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