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| 6689124959 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain Important Characters: - Huck Finn - Tom Sawyer - Jim Important Themes: - bildungsroman - episodic novel - islands/rivers/boats - Tom Sawyer's 'proper' adventures - stories, good stories and lies Other Notes: - | 0 | |
| 6689144689 | Hamlet | Author: William Shakespeare Important Characters: - Hamlet - Ophelia - King Claudius - The Ghost/Hamlet's father - Queen Gertrude - Polonius - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - Laertes Important Themes/features: - revenge - grief - family/heritage - plays/acting/theater - death - existentialism Other Notes: - | 1 | |
| 6689324896 | Pinocchio | Author: Carlo Collodi Important Characters: - Pinocchio - Geppetto (Pinocchio's 'father') - the Fairy with the Sky-Blue Hair - Cat and Fox Important Themes: - parenting - being a good boy or being a 'real' boy - bildungsroman Other Notes: - | 2 | |
| 6689358650 | Oroonoko | Author: Aphra Ben Important Characters: - Oroonoko Important Themes: - slavery (obviously) - racial characterizations - royalty? - (I really do not remember much at all about this one, any additions would be much appreciated!) | 3 | |
| 6689381652 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Author: Tom Stoppard Important Characters: - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - Hamlet + related - players Important Themes: - boats - ghost chapters - chance/probability/coin flipping - playing/acting - predestination/direction/fate/home/where they are going Other Notes: - | 4 | |
| 6689412880 | The Tempest | Author: William Shakespeare Important Characters: - Prospero - Miranda - Caliban - Ferdinand - Antonio (usurping Duke of Milan) - King Alonso - Stephano + Trinculo - Ariel - Gonzalo Important Themes: - colonization (esp. of Caliban) - marriage - isolation on the island + descriptions of the island - Prospero's oppression and control - storms, tempests - magic, the fairies' songs - dreams and sleep Other Notes: - play - connect Caliban's character here to other versions in Caribbean poetry | 5 | |
| 6689456611 | Paradise Lost | Author: John Milton Important Characters: Important Themes: - Satan's eyes - the extent of Satan's power, God's power - free will - Adam/Eve dynamic - the purpose/result of the fall - Satan's serpent form - the princes/demons of Hell Other Notes: - epic poem | 6 | |
| 6689481714 | Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Bronte Important Characters: - Catherine Earnshaw/Linton - Heathcliff - Hindley Earnshaw - Edgar Linton - Nelly/Mrs. Dean - Isabella Linton - Cathy Linton (Cathy gen 2) - Hareton Earnshaw - Linton Heathcliff - Mr. Lockwood? - Joseph? Important Themes: - doubling in the generations - Heaven/Hell and home with Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange - violence/abuse, communication and honesty - love Other Notes: - Romantic prose | 7 | |
| 6689539567 | Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf Important Characters: - Clarissa Dalloway - Richard Dalloway - Peter Walsh - Elizabeth Dalloway (+ Miss Kilman) - Septimus + Rezia - Hugh Whitbread? - Lady Bruton? - Dr. Holmes and Sir William Bradshaw Important Themes: - temporality - inability to escape the past - Septimus' PTSD and doctors + human nature - Peter Walsh/Clarissa Dalloway - suicide - stream-of-consciousness narrative - marriage - Clarissa's public face - repressed emotions Other Notes: - modernist prose | 8 | |
| 6689604607 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Important Characters: - Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde - Mr. Utterson - Dr. Lanyon Important Themes: - Mr. Utterson's name/narrator qualities - the city of London, the streets, the fog - strangeness about the entire novel - dual nature of man - repressed society - science - pureness/contamination Other Notes: - | 9 | |
| 6689645246 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Author: Thomas Pynchon Important Characters: - Oedipa Maas - Metzger - Inverarity Pierce - Wendell (Mucho) Maas - Dr. Hilarius? (seems to be inserted quite a bit even if we don't really read about him) - Miles and the Paranoids Important Themes: - hieroglyphs - narcissism (+ connect to Narcissus and Echo) - character names - layers of meaning, hidden meaning, concealed message or communication - Other Notes: - modernist/post-modernist | 10 |
