The Helmer household resembles a dollhouse in that Nora, like a doll, is meant to be pretty and perform.
Nora treats her children like dolls as well.
Nora believes she saved Torvald's life by sending him to Italy for a year to recover in a warmer climate, using borrowed money.
Nora lies about eating macaroons, buying them secretly and denying it to Torvald.
Nora borrowed money from Krogstad.
Nora and Torvald have three children.
Doctor Rank's name is indicative of his condition; he is "rank" or rotting on the inside due to a congenital STD (Syphilis or Gonorrhea) inherited from his father.
Nora leaves Torvald because the "miracle" she hoped for—Torvald taking the blame for her forgery—did not occur.
Torvald reacts to the news of Nora's forgery with anger and insults, calling her a feather-brained woman and being unforgiving.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda's father was a general.
Thea helped Lovborg by encouraging him to abstain from drinking and supporting his work; she contributed to the manuscript that Hedda burned.
Hedda is contemptuous of her husband, George; she manipulates him and finds him annoying.
Hedda burns the manuscript of Lovborg's new book.
Brack knows that Hedda gave Lovborg the pistol used in his death and can use this knowledge to blackmail her.
From Hedda's perspective, Lovborg's death is ugly because he was shot in the stomach instead of the temple or breast, which she associated with courage and honor.
Reasons why Hedda kills herself:
She doesn't want to be under Brack's control.
She may be pregnant and doesn't want to be a mother.
She wants to show the world how a beautiful death is done by shooting herself in the temple.
Dracula
Dracula is an epistolary novel, made up of letters and journal entries.
Particular features of Dracula's appearance:
Red gleaming eyes
Sharp teeth
Large, pointy ears
Eastern Europe is depicted as more superstitious compared to Western Europe.
Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
Renfield is the name of the psychiatric patient treated by Doctor Seward.
Lucy becomes engaged to Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming).
Van Helsing is from Amsterdam.
Changes in Lucy after becoming undead:
Her behavior becomes more sexually aggressive and assertive.
Items that ward off vampires:
Garlic
Holy water
Consecrated host
Mina considers herself unclean because she was bitten by Dracula and sucked his blood, becoming vampiric; the consecrated host burns her forehead.
Dracula transports fifty boxes of earth to England.
Quincy Morris is killed near the end of the novel.
My Antonia
The epigraph to the novel is Optima Dies Prima Fugit, meaning "The best days are the first to flee or leave," explaining the novel's nostalgic tone.
Jake travels with Jim from Virginia to Nebraska.
The Shimerdas are originally from Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, or the Czech Republic.
One of Antonia's siblings :
Ambrose
Yoka
Peter and Pavel had to leave Russia because they pushed someone off a sled into a pool.
Mister Shimerda kills himself with a shotgun.
Jim's birthday is in January.
Children of the Harling family:
Charlie
Francis
Lena Lingard makes a living as a dressmaker.
Gaston Cleric is Jim's classics professor at the University of Nebraska, who teaches Latin and Greek and introduces him to the world of ideas.
Jim transfers from the University of Nebraska to Harvard.
Jim Burden works as a lawyer for Western Railroads.
Mister Cutter shoots his wife in the heart and then kills himself.
Resemblance between Cusack and Antonia's father: Both are sitting men who were transplanted and didn't particularly want to or like to farm; they were out of their element on the farm.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Nazis objected to All Quiet on the Western Front because it doesn't idealize or glorify war and depicts the average German soldier as an average human being, calling into question authority.
Kantorek is the schoolmaster who urged his students, including Paul, to enlist in the war.