Humanities10H Novels
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Merlevine123 on June 9, 2011
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People, Plot, Themes and Symbols in:
The Scarlet Letter, King Lear, A Thousand Acres, The Crucible, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby and Fences.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nathaniel Hawthorne | author of The Scarlet Letter |
| Hester Prynne | Puratin woman who wears the Scarlet Letter; adultress |
| Pearl Prynne | Hester's daughter, symbol of Sin |
| Roger Chillingworth | Hester's Legal husband, is supposed to be dead. Set on discovering Pearl's father, dies 4 months after Dimmsdale. |
| Rev. Arthur Dimmsdale | Pearl's Father, responsible for the people of the town, assumed to have a scarlet "A" on his chest. |
| Bellingham | Materialistic Governer |
| Mistress Higgins | Bellingham's sister, hanged for being a witch. |
| Rev. John Wilson | Older, Grandfather figure |
| Narrator | Works at Customhouse; finds Scarlet Letter Manuscript and Scarlet Letter. Later Quits job to be writer |
| What Happened in The Scarlet Letter? | Hester has a baby out of wedlock. Her husband is thought to have died in a shipwreck. After 7 years, Hester and Dimmsdale plan to run away with Pearl to England. Dimmsdale dies on Scalfold, Chillingworth dies 4 months later. Hester and Pearl move to England, where Pearl gets married. Hester moves back and is buried next to Dimmsdale. |
| Themes in The Scarlet Letter | Adultery, Sin, Family, Identity & Society, Evil's True Nature |
| Symbols in The Scarlet Letter | The Scarlet Letter, Pearl, Meteor (A), Rose bush |
| William Shakesphere | Author of King Lear |
| Major Characters in King Lear | King Lear, Cordelia, Goneril, Regan, Edgar, Edmund, Kent |
| Minor Characters in King Lear | Glocester, Albany, Cornwall, Oswald, Fool |
| Plot of King Lear | Lear made 3 daughters tell him how much they love him, Cordelia could not put it into words her love, so he banished her to marry the King of France. |
| Who Dies in King Lear | Cordelia (hanged), Lear (heart break), Regan (suicide), Goneril (blood loss), Cornwall, Oswald (stabbed) |
| Themes in King Lear | Disorder, Chaos, Blindness |
| Symbols in King Lear | Blindness, Crown/Kingdom |
| Major Characters in A Thousand Acres | Larry, Caroline, Rose, Ginny, Jes, Ty |
| Minor Characters in A Thousand Acres | Harold, Loren, Pete, Marv Carson |
| Themes in A Thousand Acres | Love, Family, Trust |
| Arthur Miller | Author of The Crucible |
| Abigail | starts witch problems, lusts after John Proctor, Flees and steals money |
| John Proctor | Farmer, had affair with Abigail, refuses to save his life by saying he is a witch |
| Elizabeth Proctor | pregnant, grown apart from John, lies for John about affair |
| Rebecca Nurse | very old, kind person, hanged, never had kid (miscarriage) |
| Rev. Hale | witch hunter, doesn't believe anything is wrong |
| Betty | Rev. Parris' daughter, goes into coma like state (fake) |
| Tituba | Slave, all girls accuse her of voodoo/witchcraft |
| Mary Warren | Proctor's servant girl, hides a doll (poppet) and Elizabeth is accused of Voodoo |
| Rev. Parris | seeking out witches (obsessed) |
| Giles Corey | dies from being pressed with rocks; "More Weight" |
| Themes in The Crucible | Hysteria, Betrayal |
| Mark Twain | Wrote Huckleberry Finn |
| Huckleberry Finn | irresponsible, reckless, uncivilized, doesnt want to follow rules, smokes, drinks, goes against society (racism), misunderstood, mature for age |
| Tom Sawyer | "Best Friend", goes to Phelp's farm, knows Jim is free, gets shot |
| Jim | Slave, runs away because they want to separate him and his family, superstitious, helps Tom, selfless |
| Pap | drunk, uneducated, abusive, racist, wants to steal Huck's money, dies early in book |
| Miss Watson and Widow Douglass | takes care of Huck, wants him to be civilized |
| The King and The Duke | con men, steals money, puts on fake Shakespherian show, "Wilkes Brothers", tarred and feathered. |
| The Grangerfords | feuding with Shepardsons, one daughter runs away with Shepardson's son. all die in "final battle" |
| Buck | makes friends with Huck (George Jackson), dies |
| Themes in Huck Finn | Overcoming Racism, Civilized vs. Uncivilized |
| Symbol in Huck Finn | Mississippi River (freedom) |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author of The Great Gatsby |
| Nick Carraway | Narrator, Gatsby's neighbor, Daisy's cousin, dated Jordan, Bond businessman, lives in West Egg, |
| Jay Gatsby | James Gatz, rich, in love with Daisy, lives on West Egg, "New Money", dies at end of novel from being shot, has affair with Daisy |
| Daisy Buchanan | Married to Tom, having Affair with Gatsby, Nick's cousin, has child Pammy, lives in East Egg, materialistic, kills Myrtle |
| Tom Buchanan | Daisy's husband, having affair with Myrtle, East Egg,"Old Money", arrogant, ignorant, racist, sexist, |
| Jordan Baker | Daisy's best friend, Golfer, dated Nick. |
| Myrtle Wilson | Tom's lover, married to George, wants to be rich, lives in The Valley of The Ashes, dies by getting hit by Daisy |
| George Wilson | Myrtle's Husband, kills Gatsby, shoots himself, runs autoshop in Valley of the Ashes |
| Themes in The Great Gatsby | The American Dream, Hollowness of the Upper Class |
| Symbols in The Great Gatsby | The Green Light, The Valley of the Ashes, TJ Eckleberg's Eyes |
| August Wilson | Wrote Fences |
| Troy Maxson | has affair and has baby, set on building the fence, set against his son going to college to play football, Garbageman, dies from Heart Attack |
| Cory Maxson | wants to play football, forced to have job from Troy, joins the Marines and comes home for Troy's funeral |
| Rose Maxson | Troy's wife, housewife, ends up taking care of Tray's daughter, wants Cory to play football, compassionate |
| Themes in Fences | Coming of Age, Family, Love, Acceptance, The American Dream, Betrayal |
| Symbols in Fences | Fences, Train |
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