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This book takes place in two very different houses on the moors of England.
What is Wuthering Heights
He's a younger man who loves his woman for who she is.
Who is Teacake?
This play develops the theme that obsession with revenge ultimately leads to madness.
What is Hamlet?
This symbol, found in both Hamlet and Wuthering Heights, stands for the protagonist's inability to escape the past.
What are ghosts?
In Frankenstein, the monster first kills this person.
This play takes places in Pittsburgh in the 1950's.
This character hung herself (ironically with bed sheets) when she found out she'd been sleeping with her own son.
Who is Jocasta?
This play develops the theme that Victorian social rules and expectations are tedious and emasculating.
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, this symbolized Janie's sexual awakening.
What is a pear tree?
Hindley Earnshaw's son who is mistreated by Hindley and Heathcliff.
Who is Hareton Earnshaw?
This novel's setting is characterized by grayness, death, and decay.
What is The Road?
This character just wants to have some fun with reanimation.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
These novels and plays (3) address the theme that women are often at the mercy of the men in their lives
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God, A Doll's House, and Hamlet?
In Fences, this represented racism and disillusionment.
What is baseball?
Oedipus kills his father in this location.
What is the crossroads of 3 roads?
This novel's setting included a ship, an isolated apartment, a small farm, the mountains, and the protagonist's childhood home.
What is Frankenstein?
This character's internal disease is juxtaposed with his outward respectability.
Who is Dr. Rank?
These plays and novels (at least 5) develops the theme that a parent's negative experiences and perceptions can negatively impact the lives of their children.
What is Fences, Wuthering Heights, the Importance of Being Earnest, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Oedipus, and A Doll's House?
In Wuthering Heights, this symbolized the wild nature of love.
What is the moors?
In Oedipus, the Oracle of Delphi tells Creon that the only way to get rid of the plague in Thebes is to do this.
This play takes place exclusively in a palace.
What is Oedipus?
These characters from different novels or plays (one blind and one injured) represent God's (or the gods) judgment on the deeds of man.
Who are Gabriel from Fences and Tiresias from Oedipus?
This novel addresses the themes of sacrificial love and discarding the past for the present.
What is The Road?
In The Road, this symbolized humanity's innate and primal desire to destroy itself.
What are the cannibals?
These are the people Frankenstein's monster killed in order.
What is William, Henry, and Elizabeth?