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Antigone: daughter of Oedipus, wants to bury Polynieces, breaks Creon's decree and buries Polynieces, engaged to Haimon, hangs herself when she is sentenced to death in a stone vault
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apothecary: gives Romeo the poison to kill himself
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Argos: Odysseus' dog who dies when he sees Odysseus after 20 years
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Balthasar: Romeo's servant; tells him Juliet died
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Banquo: Macbeth's friend, killed by people Macbeth pay to kill him, sons will be kings
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Benvolio: Romeo's friend; peacemaker
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Calypso: mischievous daughter of Atlas who holds Odysseus captive on her island
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Capulet: head of household at feud with the Montagues; Juliet's father
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Charles Darnay: married to Lucie, son of the twin Marquis de Evremonde, imprisoned in solitary confinement for a year, sentenced to death but saved by Carton, the gentleman
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Charybdis: whirlpool that sucks in Odysseus' boat
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Circe: goddess who turns Odysseus' men into pigs
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Creon: Jocasta's brother/Oedipus' uncle and loyal friend to Oedipus
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Creon: Oedipus' brother-in-law, King of Thebes, doesn't allow grieving or burial of Polynieces
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Dr. Manette: Lucie's father, imprisoned in the Bastille for 20 years because of the Evremondes, becomes insane, saved by Lucie, makes shoes, physician, letter of condemnation for Darnay
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Duncan: king killed by Macbeth
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Earnest Defarge: owns a wine shop, married to woman who's always knitting, leads the attack of the Bastille, was young servant of Dr. Manette
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Escalus: the Prince of Verona
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Eurycleia: faithful servant who raises Telemachus and loves him like a son
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Eurydice: Haimon's mom and Creon's wife, kills herself when she hears her son killed kimself
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Fleance: Banquo's son who flees the murderers trying to kill him and his father
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Friar John: person ordered to give message to Romeo by Friar Laurence
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Friar Laurence: man that married Romeo and Juliet, came up with plan for Juliet to fake her death
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Haimon: engaged to Antigone, son of Creon, defends Antigone's action, finds Antigone's body, kills himself after he tries to kill his father
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Helen: wife of Menelaus; kidnapped by Paris- reason for the Trojan war, most beautiful woman in the world
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Ismene: Antigone's sister, refuses to bury Polynieces with Antigone, but then tries to take the blame
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Jacques: the code name that was given to revolutionaries in the Jacobin group, wore red caps, the main leaders were the Defarges
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Jerry Cruncher: honest tradesman, works as messenger at Tellsons for Mr. Lorry, also a Resurrection man
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Jocasta: Queen of Thebes, marries her son; hangs herself when she finds out he's her son
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Juliet: 14, falls in love with Romeo, fakes death, stabs herself
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Lady Capulet: Juliet's mother
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Lady Macbeth: woman who helps Macbeth kill Duncan, she can't do it because he reminds her of her father sleeping, wants her husband to be king
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Lady Montague: mother of Romeo
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Laertes: Odysseus' father, lives on the outskirts of Ithaca
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Laius: King of Thebes; killed by his son; leaves baby on a mountain to die
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Lucie Manette: golden thread, married to Darnay, saves her father Dr. Manette-restores him to sanity, has a daughter named Lucie and son named Carton, loved by Sydney Carton
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Macbeth: killed King Duncan so he could be king, felt guilty, Thane of Cawdors, married, listens to 3 witches, defeated by Macduff
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Macduff: man who finally kills Macbeth
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Madame Defarge: sister of the brother and sister killed by the Evremondes, wants revenge to Charles Darnay and his family, always knitting, killed by Miss Pross
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Malcolm and Donalbain: Duncan's sons, flee when their father is killed so they aren't blamed
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Mantua: city Romeo is banished to
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Menelaus: Helen's husband; fights in Trojan war; brother of Agamemnon
