Hamlet Quotes
Gothic Characters
Themes across texts
Poem's last lines
Gothic Miscellanea
100

Complete the quote: “To be, or not to be…”

“that is the question”

100

Who is influenced by novels in Northanger Abbey?

Catherine Morland

100

Which idea links Mariana and Alone?

Isolation

100

La Belle Dame Sans Merci:

And no birds ......

"sing"

100

Which text opens with a Preface made up of short, aphoristic statements about art?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

200

Who says: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

Marcellus

200

Who remains physically unchanged while morally corrupt?

Dorian Gray

200

Which theme links Northanger Abbey and One Need Not Be a Chamber to be Haunted

Fear existing in the mind, Imagination

200

Superstition

Yield to peace the mourning ...!

"day"

200

What does Oscar Wilde argue art should not be?

Moral / didactic
(“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.”)

300

What does Hamlet call Denmark?

“A prison”

300

Who murders the woman he loves?

The speaker in Porphyria’s Lover

300

Which theme links La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Dorian Gray?

Destructive beauty

300

Alone

"Of a demon in my ...-"

"view"

300

Name one flower that has specific symbolic meaning in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Lily, Rose, Daisy, Poppy, Laburnum...

400

Complete the quote:

"A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts ....."

"coward"

400

Who is abandoned and trapped in longing

Mariana

400

Name 3 "damsels in distress" in the texts you've studied

Sibyl Vane, Mariana, Porphyria, Catherine Morland

400

Porphyria's Lover

"And yet God has not said a .....!"

"word"

400

Is it Catherine Morland or John Thorpe that loves the book "The Mysteries of Udolpho"

Catherine Morland

500

Complete the quote:

"But break, my heart, for I must...."

"hold my tongue"

500

Who is destroyed by a supernatural femme fatale?

The knight in La Belle Dame Sans Merci

500

Which ideas connect The Picture of Dorian Gray and Porphyria's Lover 

Obsession, Possessiveness over Beauty, Beautiful domestic setting covering ugly moral reality

500

One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted

"O’erlooking a superior spectre –

Or .....–"

"more"

500

In what ways to both Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen "break the 4th wall" in their novels (speak directly to the reader)

Oscar Wilde - in his Preface

Jane Austen - in her "defense of the novel" in Ch 5

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