Lisbon and get hit by several natural disasters
Candide
Hrothgar (king of the Danes)
Beowulf
Grendel (monster and one of the antagonists)
Beowulf
Title character tears Grendel’s arm from his shoulder
Beowulf
A dragon goes on a rampage after finding out its golden cup was stolen
Beowulf
Grendel’s mother lives under a lake
Beowulf
Widow Douglas (takes title character in and tries to civilize him)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Miss Watson (sister of widow)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title character reunites with Jim on Jackson’s Island
Adventures of huckleberry Finn
Title character and Jim get swindled by two men claiming to be a King and a Duke
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grangerford family is engaged in a blood feud with the Shepherdson family
Adventures of huckleberry Finn
Theseus (Duke of Athens)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hermia (daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander)
A midsummer night’s dream
Pyramus and Thisbe is performed in Athens
A midsummer night’s dream
Theseus and Hippolyta have a wedding
A midsummer nights dream
Lysander and Hermia escape into the forest away from Theseus
A midsummer nights dream
Emily Webb (main character, wife of George Gibbs)
Our town
Frank Gibbs (father of George, town doctor)
Our town
Takes place in Grovers Corners from 1901 to 1913
Our town
Emily and George marry in act ii
Our town
Simon struggles with alcoholism
Our town
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky (title character cheats with him)
Anna karenina
Kitty and her mother travel to a German spa so Kitty can get well
Anna karenina
Prince Stephan ”Stiva” Arkadyevich Oblosnky
Anna karenina
Title character is dependent on morphine to help her sleep
Anna karenina
Vronsky rides his mare Frou-Frou too hard
Anna karenina
Luzhin (engaged to Dunya)
Crime and punishment
Razumikhin (former law student and friend of protagonist)
Crime and punishment
Protagonist lives in a tiny rented room in St Petersburg
Crime and punishment
Protagonist visits an elderly pawnbroker on the pretext of pawning a watch
Crime and punishment
Protagonist gets a letter that says his sister Dunya will marry a wealthy suitor named Luzhin
Crime and punishment
Charon (mans the ferry that takes the protagonist across the river Acheron)
Inferno
Pluto/Plutus (guards the fourth circle - greed)
Inferno
The city of Dis contains Lower Hell in its walls
Inferno
Protagonist faints during the passage across the Acheron and wakes when they get to the other side
Inferno
The Harrowing of Hell - Jesus taking a few biblical figures from hell into Heaven
Inferno
Friday - native Caribbean who becomes friend/servant to title character
Robinson Crusoe
Xury (servant to title character, later given to the Portuguese sea captain as an indentured servant)
Robinson Crusoe
Title character and Friday fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees
Robinson Crusoe
Title character teaches Friday English and converts him to christianity
Robinson Crusoe
Title character gets enslaved by a Moor but escapes two years later
Robinson Crusoe
Count Pyotr Kirillovich “Pierre” Bezukhov (the central character)
War and Peace
Bilibin (a clever diplomat)
War and peace
Begins at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer
War and peace
Contains 24 philosophical chapters about the author’s comments and views
War and peace
Petya manages to catch a biscuit thrown from a balcony window by the Czar
War and peace
Takes place during the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War
The charge of the light brigade
“Charging an army, while / All the world wonder’d:”
The charge of the light brigade
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”
The charge of the light brigade
“How they rode onward”
The charge of the light brigade
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”
The charge of the light brigade
Bernard Marx (sleep-learning specialist and Alpha-Plus)
Brave New World
Mustapha Mond (Resident world controller of Western Europe)
Brave New world
Bernard’s boss contemplates sending him to Iceland because of his non comformity
Brave New world
Bernard takes a holiday with Lenina to a Savage Reservation in New Mexico
Brave New world
John is only able to articulate his feelings in terms of Shakespeare drama
Brave new world
Jose Arcadio buendia (founder of Macondo, patriarch of family)
One hundred years of solitude
Ursula Iguaran (matriarch of Buendia family)
One hundred years of solitude
Aureliano joins a civil war against the Conservative government
One hundred years of solitude
The Buendia family is destroyed by a windstorm at the end of the novel
One hundred years of solitude
Aureliano spends the rest of his life making tiny goldfish in his workshop
One hundred years of solitude
Robert walton (ship captain who gets told the whole story)
Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza (adopted sister and wife of title character)
Frankenstein
Title character studies at the university of Ingolstadt in Germany
Frankenstein
A character promises to live with his lover forever in the South American wilderness
Frankenstein
Title character’s mother dies of scarlet fever
Frankenstein
Chaplain Tappman (Anabaptist minister)
Catch-22
Milo Minderbinder (mess officer at the base)
Catch-22
Mostly takes place on the island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean Sea
Catch-22
Main character retreats under the guise of having a chronic liver condition to avoid flying combat missions
Catch-22
Main character frequently causes panic by starting rumors and orchestrating events that keep him out of battle
Catch-22
Colonel Cathcart is obsessed with maintaining an image of extreme masculinity
Catch-22
D’Artagnan (wants to take on the title job)
The three musketeers
Milady de Winter (enemy spy)
The three muskateers
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are the title characters
The three musketeers
D’Artagnan gets beat unconscious with a cooking pot and a metal tong
The three musketeers
D’Artagnan offends the title characters and must fight in a duel with each of them
The three musketeers
Simon Legree (main antagonist and slaveowner)
Uncle toms cabin
Eliza (slave and personal maid to Ms Shelby)
Uncle Toms Cabin
Arthur shelby loses his farm because of his debts
Uncle toms cabin
Title character refuses Legree’s order to whip his fellow slave
Uncle Toms cabin
Eva experiences a vision of Heaven before she dies
Uncle Toms Cabin
Eliza Doolittle (flower shop owner, gets made to “talk like a lady”)
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins (linguist)
Pygmalion
Pickering came from India to meet Higgins, and Higgins was gonna go to India to meet Pickering
Pygmalion
The Eynsford-Hills are living in “genteel poverty”
Pygmalion
A character is described as the “most original moralist in England” by another character
Pygmalion
