Word Cloud
Oooh pretty. Lot's of cleanup needed lol and I had to revise how many stopwords I used just so that the prettiest words pop out. Turns out novels tend to have a massive amount of topics and important words covered. Who knew?
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Gatsby's Gatsby(Daisy)
I think I speak for all of us when I say I'm not surprised a book's main topic would be its titular character. But you'd be wrong. I did this with Robinson Crusoe and apparently, Robin isn't as narcissistic as Gatsby. Very interesting that the "materialist book has "car, face, look, young, life" as one of those things that just pop out. Also moment, does really capture that "moment"ness of the book.
02
Pride and Prejudice
Really just homes in on the fact that PnP is very much a character driven drama. There aren't any words that aren't as big as the names of the characters in the story. If they aren't names, they're words for people "father, mother, sister".
03
Wuthering Heights
I expected as much. Heathcliff is the only main focus here. Wish and long are interesting. The book is mainly about that "what if": what if circumstances were different and we were allowed to fall in love. I think Wuthering Heights is the Conclusion to Paradise Lost by Milton, what happens after the Fall of Adam and Eve.
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The code I used. Stopwords at the bottom.
"said", "mr", "mrs", "miss", "one", "two", "would", "could", "also", "like", "get", "go", "may", "might", "shall", "want", "thing", "things", "make", "just", "much", "many", "every", "come", "came", "even", "well", "way", "though", "now", "still", "never", "always", "must", "can", "cannot", "should", "back", "first", "second", "last", "see", "seem", "seemed", "see", "seen", "know", "known", "knew", "good", "better", "best", "put", "let", "take", "taken", "made", "making", "say", "saying", "say", "says", "tell", "told", "tells", "telling", "time", "new", "old", "year", "years", 'i', 'me', 'my', 'myself', 'we', 'our', 'ours', 'ourselves', 'you', 'your', 'yours', 'yourself', 'yourselves', 'he', 'him', 'his', 'himself', 'she', 'her', 'hers',
'herself', 'it', 'its', 'itself', 'they', 'them', 'their', 'theirs', 'themselves', 'what', 'which', 'who', 'whom', 'this', 'that', 'these', 'those', 'am', 'is', 'are', 'was', 'were', 'be', 'been', 'being', 'have', 'has', 'had', 'having', 'do', 'does', 'did', 'doing', 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'if', 'or', 'because', 'as', 'until', 'while', 'of', 'at', 'by', 'for', 'with', 'about', 'against', 'between', 'into' 'through', 'during', 'before', 'after', 'above', 'below', 'to', 'from', 'up', 'down', 'in', 'out', 'on', 'off', 'over', 'under', 'again', 'further', 'then', 'once', 'here', 'there', 'when', 'where', 'why', 'how', 'all', 'any', 'both', 'each', 'few', 'more','most', 'other', 'some', 'such', 'no', 'nor', 'not', 'only', 'own', 'same', 'so', 'than', 'too', 'very', 's', 't', 'can', 'will', 'just', 'don', 'should', 'now', 've', 'll', 'amp', "!"