WMMHS 08 Final LA

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DIMMESDALE: [SL] minister of the town, had an affair with HESTER producing PEARL, becomes weaker as the novel progresses and cuts a scarlet A into his chest out of guilt, eaten away at by CHILLINGWORTH but finally thwarts him by confessing before he can publicize it, makes his peace with God and dies, present at HESTER's punishment
HESTER PRYNNE: [SL] main character, wears a scarlet A for adultery, mother of PEARL, wife of CHILLINGWORTH, had an affair with DIMMESDALE, described as dark or gray or always in shadow
AUNT HESTER: [FD] DOUGLASS' aunt, whipped severely by ANTHONY
CAPTAIN ANTHONY: [FD] DOUGLASS' first master, the clerk for LLOYD, a cruel man, enjoys whipping slaves
THOMAS AULD: [FD] LUCRETIA's husband, cruel self-righteously because of his religion
PAP: [HF] HUCK's father, a local drunk who beats HUCK and kidnaps him to a hut in the woods, from which he escapes, represents white trash and failure of family and the epitome of whiteness/pure evil
EDWARD COVEY: [FD] notorious cruel slave breaker, owns DOUGLASS for a year
MR CHARRINGTON: [1984] posing as a prole but actually a member of the TP, owns the antique shop where WINSTON and JULIA have their affair, and where WINSTON buys the diary, the pen and later, the paperweight
PARSONS: [1984] a fat and dull model Party member who lives near WINSTON, has a wife and two children, his daughter turns him in to the TP
SANDY JENKINS: [FD] another slave, kind but stereotypically superstitious, may have told master FREELAND about the escape plan
TILLOTSON: [1984] another of WINSTON's colleagues
PEARL: [SL] DIMMESDALE and HESTER's daughter, a little imp, a living hieroglyph and the living symbol of their affair, can be nasty, always in the sunlight, symbolizes the free and innocent part of HESTER and is always in nature, innocent, sinless, throughout the novel wants DIMMESDALE to stand with them on the scaffold
WM GARDNER: [FD] a shipbuilder in baltimore from whom DOUGLASS is to learn the trade of caulking when HUGH AULD owns him. shipyard is very racist
MACDUFF: [MB] loyal to MALCOLM, his family is slaughtered by MACBETH
DUNCAN: [MB] king of scotland, overly trusting and kind
HUGH AULD: [FD] THOMAS AULD's brother, lives in Baltimore, says slaves who are educated are uncontrollable and unhappy, becomes harsher but seems to see that slavery is wrong
WM LLOYD GARRISON: [FD] founder of the American Antislavery Society, meets DOUGLASS and hires him for abolitionist cause
HECATE: [MB] goddess of the WITCHES
MACBETH: [MB] scottish thane, a captain in the war with Norway, greatly ambitious, begins as Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor by Macdonwald's execution, then King by the murder of DUNCAN. spoken to by the three WITCHES, encouraged by LADY MACBETH in his murderous plot, also kills BANQUO and attempts to kill FLEANCE who are threats to his reign, has the family MACDUFF murdered as well
MARY JANE, JOANNA, SUSAN: [HF] three Wilks girls who allow DUKE and KING to almost steal their inheritance, don't take DR ROBINSON's advice that they are fakes. The money is hidden by HUCK in the coffin, he tells MJ to have it dug up, and when it is, to prove whether the KING/DUKE are the real brothers or the brothers are, the money is found and the KING/DUKE are almost hung, but they escape to HUCK's dismay and follow him and JIM
CHILLINGWORTH: [SL] HESTER's husband, absent for two years, an intellectual, deformed and older than she, poses as a physician to speak to HESTER and then to stay in DIMMESDALE's home to pull his strings and torture him to death. dies of grief when he fails to out DIMMESDALE and destroy him.
