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[Chronology] |
Death, Dying, Grief, and Mourning
in Western Literature
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Index for Death, Dying, Grief and Mourning - by
type of Death:
Accidental -
Animals -
Assassinations - Biblical -
Burial Rites -
Criminals - Children -
Friend - Funerals
Grief - Group/Genocide -
Heroes - Lover/Spouse -
Martyrs - Metaphoric -
Mourning - Murder
- Mysterious
Noble -
Old Age - Parent/Grandparent -
Peaceful -
Punishment - Religous Person -
Rituals - Romantic -
Royalty
Sacrificial -
Sibling/Other Relatives -
Soldiers -
Spouse - Stranger
- Suicide -
Timely/Anticipated -
Tragic/Untimely
Violent - War -
Welcome - Women -
Women/Violent
| Accidental: |
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Animals:
(Sacrificial) |
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Animals:
(Pets) |
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Assassinations
Murder
Criminals
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Homer, The Iliad |
Patroklos |
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Euripides,
Alcestis |
Alcestis |
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Bulfinch Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo |
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Shakespeare,
Othello |
Othello |
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans |
Cora & Magua |
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Alexander Pushkin,
Queen of Spades |
Countess & Ghost |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Pawnbroker |
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Dorian Gray |
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Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
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Franz Kafka,
The Trial |
Herr K |
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Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Roberta |
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William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe
Christmas |
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John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men |
Lenny |
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Albert Camus,
The Stranger |
The Arab |
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Truman Capote,
In Cold Blood |
Hickock |
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John le Carre',
Smiley’s People |
Leipzig |
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Toni Morrison,
Beloved |
Sethe |
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Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain |
Inman |
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Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
Susie Salmon |
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| Biblical |
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Burial Rites
Funerals
Rituals
after Death |
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Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
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King James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 &
34 |
Moses |
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Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
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King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
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Modern Text,
Beowulf |
Beowulf |
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Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
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The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga |
Thorvald Tafald |
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J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
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Johathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travel’s |
Burial Rites |
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Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien Sorel |
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Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur Huntingdon |
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Emile Zola,
Nana |
Nana |
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Leo Tolstoy, War
and Peace |
Prince
Andrey |
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Leo Tolstoy,
Death of Ivan Ilych |
Ivan
Ilych |
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James Joyce,
Ulysses |
Patty Digham’s Funeral |
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Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph & Von Trotta |
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Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny Fisher |
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Farley Mowat,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be |
Mutt |
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Child
Children |
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Euripides,
Medea |
Alcestis |
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Euripides,
The Trojan Women |
Astyanax |
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Mary Shelley,
The Last Man |
Son & Wife |
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Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Esmerelda |
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Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Little
Nell |
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Hans Christian Andersen,
The Little Match-Seller |
Match-girl |
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George Eliot,
Mill on the Floss |
Tom & Maggie |
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Walt Whitman,
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier |
Frank H. Irwin |
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Mark Twain,
The Death of Jean |
Jean, Daughter |
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Franz Kafka,
Metamorphosis |
Gregor
Samsa |
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Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim
Ziemssen |
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Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Roberta |
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Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny Fisher |
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Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
Susie Salmon |
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| Friend |
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Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
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Homer, The Iliad |
Patroklos |
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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
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Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Don Quixote |
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Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Little
