AP Literature Character Review Flashcards

9762642698	Mr. Darcy	owner of Pemberley	0
9762642699	Elizabeth Bennet	rejects two marriage proposals before accepting a third proposal	1
9762642700	Jane Bennet	rides a horse in the rain and gets sick	2
9762642701	Lydia Bennet	the first of her sisters to get married	3
9762642702	Mr. Bennet	goes to London to search for his youngest daughter	4
9762642703	Mrs. Bennet	is thrilled by Lydia's marriage	5
9762642704	Mr. Bingley	marries Jane Bennet	6
9762642705	Mr. Wickham	tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy	7
9762642706	Mr. Collins	he will inherit Longbourn estate	8
9762642707	Lady Catherine de Bourgh	this woman's interference convinces Darcy to propose again to Elizabeth	9
9762642708	Charlotte Lucas	she marries for practicality, not for love	10
9762658474	Jane Austen	author of Pride and Prejudice	11
9762704643	Oedipus	solves the Sphinx's riddle	12
9762709310	Iocaste	hangs herself when she discovers the truth about her marriage	13
9762741412	Creon	refuses burial to Polyneices	14
9762775502	Laios	killed by Oedipus	15
9762779314	Teiresius	blind prophet	16
9762795423	Antigone	believes the laws of the gods are more important than the laws of humans	17
9762805595	Ismene	believes she isn't strong enough to defy Creon's laws	18
9762822261	Haimon	tells his father that the people of Thebes support Antigone	19
9762835761	Sophocles	author of The Oedipus Cycle	20
9762839929	Eteocles	kills Polyneices	21
9762843851	Polyneices	kills Eteocles	22
9762861539	Hamlet	kills his girlfriend's father	23
9762886206	Claudius	prays for forgiveness, but isn't willing to give up the fruits of his crime	24
9762902487	Gertrude	her husband could prevent her death, but he allows her to drink poison	25
9762940736	Polonius	spies on various conversations, leading to his own death	26
9762957048	Ophelia	both her father and her brother advise her to keep her distance from Hamlet	27
9762980370	Fortinbras	prince of Norway	28
9762984148	Rosencrantz	friend of Guildenstern	29
9762988702	Guildenstern	friend of Rosencrantz	30
9762996076	Laertes	Claudius manipulates this man's desire for vengeance	31
9763013942	Horatio	stays alive at the end of the play to tell Hamlet's story	32
9763023537	William Shakespeare	author of Hamlet and Othello	33
9763033201	Othello	believes he loves not wisely, but too well	34
9763066078	Desdemona	shows absolute loyalty to her husband, even when he kills her	35
9763084070	Brabantio	father of Desdemona	36
9763092007	Iago	he manipulates every character's weaknesses in order to destroy them and take his revenge	37
9763125088	Cassio	loses his job after a drunken brawl	38
9763131702	Emilia	gives Desdemona's handkerchief to her husband	39
9763163853	Roderigo	lovesick and foolish, making him an easy target for Iago's manipulation	40
9823349059	Charles Dickens	author of A Tale of Two Cities	41
9823351204	Charles Darnay	born into a French aristocratic family, but gave up his title	42
9823358748	Lucie Manette	grew up mistakenly believing her father was dead	43
9823373785	Sydney Carton	envisions a brighter future for France after his own death	44
9823389303	Jarvis Lorry	"a man of business," he follows Carton's directions and helps the Darnay/Manette family escape Paris	45
9823405181	Jerry Cruncher	"a resurrection man"	46
9823410070	Madame Defarge	The Evremondes are responsible for the deaths of some of her family members	47
9823418197	Monsieur Defarge	has mixed feelings about arresting Charles Darnay and family, but his loyalty is to the revolution.	48
9823442582	Marquis St. Evremonde	throws gold coins at the father of a boy he killed	49
9823450586	Miss Pross	sacrifices her hearing while defending Lucie	50
9823465365	John Barsad	also known as Solomon Pross	51
9823468742	Roger Cly	English spy who fakes his own death	52
9823475024	Chinua Achebe	author of Things Fall Apart	53
9823482711	Okonkwo	his shame for his father's weakness drives most of his life's decisions	54
9823488496	Ezinma	Okonkwo's favorite child	55
9823494174	Ikemefuna	Okonkwo kills this person, even though a tribesman warned him not to do this.	56
9823508523	Nwoye	converts to Christianity	57
9823517736	Obierika	His flexibility, wisdom, and compassion make him a foil to Okonkwo.	58
9823538003	Ekwefi	mother of Ezinma	59