East of Eden
The Handmaid's Tale
Hula
Hamlet (Quotes)
Common Themes
100

The habit that revealed Kathy's weakness/ vulnerability; the only time she was out of control?

Drinking alcohol
100

Who is Offred's husband?

Luke

100

Where the mother and girls stay with the dad is violent.

Mrs. Cooley's

100

"Thou wretched, rash intruding fool."

Hamlet to Polonius

100

What are 5 common themes that exist in literature?

good vs. evil ; country vs. city; nature vs. civilization; individual vs. community; free will vs. fate

200

Two "marked" characters (How?)

Kate (Cathy) and Charles

Mr. Edwards beats Cathy.  Charles has an accident with a crow bar.

200

What happened to Offred's daughter?

She was taken from Offred when she and her family tried to escape Gilead.

200

Father dressed like this and scared his family...

He wore a gorilla mask.

200

"She chanted snatches of old lauds as one incapable of her own distress."

Gertrude to Claudius and Laertes (about Ophelia's death)

200

What is the primary theme in Hamlet?

Revenge can become an obsession that destroys those who attempt it. 

300

Recurring biblical motif in East of Eden

The Cain and Abel story.

300

What is the Wall?

A place in town where the bodies of executed dissidents are displayed.

300

Sister's dog.

Mitelin.

300

"Perhaps he loves you now; but you must fear, his greatness weighed, his will is not his own."

Laertes to Ophelia (about Hamlet)

300

The Handmaid's Tale's theme?

Individual vs. community/ good vs. evil / free will vs. fate

400

Name which means strength and stability, four, cube

Abra

400

What is a Utopian novel?

A novel set in an ideal world/ society

400

A favorite place that the girls escaped to sometimes.

The car.

400

"There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,"

Hamlet about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

400

Primary theme in Oedipus trilogy?

free will vs. fate (Oedipus v. prophesy) 
500

Name which means: wholly followed Jehovah, God of Israel; bold and fearless

Caleb

500

What is a novel where the world is not ideal but terrifying or restrictive in some way?

Dystopian novel

500

Explain a major theme of Hula.

Childhood should be a time of safety and security.  Soldiers can bring home the war if they are not taken care of.  Wars have long-term effects for everyone.

500

"Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty, calls Virtue hypocrite"

Hamlet about Gertrude

500

Primary theme in East of Eden?

Good vs. evil/ free will vs. fate / country vs. city

Individual vs. conformity

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