Nell |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Marmeladov |
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Emile Zola,
Nana |
Nana |
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Leo Tolstoy, War
and Peace |
Prince
Andrey |
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Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
The Tall Soldier |
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Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim
Ziemssen |
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Henry James,
Portrait of a Lady |
Ralph Touchett |
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John Galsworthy,
The Forsyte Saga |
Old Jolyon & Balthasar |
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James Joyce,
Ulysses |
Patty Digham’s Funeral |
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Katherine Mansfield,
The Canary/ Dove’s Nest |
The Canary |
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Willa Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Fa. Jean Marie Latour |
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William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe
Christmas |
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William Faulkner,
Delta Autumn |
McCaslin |
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Helen Zenna Smith, Not so Quiet on the
Western Front |
Women - WWI |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Joseph Roth,
The Tale of the 1002nd
Night |
Von Taittinger |
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John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men |
Lenny |
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Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
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Charlie Langelet |
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Simone De Beauvoir,
She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
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Flannery O’Connor,
Wise Blood |
Mr. Motes |
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Truman Capote,
A Christmas Memory |
Cousin |
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Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands |
J. T. Malone |
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Grief
Mourning |
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Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
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Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
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Euripides,
Alcestis |
Alcestis |
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King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
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Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
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Omar Khayyam,
Rubaiyat |
Omar Khayyam |
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J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
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Dante Alighieri,
La Vita Nuova |
Beatrice |
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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo
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Geoffrey Chaucer,
Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
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Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King Arthur |
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Shakespeare,
Richard II |
Richard |
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Shakespeare,
Henry V |
Falstaff |
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Shakespeare,
King Lear |
Lear |
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Johathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travel’s |
Burial Rites |
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Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
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Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien Sorel |
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Anton Chekhov,
The Bishop |
The Bishop |
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Mark Twain,
The Death of Jean |
Jean, Daughter |
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D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
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James Joyce,
Ulysses |
Patty Digham’s Funeral |
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Katherine Mansfield,
The Canary/ Dove’s Nest |
The Canary |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
Pale Horse, Pale Rider |
Adam |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
Ship of Fools |
Echegaray, The Basque |
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Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph & Von Trotta |
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Audous Huxley, Brave
New World |
Linda |
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Farley Mowat,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be |
Mutt |
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Monique Truong,
The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
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Jennifer Lash,
Blood Ties |
Birkin |
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Group
Mass
Genocide |
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King James, The Bible, Ecclesiastes
9 & 12 |
Humankind |
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Thucydides, Pericles,
The Funeral Speech |
Greek Soldiers |
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Theodoret,
Of the Massacre of Thessalonica |
Towns’ people |
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John of
Apamea, Ecclesiastical History (Fragments)
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Soldiers |
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Hildegard of Bingen,
Scivias |
Martyrs |
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Helen
Zenna Smith,
Not so Quiet
on the Western Front |
Women - WWI |
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Adam Zameenzad,
My Friend Matt |
Golam et.al. |
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Sebastien Japrisot,
A Very Long Engagement |
French Soldiers |
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Harold Pinter,
Death etc. |
Anonymous Body |
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Heroes
Heroic
Noble |
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Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
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Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
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Homer, The Iliad |
Patroklos |
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Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
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Thucydides, Pericles,
The Funeral Speech |
Greek Soldiers |
