Circe

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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27

Themes

All Themes Power, Fear, and Self-Preservation Women, Power, and Misogyny Change, Initiative, and the Self Mortality, Fragility, and Fulfillment Family and Individuality

Characters

All Characters Circe Prometheus Helios Telegonus Aeëtes Telemachus Pasiphaë Daedalus Glaucos Hermes The Minotaur Scylla Medea Odysseus Athena Penelope Jason Perses Perse Trygon Minos Zeus Kronos Tethys Ariadne Polydamas Alke Icarus Lampetia Phaethousa Polyphemus Artemis Achilles Oceanos Elpenor Eileithyia Boreas Apollo

Symbols

All Symbols Scars Gold

Literary Devices

All Literary Devices Allusions Dramatic Irony Foil Foreshadowing Genre Imagery Irony Logos Metaphors Mood Motifs Paradox Pathos Personification Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone

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Circe

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Madeline Miller

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Introduction Intro

Plot Summary Plot

Summary & Analysis

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27

All Themes
Power, Fear, and Self-Preservation
Women, Power, and Misogyny
Change, Initiative, and the Self
Mortality, Fragility, and Fulfillment
Family and Individuality

All Symbols
Scars
Gold

All Literary Devices
Allusions
Dramatic Irony
Foil
Foreshadowing
Genre
Imagery
Irony
Logos
Metaphors
Mood
Motifs
Paradox
Pathos
Personification
Setting
Similes
Situational Irony
Style
Tone

Theme Wheel Theme Viz

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