This monster creates chaos by attacking a hall where people party.
Who is Grendel?
This object symbolizes triumph over evil and restores order, but also foreshadows another battle.
What is Grendel's arm?
What value or "good" might the lock of hair Laura gave represent?
This character wanted to renew life and overcome death.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This knight was tested on his honesty and not his physical strength.
Who is Sir Gawain?
This small object stands for all of creation in divine love.
What is a hazelnut?
This poem shows the possession of the speaker eventually leading him to strangle his lover.
What is Porphyria's Lover?
This character has a second identity that murders.
Who is Dr. Jekyll?
This scientist turns into his dark half to act out his evil desires.
Who is Dr. Jekyll?
This item represents a knight's love for life and failure to follow knight codes.
What is the green girdle?
This character plays a very passive role as the wife of a scientist and eventually dies, representing the way women were overlooked and underrepresented.
Who is Elizabeth?
These two species represent the dangers of class division.
What are the Eloi and Morlocks?
His appearance causes others to think he is evil before he even acts.
Who is Frankenstein's Creature?
This item allows a husband to maintain control over his wife even though she's dead.
What is the Duchess's portrait?
This item shows how Victorian society had immense purity culture and desire to control women’s bodies, so that love and appetite are treated as sins that decay them.
What is goblin fruit?
This book critiqued the Enlightenment belief that scientific advancement is always good, showing how innovation without ethics can be deadly.
What is Frankenstein?
Her writing argues that sin is necessary andhas no substance but to show pain and turn people back to God.
Who is Julian of Norwich?
This symbol on Gawain’s shield represents five virtues that he must follow, but also reveals how he is human and cannot be perfect.
What is the Pentangle?
This modern poet wrote a piece encouraging women to never change for what a man wants, standing up against societal pressures for male approval and gender stereotypes.
Who is Warsan Shire?
This author used science fiction to warn that if humans continue to exploit other humans then evolution will make a class of predators and prey.
Who is H. G. Wells?