The Red and the Black
Stendhal
hypocrisy as a method in chapters 1 to 15 of Book I and as a system in the seminary in chapters 16 to 30 of Book I.
Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis
Sofia displayed as a showcase (chapter XXXV), the driver and the slander that the narrator hands back to the reader (chapter LXXXIX, chapter CVI), the tear of Sofia in which Rubião believes (chapter CXV), the bank that did not exist (chapter CXXIX), and the honeymoon of grandeur that ends (chapter CXXXVIII).
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
the invented genealogy (chapter III), Marcela who sold appearances (chapter XV), Lobo Neves's confidence (chapter LVIII), the social lie of Jacó Tavares (chapter LXXXVII), opinion (chapter CXII), and the Turkish veil (chapter CXXVII).
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
the eyes of an oblique and dissimulating gypsy (chapter XXV), the cheerfulness Capitu shows in order not to confirm the denunciation (chapter LXV), the strange expression in Ezequiel's eyes (chapter CXXXI), Escobar's photograph (chapter CXXXIX).
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
the inn that is a castle (chapter II of Part One), the windmills that are giants (chapter VIII of Part One), the flocks that are armies (chapter XVIII of Part One), the basin that is a helmet (chapter XXI of Part One), the rule of feeling the appearances (chapter XI of Part Two), the peasant woman whom Sancho enchants and the smell of raw garlic (chapter X of Part Two), the Knight of the Mirrors who has the bachelor's face (chapter XIV of Part Two), the cave the narrator does not vouch for (chapter XXIV of Part Two), and the enchanted boat that is a boat (chapter XXIX of Part Two).
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
the neighbor who greets you outwardly and despises you inwardly (chapter II of Book II), the cypresses that change meaning with mourning (chapter III of Book II), the empty words that each person fills with their own meaning (chapter IV of Book II), the peace of the countryside that lies in the one who feels it (chapter VIII of Book II), the five imbeciles in one Moscarda (chapter VIII of Book III), the blind one who is the other (chapter III of Book IV), the city in which each person lives inside the other's illusion (chapter V of Book V), the Moscarda in the mirror who winks and is already another (chapter III of Book VI), and the reality that others give, which may seem truer than one's own (chapter IV of Book VII).
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
the gestures of the wake (ch. I), the yardstick of the best-placed people (ch. II), the house like everyone else's who want to look rich (ch. III), the doctor who wears the judge's air (ch. IV), the room as a screen (ch. VI), and the talk about Sarah Bernhardt's realism (ch. VIII).
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
the trappings and suits of woe in scene 2 of Act I, the Ghost in scene 5 of Act I, the spies in scene 2 of Act II, and the play within the play in scene 2 of Act III.