When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (5.31)
- John Webster (6.1)
- William Blake (8.1)
- Bram Vermeulen (8.84)
- William Shakespeare (9.38)
- J. W. von Goethe (10.1)
- Lewis Carroll (11.1)
- Lord Byron (17.1)
- Pierre Bonnard (22.1)
- John Berger (23.1)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (3.6)
- Robert L. Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth (4.1)
- Bible (7.60)
- Michelangelo, "David" (8.4)
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (9.1)
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (9.50)
- Benjamin Jonson, "It Is Not Growing Like a Tree" (12.102, 17.79)
- William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (13.33)
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (15.1)
- Bible, Book of Ecclesiastes (19.1)
Historical References
- World War II (throughout)
- Anne Frank (1.100, 3.1, 4.18)
- Rembrandt (8.12)
- Battle of Arnhem (13.1)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (23.44)
- President Kennedy (23.44)
Pop Culture
- My Own Private Idaho (8.4)
- Madonna (8.26)
- John Lennon (12.40)