Hélène Berr
The first entry in Hélène's diary is dated 7 April 1942, the same day she went to visit Paul Valéry. The last entry of her diary is dated 15 February 1944 and is written in the Palais-Bourbon arrondissement of Paris, with the last line in her diary being: "Horror, Horror, Horror!", a line from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Macduff similarly writes, "O horror, horror, horror!" But this line is also the strong reminiscent of "The horror! The horror!", as said by Kurtz, a fictional character in the last line of the novel Heart of Darkness as written by Joseph Conrad (This quote is one of the many quotes Hélène Berr used in her diary). Most of the quotes Hélène Berr used in her diary, are those of the English romantic poet John Keats, whose work she studied.