Villains and Heroes
What is Frankenstein's Creature?
Rain and flood causes a family of migrants to shelter in a barn.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
This novel is set in Nigeria, which is set on the precipice of change with the advent of African Imperialism.
In this play, a girl rebels against her uncle's orders, which leads to her execution.
What is Antigone?
In this novel, a young woman break social convention by refusing multiple marriage proposals.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
Who is Beowulf?
This novel's principal romance is ended by a rabies infection.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
The isolated island setting of the novel creates the conditions in which a group of of boys unleash their inner savagery.
What is Lord of the Flies?
In this bildungsroman novel a girl realizes the racial inequality in her town when her father defends an African-American man in court.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
In this novella, animals on a farm carry out a revolution and set up their own form of government.
What is Animal Farm?
A man whose beauty and youth were captured in a portrait, but the portrait then absorbed his sin and decay.
Who is Dorian Gray?
This novel ends with a man performing a mercy killing on his best friend to save him from a more gruesome death.
What is Of Mice and Men?
In this play the stormy moors of England serve as a pathetic fallacy for the mind of the former king who wanders them.
What is King Lear?
In this play, the death of a young man's father is the catalyst for his mother's remarriage, his depression, and ultimately, his quest for revenge.
What is Hamlet?
In this novel, a woman in a dystopian society works secretly to escape from strict hierarchy and lays the path for revolution.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
A vindictive old lady who trains her ward to break men's hearts out of bitterness for being deserted on her wedding day.
Who is Miss Havisham?
This man dies because he refuses to sign his name on an untrue statement.
John Proctor from The Crucible
In this novella, the sea and its challenges serve as a religious allegory for the protagonist's journey.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
In this play, two young lovers marry, despite the feud of their families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
In this novel, the protagonist dislikes much of what he terms the "phoniness" of society, but wants to be an influence that is capable of recuing others.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
The captain of a whaling ship who becomes consumed by his quest for revenge
Who is Captain Ahab?
This novel ends with the protagonist realizing that he loves Big Brother.
What is 1984?
In this novella, a group of Dutch travel the Niger river to find a rogue officer who has sunk into inner darkness.
What is Heart of Darkness?
In this novel, a figure returns who was killed as a baby, but this time in the form of an adult woman who acts as a consumptive force in her mother's life.
What is Beloved?
What is The Scarlet Letter?