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King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
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Theodoret,
Of the Massacre of Thessalonica |
Towns’ people |
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Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo |
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Arabian Nights, Angel of Death |
The Proud, The Devout |
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The Battle of Maldon |
Brythnoth |
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Beowulf |
Beowulf |
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Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
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Unknown,
Chanson de Roland |
Roland |
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The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga |
Thorvald Tafald |
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J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
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Geoffrey Chaucer,
Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
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Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King Arthur |
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Shakespeare,
Henry V |
Falstaff |
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Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Don Quixote |
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans |
Cora & Magua |
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Walt Whitman,
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier |
Frank H. Irwin |
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Leo Tolstoy, War
and Peace |
Prince
Andrey |
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Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
The Tall Soldier |
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Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim
Ziemssen |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby |
Gatsby |
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William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe
Christmas |
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Helen Zenna Smith, Not so Quiet on the
Western Front |
Women - WWI |
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Joseph Heller,
Catch 22 |
Snowden |
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Sebastien Japrisot,
A Very Long Engagement |
French Soldiers |
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Michael Ondaatje,
The English Patient |
English Patient |
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Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain |
Inman |
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Lover/
Spouse |
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Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
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Euripides,
Alcestis |
Alcestis |
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Ovid,
Metamorphoses |
Pyramus & Thisbe |
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Gregory of Nyssa, Life
of Macrina |
Macrina |
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Theodoret,
Of the Massacre of Thessalonica |
Towns’ people |
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Dante Alighieri,
La Vita Nuova |
Beatrice |
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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
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Geoffrey Chaucer,
Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
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Shakespeare,
Othello |
Othello |
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Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
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Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
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Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady
Macbeth |
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Wolfgang Von Goethe,
Sorrows of Young Werther |
Werther |
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Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
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Mary Shelley,
The Last Man |
Son & Wife |
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans |
Cora & Magua |
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Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien Sorel |
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Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Esmerelda |
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Charles Dickens,
Oliver Twist |
Nancy |
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Charlotte Bronte,
Jane Eyre |
Bertha Rochester |
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Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights |
Catherine |
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Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur Huntingdon |
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Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame Bovary |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Marmeladov |
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Leo Tolstoy, War
and Peace |
Prince
Andrey |
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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Anna
Karenina |
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Leo Tolstoy,
Death of Ivan Ilych |
Ivan
Ilych |
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Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
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D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
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Henry James,
Portrait of a Lady |
Ralph Touchett |
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Theodore Dreiser,
Sister Carrie |
Hurstwood |
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Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Roberta
& Clyde |
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Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway |
Septimus |
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William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Zora Neale Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Tea Cake |
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Caroline Slade,
The Triumph of Willie Pond |
Willie Pond |
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Simone De Beauvoir,
She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
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Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny Fisher |
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Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands |
J. T. Malone |
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C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed |
Wife, Helen Joy |
