SparkNotes Twitter feed is a must-follow for any Reading Addicts. Their insightful humour and literary know-how is second-to-none, and whoever runs their social media, particularly Twitter, deserves some recognition.
SparkNotes began in 1999 as online study guide project ‘Spark’, created by Harvard students, Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin. In 2001, Barnes & Noble bought SparkNotes and sold study guides in print form.
The study guides first covered literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy, and later expanded to various other academic subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, economics, maths, and sociology.
Whoever runs their social media should be very proud of the memes they create every day. Some of them may even spark your interest in a new novel- I know I will be picking up The Lady or The Tiger soon!
Odysseus: Wow I can't wait to return home to Ithaca after ten long years away!
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 3, 2020
Poseidon: pic.twitter.com/f4sFJpOHFu
Winston Smith: Okay but does Big Brother actually exist, or
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 6, 2020
O'Brien: pic.twitter.com/dUiouaonqZ
The three witches on their way to give Macbeth a prophecy that will inevitably lead to his death pic.twitter.com/uF5ucusRtR
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 9, 2020
Darcy, proposing marriage: Your family is a disgrace.
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 13, 2020
Elizabeth: pic.twitter.com/w8R6QaOzS1
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 15, 2020
Victor Frankenstein when the creature he brought to life and then rejected starts murdering people pic.twitter.com/q3ffJFp9rc
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) January 28, 2020
Persephone pic.twitter.com/u74D2t2jTC
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 4, 2020
Nick: Why would you invite Tom? Aren't you having an affair with his wife?
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 6, 2020
Gatsby: pic.twitter.com/44P5C3qtnS
Shakespeare writing his history plays pic.twitter.com/1EuGG6v2vp
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 12, 2020
Sappho whenever she's unable to finish her weaving because she's overcome with longing for a girl pic.twitter.com/pR0y7slNqf
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 14, 2020
Juliet: So Romeo's been exiled from Verona and my dad's forcing me to marry Paris. What should we do?
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) February 25, 2020
Friar Laurence: pic.twitter.com/tVkB0T5bqE
A mortal in Greek mythology immediately after boasting that they're better at something than one of the gods pic.twitter.com/HE2pJrZkCl
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 4, 2020
Achilles, just whenever pic.twitter.com/CAtYoPX6z0
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 5, 2020
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 11, 2020
WASHING YOUR HANDS & STAYING HOME
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 12, 2020
- recommended!
IGNORING THE PLIGHT OF THE COMMON FOLK BY THROWING A PARTY WITH YOUR RICH FRIENDS IN THE CASTELLATED ABBEY WHILE A MASKED STRANGER MOVES OMINOUSLY FROM ROOM TO ROOM
- not recommended
- sure hope that guy doesn't symbolize anything
Trying to keep track of everyone in One Hundred Years of Solitude pic.twitter.com/klaXPZZAlf
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 17, 2020
Jane Austen protagonists trying to avoid marrying terrible suitors pic.twitter.com/RSlUAvh3vT
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 20, 2020
Student who just
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 23, 2020
finished reading Their
"The Lady, or teacher
the Tiger?" pic.twitter.com/C3I1JMq7kk
Nobody:
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 24, 2020
The oracle at Delphi: pic.twitter.com/8zmcWbNnW1
Victor Hugo taking a break from telling the story of Jean Valjean to instead talk about Waterloo for 19 chapters pic.twitter.com/LMzPEL0CZw
— SparkNotes (@SparkNotes) March 27, 2020
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