- heart of darkness (surroundings, physical journey, death, symbol - darkness, fog, the jungle/river, women)
- a prayer for Owen Meany (mentor, childhood, Christ figure, finding self, morality, death, symbol - Owen's voice, armless)
- Hamlet pretty much universal (foil, revenge, complex character, tragic hero, inner struggle, life/death, mystery, madness, secrecy, symbolic death, confidante, betrayal)
- song of Solomon (justice, leaving home, racism, discrimination, political/social issues, alienation, conformity vs questioning, culture, gender/race/class/greed, symbol - flight)
- Oedipus Rex (power, fate vs free will, parent/child conflict, tragic hero, suffering, symbol - blindness)
- a picture of Dorian Gray (past mistake, youth, superficiality, influence, death, moral ambiguity, secrecy)
- Frankenstein (dangers of society/knowledge, nature, the sublime, Romanticism, "uncivilized free and wild thinking")
- Romeo & Juliet (betrayal, secrecy, individual vs society, fate, death, "social occasion")
- Julius Caesar (betrayal, power, tragic hero)
- the things they carried (setting, death, guilt/grief/confusion)
may 8 2013 ∞
aug 2 2013 +