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Toni Morrison,
Beloved |
Sethe |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of
Cholera |
Dr. Juveral Urbino |
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Michael Ondaatje,
The English Patient |
English Patient |
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Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain |
Inman |
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Martyrs
Sacrificial
Religious
Person
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King James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 &
34 |
Moses |
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Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
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King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
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Gregory of Nyssa, Life
of Macrina |
Macrina |
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Jacob of Sarug,
The Fall of the Idols |
Martyr |
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The Holy Qur’an |
Believers |
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Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo |
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Arabian Nights, Angel of Death |
The Proud, The Devout |
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Roswitha,
Dulcitus |
Irena |
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Hildegard of Bingen,
Scivias |
Martyrs |
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John Milton,
Paradise Lost |
Redeemer |
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| Metaphoric |
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| Mysterious |
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| Old Age |
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King James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 &
34 |
Moses |
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Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
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Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Don Quixote |
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Anton Chekhov,
The Bishop |
The Bishop |
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Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav Aschenbach |
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Marcel Proust,
Guermantes Way |
Grandmother |
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Willa Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Fa. Jean Marie Latour |
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William Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
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William Faulkner,
Delta Autumn |
McCaslin |
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Vita Sackville-West,
All Passion Spent |
Lady Slane |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph |
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Caroline Slade,
The Triumph of Willie Pond |
Willie Pond |
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Conrad Richter,
The Town |
Mother Sayward |
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Flannery O’Connor,
Wise Blood |
Mr. Motes |
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C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed |
Wife, Helen Joy |
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Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine |
Great-grandma |
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Jennifer Lash,
Blood Ties |
Birkin |
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Monique Truong,
The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
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Parent
Grandparent |
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Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
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Euripides,
Alcestis
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Alcestis |
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Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame Bovary |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Marmeladov |
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Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina |
Anna Karenina |
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Leo Tolstoy,
Death of Ivan Ilych |
Ivan Ilych |
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D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
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Marcel Proust,
Guermantes Way |
Grandmother |
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William Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
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Vita Sackville-West,
All Passion Spent |
Lady Slane |
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Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Audous Huxley,
Brave New World |
Linda |
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Irene Nemirovsky,
David Golder |
David Golder |
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Conrad Richter,
The Town |
Mother Sayward |
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C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed |
Wife, Helen Joy |
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Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine |
Great-grandma |
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Monique Truong,
The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
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| Peaceful |
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Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
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King James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 &
34 |
Moses |
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Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
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Plato, Phaedo |
Socrates |
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Gregory of Nyssa, Life
of Macrina |
Macrina |
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Arabian Nights, Angel of Death |
The Proud, The Devout |
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Omar Khayyam,
Rubaiyat |
Omar Khayyam |
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Hildegard of Bingen,
Scivias |
Martyrs |
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Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Little Nell |
|
Hans Christian Andersen,
The Little Match-Seller |
Match-girl |
|
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women |
Beth |
|
D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
|
Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav Aschenbach |
|
Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim Ziemssen |
|
Henry James,
Portrait of a Lady |
Ralph Touchett |
|
John Galsworthy,
The Forsyte Saga |
Old Jolyon & Balthasar |
|
Marcel Proust,
Guermantes Way |
Grandmother |
|
James Joyce,
Ulysses |
