Timeline 2

AP Lit and Comp: Novel, Novella, and Play Settings and Events

By Hambright44
  • 1268 BCE

    "Medea" Setting

    After Jason goes for Glauce, Medea goes crazy and kills Glauce and Creon. She also kills her two sons and then runs off to Athens for King Aegeus.
  • Period: 1575 to

    "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" Setting

    While the exact year that the play takes place is unknown, it occurs sometime in the late 1500s.
  • Period: to

    "Wuthering Heights" Setting

    While the exact year that the novel's events occur is unknown, the events begin right around 1770 and end on New Year's Day, 1803. Many dates and months on this timeline for "Wuthering Heights" are approximations
    Other dates can be found at: http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/timeline.php

  • Heathcliff arives at Wuthering Heights

  • Mrs. Earnshaw dies

  • Hindley goes to college

  • Mr. Earnshaw dies

  • Hindley returns with Frances

  • Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights

  • Hareton Earnshaw is born

  • Frances dies

  • Heathcliff runs away; Mr. and Mrs. Linton die

  • Catherine and Edgar marry

  • Heathcliff comes back

  • Heathcliff and Edgar fight

  • Heathcliff and Isabella marry

  • Catherine dies while giving birth to Cathy

  • Linton Heathcliff is born; Hindley dies

  • Isabella dies

  • Cathy meets Hareton

  • Linton goes to Thrushcross Grange and then Wuthering Heights

  • Cathy meets Heathcliff and Linton

  • Cathy and Linton marry

  • Edgar dies

  • Linton dies

  • Mr. Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights

  • Mr. Lockwood goes back to London

  • Heathcliff dies

  • Mr. Lockwood comes back to Thrushcross Grange

  • Cathy and Hareton marry

  • Period: to

    "Jane Eyre" Setting

    While the exact year that the novel's events occur is unknown, the events begin right around 1820 and end around 1840. Many dates and months on this timeline for "Jane Eyre" are approximations
    Other dates can be found at: http://eyreguide.awardspace.co.uk/timeline.html

  • Jane is sent to the red room

  • Mrs. Reed writes to Mr. Brocklehurst

  • Mr. Borcklehurst visits Gateshead

  • Jane arrives at Lowood School and meets Helen

  • Lowood School suffers from Typhus outbreak

  • Jane becomes a teacher at Lowood

  • Jane writes, sends, and has her ad published

  • Jane leaves Lowood and arrives at Thornfield

  • Mr. Rochester arrives at Thornfield

  • Bertha Mason sets fire to Mr. Rochester's bed, Jane thinks it was Grace Poole

  • Mr. Rochester brings a huge party to Thornfield, including Blanche Ingram

  • Richard Mason arrives at Thornfield; Bertha attacks him

  • Jane returns to Gateshead

  • Mrs. Reed dies

  • Jane leaves Gateshead

  • Mr. Rochester proposes to Jane; the chestnut tree is stuck by lightning

  • Mr. Rochester is away; Bertha tears Jane's veil

  • Jane and Mr. Rochester are to get married; Bertha's existence comes out and Jane runs away

  • Jane arrives at Moor Hosue

  • Thornfield burns down; Bertha dies: Rochester moves away

  • St. John reveals that he knows who Jane actually is, their relation, and that she has inherited John Eyre's fortune

  • St. John proposes to Jane and she says no

  • St. John asks Jane to go away with him; Jane hears Rochester's voice

  • Jane leaves Moor House, sees Thornfield in ruin, and finds Rochester at Ferndean

  • Jane and Mr. Rochester marry

  • Jane and Rochester have a son

  • Rochester regains some sight

  • Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula and meets the Count

  • Period: to

    "Dracula" Setting

    While the exact year that the novel's events occur is unknown, the events begin in May in a year in the late 1890s and end in the same year in November.
    Other dates can be found at: http://www.hotchkiss-lighting.com/dracula/chronology.html

  • Harker does not see Dracula's reflection while shaving

  • Harker sees Dracula crawl down the side of the castle

  • Harker explores the castle and has the run-in the three beautiful vampire women

  • Lucy tells Mina of her three proposals

  • Dr. Seward focuses on Renfield

  • Harker discovers all of his notes, papers, and traveling suit are gone

  • Harker finds Dracula sleeping in a box of dirt

  • Lucy starts to sleepwalk

  • Mina Murray becomes upset over lack of news of Jonathan Harker

  • The Demeter blows into Whitby

  • Lucy sleepwalks again; Mina finds her with a dark figure over her and two puncture wounds on her neck

  • Mina receives letter stating that Jonathan is at a convent in Buda-Pesth

  • Jonathan and Mina marry

  • Van Helsing comes to see Lucy

  • Jonathan and Mina return to England; wolf breaks in window and kills Lucy's mother

  • Lucy dies

  • Arthur Holmwood drives a stake through Lucy's dead body's heart

  • Van Helsing informs all the other of vampires and the group knows they need to do something

  • Mina drinks blood; Renfield dies

  • Van Helsing begins to plan how the group will find and kill Dracula

  • Van Helsing destroys the three vampire women and places a Holy Wafer in Dracula's coffin

  • Dracula is killed; Quincey Morris dies during the skirmish

  • Period: to

    "Of Mice and Men" Setting

    While the exact year that the novella's events occur is unknown, the events take place in the 1930s, sometime before 1937.
  • Period: to

    "Death of a Salesman" Setting

    While the exact year that the play's events occur is unknown, the events occur sometime in the late 1940s after World War II. Flashbacks occur approximately 15 years before present day
  • Period: to

    "A Raisin in the Sun" Setting

    While the exact year that the play's events occur is unknown, the events take place sometime in the 1950's.