Characters
This character wakes up one morning, changed into a gargantuan pest.
Who is Gregor Samsa?
This philosophy differs from existentialism in that it opposes the search for meaning.
What is absurdism?
This event catalyzes the plot of Hamlet.
What is Hamlet seeing his father's ghost?
This object is absent from Sartre's "Hell" but desperately sought after by Estelle.
What is a mirror?
This is Gregor's favorite human drink that he refuses in his metamorphosed state.
What is milk?
This character is a blind prophet who believes in the power of the Truth.
Who is Tiresias?
This genre typically involves katharsis, anagnorisis, and peripetia.
What is Greek Tragedy?
This is the immediate "cause" of Meursault shooting the man on the beach.
What is the sun glints off of the man's knife blade?
This motif represents "truth" in Oedipus Rex.
What is "eyes"?
This is the skull that Hamlet holds during his famous speech in Act V.
What is Yorick's?
This character is the only one of three who will admit her wrongdoings.
Who is Inez?
This field of literary criticism gets its name from the author of the Communist Manifesto.
What is Marxism?
This is the place where Oedipus unknowingly kills his father.
Where is at the intersection of three roads?
This is both the metaphorical and literal object of poisoning in Hamlet.
What is the "ear"?
This is what Mr. Doolittle claims he cannot afford.
What is middle-class morality?
This character has the final word in Hamlet.
Who is Prince Fortinbras?
This is the type of tragedy exhibited both by Hamlet and The Murder of Gonzago.
What is revenge tragedy?
This event both demonstrates Gregor's humanity and solidifies his demise.
What is Gregor's emerging to hear Grete's violin playing?
This represents Mr. Samsa's newfound authority in The Metamorphosis.
What is his uniform?
This is what Meursault wishes for at the very end of The Stranger.
What is a large crowd of spectators to greet him with cries of hate?
This character gives the iconic advice, "to thine own self be true."
Who is Polonius?
What are himself, others, nature, and God.
These two books both end in maniacal laughter.
What are Pygmalion and No Exit?
These two items represent social conventions and order in Part II of The Stranger.
What are the crucifix and guillotine?
Name three flowers that Ophelia references in her mad scene.
What are rosemary, pansies, violets, rue, columbines, fennel, or daisies.