Y'all remember SparkNotes? The gracious gift that kept on giving during your high school years by summing up the plot of classic books and plays into easy-to-follow study guides? Well, it turns out they are now also MEME LORDS via Twitter.
Nobody: Mr. Darcy: https://t.co/xsMFoqpTUA
No seriously, their social media manager needs a raise immediately.
Here are just a few of the absolute NERDIEST memes they've shared over the past few months (that also may inadvertently help you with that AP Lit final):
1. Romeo and Juliet:
2. The Tell-Tale Heart:
3. Frankenstein:
The creature: Victor Frankenstein:
4. Pride & Prejudice:
Mrs. Bennet: "If you go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all!" Elizabeth:
5. The Great Gatsby:
6. Hamlet:
flowchart: should you murder your uncle? did he kill your father so he could marry your mother and steal the throne for himself? | | yes maybe / \ do it do it but procrastinate a lot
7. The Odyssey:
Poseidon: Did you blind my son Polyphemus? Odysseus:
8. Jane Eyre:
Mr. Rochester: Be my wife. Jane Eyre: But you already have a wife. Mr. Rochester:
9. The Catcher in the Rye:
A taxi driver: Holden Caulfield:
10. The Yellow Wallpaper:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
11. Antony and Cleopatra:
Me whenever there’s a minor inconvenience
12. Wuthering Heights:
Heathcliff to Catherine: Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I? Nelly Dean, who’s standing like right over there:
13. Oedipus:
14. The Crucible:
Abigail: I saw Goody Proctor with the devil! Goody Proctor:
15. 1984:
Winston Smith: Okay but does Big Brother actually exist or O'Brien:
16. Macbeth:
17. Les Misérables:
18. Lord of the Flies:
Simon in Lord of the Flies
19. Othello:
Othello: Wait but I thought you said my wife was cheating on me. Iago:
20. The Scarlet Letter:
21. To Kill A Mockingbird:
Atticus: Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you. Scout:
22. The Phantom of the Opera:
Every woman I know: beautiful, pure of heart, fantastic singing voice Every man I know: lives in the basement, plays nonstop organ music, wears a mask and drops chandeliers on innocent bystanders when his protégée isn’t allowed to perform in the opera's starring role
23. And finally, literally ANY Greek tragedy:
Nobody: The oracle in a Greek tragedy: https://t.co/HRK90jChGH