Jekyll & Hyde
Macbeth
Frankenstein
Themes and Heroes
Random Questions and/or Ms. Schillaci's Thoughts on Life
100
He is our point of view narrator, and an old friend of Dr. Jekyll.
Who is Mr. Utterson.
100
These are Duncan's sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
100
He is Frankenstein's best friend, and the person whom Frankenstein is accused of killing.
Who is Henry Clerval?
100
This is considered to be Macbeth's fatal flaw.
What is ambition?
100
This is the state in which Ms. Schillaci attended college.
What is Minnesota?
200
This is the socially structured time period during which this novella was written.
What is the Victorian Era?
200
This was the cause of the execution of the first Thane of Cawdor.
What is treason?
200
This literary movement is characterized by a respect for nature, appreciating passion over reason, a disdain for "book learning," and a love of childhood.
What is Romanticism?
200
Beowulf is an example of this kind of protagonist?
What is an epic hero?
200
Siward and his son, Young Siward, come from this country to help defeat Macbeth.
What is England?
300
This is the man who died after seeing Hyde transform into Jekyll.
Who is Dr. Lanyon?
300
When Lady Macbeth asks mortal spirits to "unsex her," she is really asking for the power to be this kind of person.
What is a cruel person?
300
She was 21 when she wrote "Frankenstein."
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the theme of being kind to all living things is made when the Mariner kills this.
What is the albatross?
300
This is the term for the pause (for taking a breath) in the middle of the line in orally-recited poems like "Beowulf."
What is a caesura?
400
This is the style of writing in which Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is an offshoot of Romanticism.
What is the Gothic?
400
It's the reason that Macbeth believes he won't be killed by Macduff.
What is being not of woman born?
400
The monster says he will do this after leaving Walton and the dead Dr. Frankenstein.
What is kill himself?
400
The monster in Frankenstein suffers because he feels this.
What is loneliness?
400
This is the only bone Ms. Schillaci has ever broken.
What is the pinkie finger?
500
This is the initial reason why Dr. Jekyll, as a boy, felt out of place in Victorian Society.
What is Jekyll's happy demeanor?
500
In Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow" speech, this is what the "brief candle" symbolizes.
What is life?
500
The DeLacey family reads this story of the fight between God and Satan, and unwittingly teaches the monster to speak.
What is "Paradise Lost"?
500
At the end of Frankenstein, Walton proves that he has more humanity than ambition by deciding to do what?
What is turn his ship around and go back to England?
500
According to Ms. Schillaci, this moving starring Kal Penn and John Cho is the best movie ever to be filmed about New Jersey.
What is "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle"?
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