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Mercutio: Romeo's friend, killed by Tybalt
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messenger from Corinth: tells Oedipus that his father Polybus is dead and the Corinthians want him to be their new king
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Miss Pross: loyal British servant to the Manettes, calls Lucie her Ladybird, would sacrifice her life for her when head to head with Madame Defarge, accidentally kills her, deaf in the end
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Montague: head of household at feud with the Capulets, father of Romeo
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Mr. Lorry: friend of the Manettes, works at Tellsons, old bachelor, man of business
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Mr. Stryver: Lawyer, lets Carton do all of his work, lion, wanted to marry Lucie but doesn't
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Nurse: Juliet's caretaker and friend, carries messages to Romeo from Juliet
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Odysseus: fights in Trojan war, father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, out at sea for 20 years, kills the suitors to Penelope, King of Ithaca
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Oedipus: father of Antigone and Ismene, banished from Thebes for incest- Jocasta and murder- Laius, but dies peacefully as a blind old man
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Oedipus: King of Thebes; kills his father and marries his mother; left on the mountain to die; raised by Polybus and Merope; blinds himself after Jocasta kills herself
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Paris: young nobleman, wants to marry Juliet, killed by Romeo
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Penelope: Odysseus' wife, Telemachus' mother, Queen of Ithaca
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Peter: servant to Juliet's Nurse
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Polyphemus: cyclops, blinded by the Greeks
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Romeo: Montague, marries Juliet, commits suicide by poison; kills Tybalt and Paris; banished to Mantua
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Scylla: multi-headed monster that eats Odysseus' men
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shepherd: gives Oedipus to the messenger like Laius and Jocasta say; witnesses Laius' death; flees from city when Oedipus becomes king
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Sirens: beautiful, singing women that bring in men by the sound of their voices
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Sphinx: monster outside Thebes who asked the riddle "What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?" and kills herself when Oedipus answers correctly
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Sydney Carton: loves Lucie and would sacrifice his life for her and anyone she loves, and does by taking the place of Darnay in the guillotine, works for Stryver, the jackal
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Telemachus: Odysseus' son, handsome and loyal to his father
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the Chorus: Reflect on the plot of the play by asking philosophical questions the audience should be thinking while watching the play
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the chorus: comment on the action seen throughout the tragedy, offer advice to the protagonists, express their opinions about the situations, pity both Antigone and Creon
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the history of the Marquis St. Evremonde: The St. Evremonde family had a pair of twin brothers. One day, Dr. Manette, then a young physician in France, was called to their manor to inspect a sick and dying girl. The Marquis was very cold and apathetic, he seemed to have no care or regard that the young woman would soon die. He had raped her and now the pregnant woman was dying and had completely lost her mind. Dr. Manette tried to help both her and her brother, but there was nothing he could do. Later, he wrote a letter to the mayor of Beauvais, telling him of the horrors he witnessed at the St. Evremondehouse. That night, the Marquis kidnapped the Doctor and sent him to the Bastille prison on a lettre de cachet. Later on, Charles Darnay and his mother both try to find the sister of the dead girl and boy and try to make her life a little easier. However, this never happens, and the Marquis is killed by Gaspard, a Jacobin revolutionary
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the little seamstress: woman that Sydney Carton meets and holds his hand while waiting to be killed by the guillotine, they connect and he kisses her right before she is killed
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the Mender of the Roads: becomes a woodsawyer, Samson of the guillotine, sees Lucie everyday at 3 when she comes so Darnay can see her
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the Sentry: brings the news that Polyneices has been buried, and later captures Antigone
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Tiresias: blind prophet who warns Creon that the gods do not approve of his treatment of Polyneices' body or the punishment of Antigone
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Tiresias: blind prophet; told Oedipus he was the one who killed Laius
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Tiresias: prophet in the underworld, blind but sees
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Tybalt: Juliet's cousin, killed Mercutio, killed by Romeo
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Verona: city of Romeo and Juliet