Patty Digham’s Funeral |
|
Willa Cather,
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Fa. Jean Marie Latour |
|
William Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
|
William Faulkner,
Delta Autumn |
McCaslin |
|
Vita Sackville-West,
All Passion Spent |
Lady Slane |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
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Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph |
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Audous Huxley,
Brave New World |
Linda |
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Radclyffe Hall,
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself |
Miss Ogilvy |
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John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men |
Lenny |
|
Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny Fisher |
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Farley Mowat,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be |
Mutt |
|
Truman Capote,
A Christmas Memory |
Cousin |
|
Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands |
J. T. Malone |
|
Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine |
Great-grandma |
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of
Cholera |
Dr. Juveral Urbino |
|
Michael Ondaatje,
The English Patient |
English Patient |
|
Jennifer Lash,
Blood Ties |
Birkin |
|
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|
| Punishment |
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Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
|
Theodoret,
Of the Massacre of Thessalonica |
Towns’ people |
|
Christopher Marlowe,
Dr. Faustus |
Faustus |
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Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady Macbeth |
|
John Milton,
Paradise Lost |
Redeemer |
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans |
Magua |
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Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien Sorel |
|
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Priest & Esmerelda |
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Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame Bovary |
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Dorian Gray |
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Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
|
Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Clyde |
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William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe Christmas |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
Pale Horse, Pale Rider |
Adam |
|
Joseph Roth,
The Tale of the 1002nd
Night |
Von Taittinger |
|
| |
Romantic/
Beautiful |
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Gregory of Nyssa, Life
of Macrina |
Macrina |
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Omar Khayyam,
Rubaiyat |
Omar Khayyam |
|
Hildegard of Bingen,
Scivias |
Martyrs |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
|
Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady Macbeth |
|
Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Don Quixote |
|
Hans Christian Andersen,
The Little Match-Seller |
Match-girl |
|
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women |
Beth |
|
Leo Tolstoy, War
and Peace |
Prince
Andrey |
|
Anton Chekhov,
The Bishop |
The Bishop |
|
Mark Twain,
The Death of Jean |
Jean, Daughter |
|
D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
|
Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav Aschenbach |
|
Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim Ziemssen |
|
William Faulkner,
As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
|
Toni Morrison,
Beloved |
Sethe |
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of
Cholera |
Dr. Juveral Urbino |
|
| |
| Royalty |
|
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
|
Jacob of Sarug,
The Fall of the Idols |
Martyr |
|
Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo
|
|
Arabian Nights, Angel of Death |
The Proud, The Devout |
|
The Battle of Maldon |
Brythnoth |
|
Beowulf |
Beowulf |
|
Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
|
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
|
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King Arthur |
|
Shakespeare,
Richard II |
Richard |
|
Shakespeare,
Henry V |
Falstaff |
|
Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
|
Shakespeare,
King Lear |
Lear/Cordelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady Macbeth |
|
Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph |
|
|
|
| Sacrificial
(see also) Martyrs
Sacrificial
Religious
Person
|
|
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
Euripides,
Medea |
Her Children |
|
King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
|
Gregory of Nyssa, Life
of Macrina |
Macrina |
|
Jacob of Sarug,
The Fall of the Idols |
Martyr |
|
Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo
|
|
Roswitha,
Dulcitus |
Irena |
|
Franz Kafka,
Metamorphosis |
Gregor Samsa |
|
Ernest Hemingway,
The Sun Also Rises |
Bull |
|
William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe Christmas |
|
|
|
Sibling/
Other
Relatives |
|
Gaius, Velerius Catullus, # 101 |
Brother |
|
Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur Huntingdon |
|
George Eliot,
Mill on the Floss |
Tom & Maggie |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment,
Friend
|
Marmeladov |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment,
Sister |
Lizaveta |
|
Mark Twain,
The Death of Jean |
Jean, Daughter |
|
Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim Ziemssen |
|
John Galsworthy,
The Forsyte Saga |
Old Jolyon & Balthasar |
|
Truman Capote,
A Christmas Memory |
Cousin |
|
|
|
| Stranger |
|
Erich M. Remarque,
All Quiet On the Western Front |
French Soldier |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
Pale Horse, Pale Rider |
Adam |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
Ship of Fools |
Echegaray, The Basque |
|
Eudora Welty,
Death of a Traveling Salesman |
R. J. Bowman |
|
Irene Nemirovsky,
Suite Francaise
|
Charlie Langelet |
|
Albert Camus,
The Stranger |
The Arab |
|
Flannery O’Connor,
Wise Blood |
Mr. Motes |
|
Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands |
J. T. Malone |
|
Monique Truong,
The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
|
| |
Suicide
Planned/
Unplanned |
|
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
|
Plato, Phaedo |
Socrates |
|
Ovid,
Metamorphoses |
Pyramus & Thisbe |
|
King James,
New Testament |
Jesus |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
|
Wolfgang Von Goethe,
Sorrows of Young Werther |
Werther |
|
Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
|
Mary Shelley,
The Last Man |
Son & Wife |
|
Honoré de Balzac,
Lost Illusions |
Lucien/ Suicide Thoughts |
|
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame Bovary |
|
George Eliot,
Mill on the Floss |
Tom & Maggie |
|
Anthony Trollope,
The Way We Live Now |
Melmotte |
|
Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace |
Prince Andrey |
|
Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina |
Anna Karenina |
|
Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Dorian Gray |
|
Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
|
Theodore Dreiser,
Sister Carrie |
Hurstwood |
|
Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway |
Septimus |
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby |
Gatsby |
|
Joseph Roth,
The Tale of the 1002nd
Night |
Von Taittinger |
|
Audous Huxley,
Brave New World |
Savage |
|
Radclyffe Hall,
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself |
Miss Ogilvy |
|
Zora Neale Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Tea Cake |
|
Caroline Slade,
The Triumph of Willie Pond |
Willie Pond |
|
Simone De Beauvoir,
She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
|
Michael Ondaatje,
The English Patient |
English Patient |
|
|
|
Timely
Anticipated
Retributive |
|
Unknown,
Gilgamesh |
Enkidu |
|
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
Plato, Phaedo |
Socrates |
|
Christopher Marlowe,
Dr. Faustus |
Faustus |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Henry V |
Falstaff |
|
Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
|
Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady Macbeth |
|
Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Don Quixote |
|
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien Sorel |
|
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Priest & Esmerelda |
|
Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur Huntingdon |
|
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women |
Beth |
|
Anthony Trollope,
The Way We Live Now |
Melmotte |
|
Emile Zola,
Nana |
Nana |
|
Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Dorian Gray |
|
Joseph Conrad,
An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
|
Anton Chekhov,
The Bishop |
The Bishop |
|
Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav Aschenbach |
|
Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim Ziemssen |
|
Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Roberta & Clyde |
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby |
Gatsby |
|
William Faulkner,
Delta Autumn |
McCaslin |
|
Irene Nemirovsky, David
Golder |
David Golder |
|
Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands |
J. T. Malone |
|
| |
Tragic
Untimely
Unexpected |
|
Unknown,
Gilgamesh
|
Enkidu |
|
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
|
Euripides,
Medea |
Her Children |
|
Euripides,
The Trojan Women |
Astyanax |
|
Plato, Phaedo |
Socrates |
|
Ovid,
Metamorphoses |
Pyramus & Thisbe |
|
Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends
of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Dante Alighieri,
La Vita Nuova |
Beatrice |
|
Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
|
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
|
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King Arthur |
|
Shakespeare,
Richard II |
Richard |
|
Shakespeare,
Othello |
Othello & Desdemona |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Henry V |
Falstaff |
|
Shakespeare,
King Lear |
Lear/Cordelia |
|
Wolfgang Von Goethe,
Sorrows of Young Werther |
Werther |
|
Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
|
Mary Shelley,
The Last Man |
Son & Wife |
|
Charlotte Bronte,
Jane Eyre |
Bertha Rochester |
|
Anne Bronte,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur Huntingdon |
|
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame Bovary |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Marmeladov |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Alena Ivanovna
|
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime &
Punishment |
Lizaveta |
|
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women |
Beth |
|
Anton Chekhov,
The Bishop |
The Bishop |
|
Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav
Aschenbach |
|
Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway |
Septimus |
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby |
Gatsby |
|
William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe Christmas |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
Ship of Fools |
Echegaray, The Basque |
|
Audous Huxley,
Brave New World |
Savage |
|
John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men |
Lenny |
|
Zora Neale Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Tea Cake |
|
Eudora Welty,
Death of a Traveling Salesman |
R. J. Bowman |
|
Irene Nemirovsky,
David Golder |
David Golder |
|
Irene Nemirovsky,
Suite Francaise |
Charlie Langelet |
|
Simone De Beauvoir,
She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
|
Harold Robbins,
A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny Fisher |
|
Nevil Shute, Trustee
from the Tool Room |
John Dermott and wife |
|
Joseph Heller,
Catch 22 |
Snowden |
|
C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed |
Wife, Helen Joy |
|
Toni Morrison,
Beloved |
Sethe |
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of
Cholera |
Dr. Juveral Urbino |
|
Charles Frazier,
Cold Mountain |
Inman |
|
Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
Susie Salmon |
|
| |
Violent
Ugly
Lingering
(see also
Women:
Violent) |
|
Homer, The Iliad |
Patroklos |
|
Aeschylus, Agamemnon |
Agamemnon |
|
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
|
Euripides,
Medea |
Her
Children |
|
Euripides,
The Trojan Women |
Astyanax |
|
Plato, Phaedo |
Socrates |
|
King James, New Testament |
Jesus |
|
Hippolytus, The Story of a Maiden of Cornith |
Nobel
Youth |
|
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina |
Macrina |
|
Theodoret, Of the Massacre of Thessalonica |
Towns’
people |
|
John of Apamea, Ecclesiastical History (Fragments) |
Soldiers |
|
Jacob of Sarug, The Fall of the Idols |
Martyr |
|
Bulfinch
Mythology, Legends of Charlemagne |
Rinaldo |
|
Roswitha, Dulcitus |
Irena |
|
The Battle of Maldon |
Brythnoth |
|
Beowulf |
Beowulf |
|
Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
|
Unknown, Chanson de Roland |
Roland |
|
The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga |
Thorvald
Tafald |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Geoffrey Chaucer, Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
|
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King
Arthur |
|
Shakespeare,
Othello |
Desdemona |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
King Lear |
Cordelia |
|
Wolfgang Von Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther |
Werther |
|
Sir Walter Scott,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
|
Mary Shelley, The Last Man |
Son &
Wife |
|
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien
Sorel |
|
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Priest &
Esmerelda |
|
Charles Dickens,
Oliver Twist |
Nancy |
|
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre |
Bertha
Rochester |
|
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Arthur
Huntingdon |
|
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame
Bovary |
|
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss |
Tom &
Maggie |
|
Walt Whitman, Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier |
Frank H.
