More Accurate, English Lit-Friendly, Book Titles

The Grapes of Wrath: Poor People Suffering Under Unjust Capitalist System Make Really Angry Symbolic Grapes
Wicked: SJW Badass Undone By Unjust Totalitarian Society and Ten-Year-Old With Bucket of Water, Is Tragic As Fuck
Moby Dick: Captain Is Dick to Symbolic Whale
Life of Pi: Bullshit Story About Tiger Taken As Legit By Unsuspecting Reader, Reader Is Strangely Okay With This
The Kite Runner: Kabul Local Is Dick to Friend, Atones By Running Symbolic Kite
Perfume: Look At This Creepy Talented Fuck: The Oderiferous Edition
The Poisonwood Bible: Religion Is Poison and Your Country's A Dick: The Africa Edition
To Kill A Mockingbird: Society Is Racist, Classicist, and Sexist, Also Kills Innocent Birds
Heart of Darkness: Imperialist Shit Trippy As Hell, I Want Out
Crime and Punishment: Sympathetic Creep Tries To Forego Conscience Through Murder And Fails: The Russian Edition
Hamlet: Complexity of Moral Dilemma Undoes Charismatic Intellectual
Macbeth: Sympathetic Creep Tries To Forego Conscience Through Murder And Fails: The Scottish Edition
King Lear: Bad Character Judgment Undoes Idiot King, Established Order Falls Apart
Romeo and Juliet: Love Is Great And Then You Die. Or It Dies. Either Way It's Terrible
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Love Is Like A Dream: Fickle, Random, and Trippy as Fuck
Pride and Prejudice: You Can Marry For Love And Be Filthy Rich!: Every Girl's Fantasy, Admittedly
Les Misérables: Isn't Suffering Ennobling and Beautiful?: A Christian-Friendly Love Story
East of Eden: Moral Complexity Subverts Garden of Eden Bullshit
Of Mice and Men: Cruelty Kills, Er, Cruelly
The Phantom of the Opera: Look At This Creepy Talented Fuck: The Musical Edition
The Magic Mountain: Sanitorium Is Trippy As Hell, I Want In
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Superstitious Bullshit Causes Vicious Cycle of Suffering, Is Hilarious
Great Expectations: Oppressive Class System Is Full of Shit, Protagonist Slowly Realizes
A Tale of Two Cities: Oppressive Class System Leads To Violence, Also Poignant Redemption of Drunkard
Harry Potter: Boy Wizard Fights Evil Wizard In Battle Between Good and Evil, Is Better Than It Sounds
Love In the Time of Cholera: Love Is A Lot of Things But It Ain't True Pal: A Love Story
The Scarlet Letter: Symbolic Letter Screws Up Local Woman's Life, Also Patriarchy
The Odyssey: Very Long Trip Home For Dick Protagonist
Frankenstein: Science Makes Me Uncomfortable I Think It's Evil: A Symbolic Cautionary Tale
Dracula: Sexuality Make Me Uncomfortable I Think It's Evil: A Conservative's Musing
Stargirl: Unconventional Girl Gets Bitch-Slapped By Conventional Society, Says Sayonara
The Casual Vacancy: Vacuous Small Town Bullshit Has A Death Count, No Joke
The Great Gatsby: Aren't Rich People Glamorous and Tragic?: A Sycophant's Love Story
11,369 notes
  1. book-before-you-leap reblogged this from militarizedsubconscious
  2. motherofmajesticflapflaps reblogged this from motherofmajesticflapflaps
  3. bokdragen reblogged this from runawaybookcase
  4. tenuous-grace reblogged this from the-eldritch-it-gay
  5. rightcat reblogged this from theclassicsreader
  6. lostboyz4now reblogged this from valeria2067
  7. oneoffreckles reblogged this from plu-viophilia
  8. una-speranza reblogged this from aspiringhuman-v22
  9. kandastic reblogged this from aliteraryescape
  10. yesmyotpiszutara reblogged this from thequeenofsastiel
  11. thequeenofsastiel reblogged this from callmeasinnercallmeasaint45
  12. wash-tell-me-im-pretty reblogged this from belanekra
  13. callmeasinnercallmeasaint45 reblogged this from belanekra
  14. belanekra reblogged this from alwaysthemillenniumfalcon
  15. alwaysthemillenniumfalcon reblogged this from austennerdita2533
  16. that-one-theater-thing reblogged this from storm-pirate
  17. storm-pirate reblogged this from austennerdita2533
  18. esmenotessiee reblogged this from austennerdita2533
  19. austennerdita2533 reblogged this from ksfd89
  20. cto10121 posted this