WHAT PLAY IS THIS FROM?
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
The Importance of Being Earnest
The man who pretended to be Ernest Worthing in order to win the heart of Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest
"I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer."
Nora, A Doll's House
Despite what you may acquire in life, it is your deeds that will follow you to the afterlife
Everyman
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
Oedipus Rex
The queen of Thebes, wife and mother to the King in Oedipus Rex
Jocasta
“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
Oedipus, Oedipus Rex
Knowing oneself is more important than anything, even if getting to know oneself is taboo
A Doll's House
“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be.”
Doctor Faustus
The man who lent Nora a large sum of money in A Doll's House
Krogstad
"Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?"
Helmer, A Doll's House
Honestly is the best policy
The Importance of Being Earnest
"Now in good faith, I will not that way.
But and thou wilt murder, or any man kill,
In that I will help thee with a good will!
…
Whether ye have loved me or no,
By Saint John, I will not with thee go."
Everyman
The demon who made a deal with Doctor Faustus, despite the warnings of the good angel
Mephistophilis
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris"
Mephistopheles, Doctor Faustus
One cannot avoid fate
Oedipus Rex
"bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves."
A Doll's House
The character, made to represent something that isn't quite physical,who was too weak to accompany Everyman to the grave
Good Deeds
"That is to thy damnation without lesing,
For my love is contrary to the love everlasting.
But if thou had me loved moderately during,
As, to the poor give part of me,
Then shouldst thou not in this dolour be,
Nor in this great sorrow and care."
Goods, Everyman
Actions have consequences
Doctor Faustus