Irwin |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment |
Marmeladov |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment |
Alena
Ivanovna |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment |
Lizaveta |
|
Emile Zola, Nana |
Nana |
|
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Anna
Karenina |
|
Leo Tolstoy,
Death of Ivan Ilych |
Ivan
Ilych |
|
Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands |
Willems |
|
Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
The Tall
Soldier |
|
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosi |
Gregor
Samsa |
|
Franz Kafka,
The Trial |
Herr K |
|
Erich M. Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front |
French
Soldier |
|
William Faulkner,
Light in August |
Joe
Christmas |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
Ship of Fools |
Echegaray, The Basque |
|
Audous Huxley, Brave
New World |
Savage |
|
Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise |
Charlie Langelet |
|
Harold Robbins, A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny
Fisher |
|
Truman Capote,
In Cold Blood |
Hickock |
|
Nevil Shute, Trustee
from the Tool Room |
John Dermott and wife |
|
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 |
Snowden |
|
John le Carre',
Smiley’s People |
Leipzig |
|
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient |
English Patient |
|
Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
Susie Salmon |
|
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
|
| |
War
Battles
Soldiers |
|
Homer, The Iliad |
Sarpedon |
|
Thucydides, Pericles, The Funeral Speech |
Greek Soldiers |
|
John of Apamea, Ecclesiastical History |
Soldiers |
|
The Battle of Maldon |
Brythnoth |
|
Beowulf |
Beowulf |
|
Snirru Sturluson, Prose Edda,
The Death of Balder |
Balder |
|
Unknown, Chanson de Roland |
Roland |
|
The Sagas of the Icelanders, Viga Glum’s Saga |
Thorvald
Tafald |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Geoffrey Chaucer, Knight’s Tales |
Arcite |
|
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur |
King
Arthur |
|
Shakespeare,
Richard II |
Richard |
|
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans |
Cora &
Magua |
|
Walt Whitman, Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier |
Frank H. Irwin |
|
Steven Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
The Tall
Soldier |
|
Erich M. Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front |
French
Soldier |
|
Helen Zenna
Smith, Not so Quiet on the Western Front |
Women -
WWI |
|
Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph |
|
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 |
Snowden |
|
John le Carre',
Smiley’s People |
Leipzig |
|
Sebastien
Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement |
French Soldiers |
|
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient |
English Patient |
|
| |
Welcome
Accepted
Justifiable
Peaceful |
|
King
James, The Bible, Deuteronomy 32 & 34 |
Moses |
|
Unknown, Book of J. 177 & 178 |
Moses |
|
Euripides,
Alcestis |
Alcestis |
|
King James, New Testament |
Jesus |
|
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina |
Macrina |
|
The Holy Qur’an |
Believers |
|
Arabian Nights, Angel of Death |
The
Proud, The Devout |
|
Roswitha, Dulcitus |
Irena |
|
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat |
Omar
Khayyam |
|
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias |
Martyrs |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova |
Beatrice |
|
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus |
Faustus |
|
Shakespeare,
Richard II |
Richard |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote |
Don
Quixote |
|
Johathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travel’s |
Burial
Rites |
|
Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Little
Nell |
|
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-Seller |
Match-girl |
|
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now |
Melmotte |
|
Anton Chekhov, The Bishop |
The Bishop |
|
D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
|
Thomas Mann,
Death in Venice |
Gustav
Aschenbach |
|
Thomas Mann,
Magic Mountain |
Joachim
Ziemssen |
|
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady |
Ralph
Touchett |
|
Theodore Dreiser,
Sister Carrie |
Hurstwood |
|
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Fa. Jean
Marie Latour |
|
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
|
William Faulkner,
Delta Autumn |
McCaslin |
|
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent |
Lady
Slane |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
|
Joseph Roth,
The Radetzky March |
Emperor Francis Joseph |
|
Audous Huxley, Brave
New World |
Linda |
|
Radclyffe
Hall, Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself |
Miss
Ogilvy |
|
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men |
Lenny |
|
Zora Neale
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Tea Cake |
|
Caroline Slade, The Triumph of Willie Pond |
Willie
Pond |
|
Eudora Welty,
Death of a Traveling Salesman |
R. J.
Bowman |
|
Simone De Beauvoir, She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
|
Conrad Richter, The Town |
Mother
Sayward |
|
Carson McCullers, Clock Without Hands |
J. T.
Malone |
|
Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine |
Great-grandma |
|
Eva Figes,
Waking |
Woman in Old Age |
|
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient |
English Patient |
|
| |
| Women:
Romantic
Peaceful |
|
Euripides,
Alcestis |
Alcestis |
|
Hippolytus, The Story of a Maiden of Cornith |
Nobel
Youth |
|
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina |
Macrina |
|
J. Bedieren,
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult |
Tristan & Iseult |
|
Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova |
Beatrice |
|
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron |
Salvestra & Girolamo |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
Anthony & Cleopatra |
Cleopatra |
|
Shakespeare,
Macbeth |
Lady
Macbeth |
|
Mary Shelley, The Last Man |
Son &
Wife |
|
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Red & Black |
Julien
Sorel |
|
Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Little
Nell |
|
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights |
Catherine |
|
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women |
Beth |
|
Mark Twain, The Death of Jean |
Jean,
Daughter |
|
D.H. Lawrence,
Sons and Lovers |
Mother |
|
Marcel Proust, Guermantes Way |
Grandmother |
|
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying |
Addie |
|
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent |
Lady
Slane |
|
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
Granny |
|
Radclyffe
Hall, Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself |
Miss
Ogilvy |
|
Simone De Beauvoir, She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
|
Harold Robbins, A Stone For Danny Fisher |
Danny
Fisher |
|
Truman Capote,
A Christmas Memory |
Cousin |
|
C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed |
Wife, Helen Joy |
|
Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine |
Great-grandma |
|
Eva Figes,
Waking |
Woman in Old Age |
|
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
Sethe |
|
|
|
| Women:
Violent |
|
Sophocles,
Oedipus The King |
Jocasta |
|
Ovid, Metamorphoses |
Pyramus
& Thisbe |
|
Hippolytus, The Story of a Maiden of Cornith |
Nobel
Youth |
|
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina |
Macrina |
|
Roswitha, Dulcitus |
Irena |
|
Shakespeare,
Othello |
Desdemona |
|
Shakespeare,
Hamlet |
Ophelia |
|
Shakespeare,
King Lear |
Cordelia |
|
Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor |
Lucy |
|
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans |
Cora &
Magua |
|
Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Esmerelda |
|
Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades |
Countess
& Ghost |
|
Charles Dickens,
Oliver Twist |
Nancy |
|
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre |
Bertha
Rochester |
|
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights |
Catherine |
|
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary |
Madame
Bovary |
|
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss |
Tom &
Maggie |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment |
Alena
Ivanovna |
|
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime & Punishment |
Lizaveta |
|
Emile Zola, Nana |
Nana |
|
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Anna
Karenina |
|
Theodore Dreiser,
An American Tragedy |
Roberta |
|
Helen Zenna
Smith, Not so Quiet on the Western Front |
Women -
WWI |
|
Audous Huxley, Brave New World |
Savage |
|
Simone De Beauvoir, She Came to Stay |
Xaviere |
|
Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
Susie Salmon |
|
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt |
Mother & Pigeon |
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