The Crucible
"Because it is my name!"
John Proctor
"O Brave New World"
John the Savage
“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
The Creature
"You have offended neither the gods nor your fathers."
The Priestess.
The Cost of Happiness.
Brave New World
“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you."
Elizabeth Proctor
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
John the Savage
“Solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, death-like solitude.”
Victor Frankenstein
"Tortoise had no wings, but he went to the birds and asked to be allowed to go with them."
Fate and Free Will.
Things Fall Apart
"And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot!"
Abigail Williams
I am I, and I wish I weren't."
Bernard Marx
"... falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins."
Justine
Never kill a man who says nothing."
Uchendu
The Danger of Ideology.
The Crucible
"I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie."
Reverend Hale
"Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one."
Lenina
"I feel my heart grow with enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
Walton
"It pleases me to see a young man like you these days when our youth has gone so soft."
Nwakibie
Ambition and Fallibility
Frankenstein
“You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between."
Judge Danforth
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond
"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"
Elizabeth Frankenstein
"It is very near now... I have felt it."
Okagbue
Literature, Life, and Society.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor.