AP Lit

Icarus

Classical Mythology

Achilles’ Heel

Classical Mythology

Oedipal Complex

Classical Mythology

Hades / Underworld

Classical Mythology

Flight of Daedalus

Classical Mythology

Wasteland / Grail Quest

Classical Mythology / Medieval Myth

Walking on Water

The Bible

Crown of Thorns

The Bible

Ark / Flood / Rainbow

The Bible

Garden of Eden / Fall

The Bible

Parting of Red Sea

The Bible

David and Goliath

The Bible

Prodigal Son

The Bible

Tower of Babel

The Bible

  • James Baldwin: "Sonny's Blues"

  • Ann Beattie: "Janus"

  • Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"

  • Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea

  • Homer: The Iliad

  • Washington Irving: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

  • Henry James: Daisy Miller

  • James Joyce: "The Dead", "Araby", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses

  • D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love

  • Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party"

  • George Orwell: Animal Farm

  • William Shakespeare: King Lear

  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

  • Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

  • John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

  • Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde