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AP English Literature & Composition Mrs. Willoughby-Hull

The Adventures of Augie March Allusion Research Assignment

Literary Term ---- Allusion:a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, mythology, or even pop culture.

*************DUE: Monday, February 2, 2015***************

Allusion / Origin (Definition) / Inference or Meaning in the Novel
Chapter & page #
Almanach de Gotha:
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Baths of Caracalla:
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Bolingbroke:
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Bolsheviks:
Allusion / Origin (Definition) / Inference or Meaning in the Novel
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Cato and (Marcus Junius) Brutus:
Chapter 16 - Caligula:
“We wasted our time with him, Augie…. He’s no good. He’s chicken!” cries Thea, devastated. Augie reflects to himself, “It was hard to take this from wild nature, that there should be humanity mixed with it.” / He was reputed to be one of Rome’s most evil emperor whose reign is remembered for his cruelty, insanity, as well as his sexual proclivities/promiscuity, but he was also known in a small way for his success at consolidating power at the expense of the Roman Senate until his assassination by the Praetorian Guard. Unfortunately, the negative far outweighed the positive. / Caligula is referenced 26 times in the novel. My inference is based on the inherent strength and meaning in the name “eagle,” yet the eagle does not live up to its name in the text; hence the comparison with Caligula as the Emperor of Rome who did not live up to his title of mighty king/ruler and was assassinated because his people did not like how he ruled.
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Coptic:
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Cossack:
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Diogenes of Si nope:
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GP (Russia):
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Guy Fawkes:
Chapter XIV - Hagar:
Was the old
Commissioner fond of me? While Mrs. Arnhem was a kindly woman
ordinarily, now and again she gave me a glance that suggested Sarah
and the son of Hagar. Notwithstanding that there was nothing to worry about. Nothing. I wasn't of the blood, and the old man had dynastic ideas too. And I wasn't trying to worm my way into any legacy and get any part of what was coming to her elegant and cultivated son Arthur. / She was an Egyptian slave and the concubine of Abraham, from the Bible. Because of Hagar’s mistreatment of Sarah, Abraham’s first beloved wife, Hagar and her son Ishmael were sent away to live in the wilderness of the desert and had to learn to hunt. / Augie used this allusion to Hagar the slave in the Bible’s story since after Hagar had Abraham’s child Ismael, she treated Abraham’s wife cruelly and tried to usurp her place in his affections as she was the mother of Ismael, Abraham’s first born, but Ismael had not been approved by God to be Abraham’s heir. In the same way, Mrs. Einhorn seemed to feel like this about Augie based on the allusion in the text. Mrs. Einhorn basically believes that Augie is important enough to be a threat to her son’s place in their family.
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Heraclitus:
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(Samuel) Insull:
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Janissary:
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Julius Rosenwald
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Kaddish:
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Klabyasch (also klaberjass and klob):
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La Giaconda:
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(Niccolo) Machiavelli:
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(Karl) Marx:
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Old Man of the Sea
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Pasiphae:
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Pentateuch:
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Plutarch:
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Praetorian Guard:
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(Augusto Cesar) Sandino
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Scythians: