Time Line

By jjt.411
  • 430 BCE

    Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

    • Tragic Hero
    • Connection to Hamlet
    • Aristolean trade by and first tragic hero
  • 8 BCE

    The Odyssey by Homer

    • Epic Poetry
    • Greeks
  • 700

    Beowulf (Unknown Author)

    • Epic Poetry
    • Allusions to the Bible
  • 1392

    Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Medieval
    • Connections to Beowulf
  • 1516

    Utopia by Thomas More

    • 16th Century
    • Connections to The Praise of Folly

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    • Elizabethan
    • Connected to West Side Story
    • Tragic story

  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

    • Jacobean
    • Connection to Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Thomas North’s translation)

  • Othello by William Shakespeare

    • Elizabethan
    • Connections to the Bible and the story of Venus and Mars (mythology) and Macbeth

  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare

    • Jacobean, Tragedy
    • connections to The Odyssey

  • Paradise Lost by John Milton

    • Poem, epic, and Restoration period
    • Connections to the Bible

  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathon Edwards

    • Puritan
    • Connected to The Crucible

  • Poe Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

    • Gothic
    • Tragedy

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

    • Classicism/Romanticism
    • Connected to Chapman’s Northanger Abbey

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    • Gothic
    • Connected to Paradise Lost

  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

    • Romantic and Victorian
    • Connected to The Great Gatsby

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    • Victorian
    • Connected to the Gospel of Matthew

  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    • Victorian
    • Connected to the Bible

  • Flatlands by Edwin Abbott

    • Victorian
    • Connected to the Bible

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    • Victorian and Modernism
    • connections to the Bible

  • My Antonia by Willa Cather

    • Modernism

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

    • Lyrical style reminiscent of ancient spiritual texts
    • connections to the Alchemist

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • Modernism
    • allusions to the Great Depression

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    • Modernism
    • allusions to the Great Depression

  • 1984 by George Orwell

    • Dystopian, modernist
    • connections to Mein Kampf

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

    • Modernist Work

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

    • Contemporary, war era
    • Reference to Doxology and connected to the Bible

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    • Post war, post modern
    • connection to the brutality of World War II

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    • Dystopian, contemporary, and post modern
    • Connections to the Bible

  • West Side Story by Arthur Laurents

    • Contemporary
    • Modern story of Romeo and Juliet

  • A Separate Place by John Knowles

    • Bildungsroman
    • connections to World War II
    • Realism, historical fiction

  • Night by Wiesel

    • biography, memoir
    • connected to the Book Thief

  • A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt

    • biography, historical drama
    • connected to Utopia

  • Malcom X / Beloved by Malcom X and Alex Haley

    • Biography
    • historical fiction, realism
    • connections to the Civil Rights Movement

  • House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    • feminist novel
    • one of the first famous Chicano writers
    • coming of age

  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

    • Contemporary
    • Transcendentalism

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

    • Historical fiction
    • Modern classic
    • connections to the Holocaust