JIM: [HF] a slave of MISS WATSON who is superstitious, a father figure to HUCK, very selfless, runs away with HUCK down the river when he learns he may be sold to New Orleans, at the mercy of everyone else but shows HUCK that humanity and race are separate things, is captured by DUKE and sold to SILAS PHELPS until HUCK decides to steal him out of slavery condemning himself to hell (showing he thinks he and JIM are equal), and he is freed by MISS WATSON in her will when she dies
REVEREND WILSON: [SL] an older, more senior reverend to the town, a great authority, also at HESTER's punishment
BIG BROTHER: [1984] leader of the Party and of Oceania
DOUGLASS: [FD] the main character, a slave who becomes educated from his life in MD to life in the North where he marries, escapes slavery
DONALBAIN: [MB] MALCOLM's younger brother, flees to ireland
ANNA MURRAY: [FD] DOUGLASS' wife, a free woman from baltimore
LUCRETIA AULD: [FD] ANTHONY's daughter, inherits DOUGLASS and is cruel
HUCK FINN: [HF] the main character who is followed from his life in MO with PAP down his escape on the Mississippi with JIM to TOM SAWYER's AUNT SALLY's house, everyone thought he'd been killed at the hut because he staged it that way
O'BRIEN: [1984] a mysterious member of the inner Party who WINSTON thinks is a member of the Brotherhood but who actually works at the Miniluv
SOPHIA AULD: [FD] HUGH AULD's wife, teaches DOUGLASS but stops, becomes nasty as a result of owning slaves
MALCOLM: [MB] DUNCAN's eldest son, named prince of cumberland, more suspicious and clever than his father, flees to england
JUDGE THATCHER: [HF] cares about HUCK, keeps the money he earned in TOM SAWYER (a lot) for a dollar when PAP is returned, tries to get joint custody of HUCK with the WIDOW DOUGLAS to keep him from PAP but the new judge wants the family to stay together, though eventually the new judge reconsiders
NATHAN JOHNSON: [FD] an abolitionist in MA who is very helpful to the new DOUGLASSES
AUNT POLLY: [HF] SALLY's sister, with whom TOM lives (his mother) in MO
SYME: [1984] one of WINSTON's colleagues specializing in Newspeak dictionaries, who he thinks is too smart, and he is vaporized
GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM: [SL] governor of the town, tries to take PEARL from HESTER but DIMMESDALE convinces him not to, present at HESTER's punishment
HARRIET BAILEY: [FD] DOUGLASS' mother, walks 12 miles to see him at night, dies when he is seven
BANQUO: [MB] another captain, MACBETH's best friend but kind and loyal, murdered by MACBETH because his sons will be kings, also witnesses the prophecy; his ghost will haunt MACBETH later
WITCHES: [MB] show MACBETH prophecies of his rise to power and his fall from it
DUKE, KING/DAUPHIN: [HF] a pair of frauds with whom HUCK and JIM meet up along the river, and they have to stay with them, do many frauds including the bad Shakespeare show, the Royal Nonesuch (women and children not admitted), the scam on the Wilkses (KING acts as Harvey, DUKE as William (deaf)) and the final scam near the PHELPS' house, when they are found out and tarred and feathered
LADY MACBETH: [MB] encourages MACBETH to murder DUNCAN and comes up with most of the plan, very ambitious, gives up her sex at the outset of the play, commits suicide as the castle is attacked
BETSY BAILEY: [FD] DOUGLASS' grandmother, raises children to be slaves, abandoned to a hut when her work is done
WM FREELAND: [FD] DOUGLASS' fairest master, for two years after COVEY
WM HAMILTON: [FD] THOMAS AULD's father in law, keeps DOUGLASS sometimes, like when he is arrested for plotting to escape
FLEANCE: [MB] BANQUO's son, escapes the murderers, will later be king
COLONEL LLOYD: [FD] ANTHONY's boss, very rich, insists on extreme obedience
GRANGERFORDS, SHEPHERDSONS: [HF] two feuding families HUCK meets, BUCK G is his age and they become friends, EMMELINE G is dead, SOPHIA G runs off with HARNEY S. satire of feuding
WINSTON SMITH: [1984] minor member of the Party, the main character, 39, frail, hates the Party, rebels for political and idealogical reasons
EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN: [1984] the leader of the Brotherhood, who fell out of favor but was one of the original revolutionaries
MISTRESS HIBBINS: [SL] considered a witch by the town, sometimes grouped with HESTER
ROSS, CAITHNESS, MENTEITH, LENNOX: [MB] scottish noblemen
SHERBURN, BOGGS: [HF] SHERBURN kills BOGGS, a local drunk - satire of mob mentality and of cowardice and smalltown mentality - all side on one side of an issue
SALLY, SILAS PHELPS: [HF] TOM SAWYER's aunt and uncle, at whose house HUCK poses as TOM to steal back JIM
AARONSEN, JONES, RUTHERFORD: [1984] three men accused of criminal acts, and WINSTON finds a newpaper photo that shows them in NYC when they were supposedly elsewhere committing these crimes
TOM SAWYER: [HF] HUCK's best friend, not at all realistic but good at heart, must always make up adventures, the foil to or opposite of HUCK
AMPLEFORTH: [1984] an intelligent colleague of WINSTON's who specializes in fixing poetry, and is taken to the miniluv when he leaves "God" in a poem by Kipling
WIDOW DOUGLAS, MISS WATSON: [HF] two sisters who live together in St Petersburg and adopt HUCK. MISS WATSON represents hypocritical religious and ethical values, but WIDOW DOUGLAS is more patient, kinder, and HUCK doesn't want to disappoint her
KATHARINE: [1984] WINSTON's wife, very orthodox, no longer with him
WENDELL PHILLIPS: [FD] president of the American Antislavery society, close friend of DOUGLASS
JULIA: [1984] WINSTON's lover, works in the Fiction department, has had many affairs with Party members, rebels for her own enjoyment rather than idealogical reasons

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