Ariel
The husband and poet who edited Plath's posthumous collection of poetry.
Who is Ted Hughes?
Prospero's daughter; Ferdinand's wife.
Who is Miranda?
The name the Creature gives himself.
Who is Adam?
These poets really hated trains.
Who are the Romantics?
"Six feet down nobody interested."
What is 'Enter Without So Much As Knocking' by Bruce Dawe?
Ariel continually begs Prospero for this.
The Bard's preferred meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
The surname of the cottagers.
Who are the 'de Laceys'?
Tudor ruler who made two of his wives a little shorter.
Who is Henry VIII?
"...my face a featureless, fine Jew linen."
What is 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath?
Plath's only novel, named for a scientific instrument.
What is The Bell Jar?
"Hag-seed," "abhorred slave," "tortoise."
Who is Caliban?
The novel's subtitle.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
The city that birthed classical theatre.
What is Athens?
"Some people may be happy living like pigs but I'm not."
What is Away by Michael Gow?
Where Ariel was imprisoned by the witch Sycorax.
What is a tree?
Patron monarch of the King's Men; who has two titles.
Who is King James VI and I?
The place that Frankenstein is arrested on suspicion of murder.
What is Ireland?
Jean Rhys, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf.
Who are the Modernists?
"There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now."
What is Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys?
Plath's style of poetry; popular with sinners.
What is confessional poetry?
A drunken butler and would-be king.
Who is Stephano?
For the Creature, this is a kind of Bible.
What is Frankenstein's diary?
What happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believed.
What is magical realism?
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?"
What is Paradise Lost by John Milton?