3 Q3 books Flashcards
(24 cards)
JE quote about her life at Gateshead
“I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them.” (Ch 2)
JE quote about Rochester dreams
“I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring,… I still again and again met Mr. Rochester” (Ch 32)
DoaS quote about being popular
“And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England. The finest people. And when I bring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us, ‘cause one thing, boys: I have friends.”
DoaS quote about last payment
“I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home.”
The Sound and the Fury quote about time
“The watch ticked on.”
The Sound and the Fury quote about Jason’s life view
“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
JE genre:
novel, (Gothic & romantic) English
JE Setting:
early 19th century England
JE Main characters;
Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester
JE Main Plot/Idea/Concept:
Jane Eyre, as an adult, tells the story of her young life so far, from an orphan to a love-torn woman
JE tags:
love, self determination, social class, religion
DoaS genre:
play
DoaS setting:
1940s, Brooklyn, New York, New York City, and Boston
DoaS Main characters:
Willy Loman, Linda (his wife), Biff and Happy (his 2 sons)
DoaS Main Plot/Idea/Concept:
A washed-up salesman considers the value of his life and decides he can leave more to his family if he’s dead and his insurance check provides for them.
DoaS Tags:
tragedy, The American Dream, flashback
The Sound and the Fury author and date published:
William Faulkner, 1929
JE author and date published:
Charlotte Brontë, 1847
DoaS author and date published:
Arthur Miller, 1949
The Sound and the Fury genre:
novel
The Sound and the Fury setting:
Easter weekend, 1928, and June 1929 (w/flashbacks); Jefferson, Mississippi, and Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard Univ.)
The Sound and the Fury main characters:
children of the Compson family: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Caddy, Quentin (Caddy’s daughter), and house-keeper Dilsey
The Sound and the Fury main plot/idea/concept:
a distinguished family falls from grace
The Sound and the Fury tags:
nihilism (the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless), order and chaos, time, structure (4 different narrators), stream of consciousness