Literature+Review

Use this page as a place to review the Facts about each of the novels and plays we have read throughout the year.
Characters: Tess Durbeyfield Angel Clare Alec D'Urberville
 * Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy**

Essential Quotations: "I waited and waited for you," she went on, her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos. "But you did not come! And I wrote to you, and you did not come! He kept on saying you would never come any more, and that I was a foolish woman. He was very kind to me, and to mother, and to all of us after father's death. He--" Oedipus Rex by Sophocles ** the 'ideal' tradegy Characters: Oedipus Jocasta - mother then wife of Oedipus Crayon - brother of Jocasta Tireias - blind guy who gave prophecies
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convergence of 3 roads - where he met his father to kill him

Themes: Blindness (both literal at end of play w/Oedipus and figurative - ignorance) Fate

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Characters: Troy - protagonist Bono Rose - wife of Troy Cory - younger son Lyon - Troy's son from a previous marriage Gabriel - (mental disability -trumpet) Raynell - Troy's "illegitimate" child
 * Fences by August Wilson **

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Characters: The Protagonist (nameless) Mr. Norton - white man who got sick from seeing the guy who raped his kids; college tour Dr. Bledsoe - "good" guy turned bad; knows how to play prejudice game Barbee - sermon --> blindness Mr. Emerson - final letter Mr. Brockway Mary Brother Jack Tod Clifton - "erased" from history Ras the Exhorter (antagonist)
 * Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison**

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 * The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry**

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 * Hard Times by Charles Dickens**

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**King Lear by William Shakespeare**  connects to Oedipus Characters:

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**Endgame by Samuel Beckett** Characters: Nag Nell Ham Clove

Themes: Death Human Existence Humanity & frustration

"Acts Without Words" attempted suicide failed --> fate

Essential Quotations: "Hamm: You [himself] . . . remain" (84).

**The Tempest by Shakespeare** "comedy" Characters:

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Characters: Jacob (socially inept) Florinda (He thinks she's boring.) Timmy (gay)
 * Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf**

Themes: style ~ stream of consciousness ("flowing water" (quote of k.a.l.)

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 * The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by**

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 * She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith **

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Characters: Addie (mom) Anse in order ~ Cash (builder); Darl (loves mom); Jewel (rebel w/horse); Dewey Dell (pregnant); Vardaman (confused) Cora & Vernon Tull Peabody (Whitfield)
 * As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner**

Darl knows (about the pregnant).
 * The mom loved Darl the best, but Jewel loved the mom the best
 * Jewel was the son of Addie & the preacher.

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Characters: Oedipa Pierce Inverarity Mucho Mass Metzger (lawyer for Pierce, boy actor, Oedipa's runaway lover) Mike Fallopian (bar guy) Koteks (made Maxwell's Demon/Nefastis Machine) the Paranoids Peter Pinguid Society (against industrial anything)
 * The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon**

Themes: entropy second law of thermodynamics communication (post horn) & the Thurn and Taxis The Courier's Tradegy binary thinking (e.j. crazy or not) 24-hr journey (parallel to Invisible Man)

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 * The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien**

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 * Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill **

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 * Invisible Cities by**

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