up:: [[Allusion MOC]] (not included in the LYT Kit) # Some Allusions from Literature - Babbitt – a self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals, like material success. Comes from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. - Cinderella – one who gains affluence or recognition after being treated poorly. - Don Juan – a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with women. - Don Quixote – someone overly idealistic to the point of being unrealistic. From the Cervantes character in The Man of La Mancha, by Dale Wasserman and Mitch Leigh. - Frankenstein – anything that threatens or destroys its creator. From Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. - Jekyll and Hyde – a capricious person with two sides to his personality. From the novel of the same name. - Lothario – used to describe a man who seduces women. From The Fair Penitent, by Nicholas Rowe. - Scrooge – a bitter and/or greedy person. From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. - Svengali – a person with an irresistible hypnotic power; from 1984, by George Mauriers.