Final Exam Flashcards
(14 cards)
1
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Candide
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Englightenment
2
Q
Frankenstein
A
Romantic
3
Q
A Tale of Two Cities
A
Victorian
4
Q
1984
A
Modernism
5
Q
Taming of the Shrew
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Lenses
6
Q
Candide/Englightenment themes (5)
A
- Superiority of Intellect
- Use of reason and belief in cause anad effect relationships
- Deism
- Skepticism towards doctrines of the church
- Panglossian philosphy
7
Q
Deism
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God created the world and then stepped back (cultivating garden at the end)
8
Q
Who does Voltaire’s Panglossian philosophy parody?
A
Gottfried Leibniz
9
Q
Frankenstein/Romantic themes (8)
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- Reaction against Enlightenment views
- Man as naturally good but hindered by civilization
- Imagination over reason
- Emotion and feeling
- Natural world vs industrial world
- Pantheism and nature
- Self; emotion and feeling; the sublime
- Gothic themes
10
Q
Pantheism
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God is everywhere
11
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Gothic themes (6)
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- Isolated protagonist
- Horror
- Villian as the epitome of evil
- Fallen hero
- Setting is gloomy and mysterious
- Omens
- Suffering is imposed on an innocent hero
12
Q
A Tale of Two Cities/Victorian themes (5)
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- Hero as a rational man of virtue
- Human natural fundamentally good with errors in judgement
- Emphasis on well rounded middle class characters
- Characters who blend virtue and vice
13
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1984/Modernism themes (4)
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- Technology
- Human behavior
- Alienation
- Presence of the past
14
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Taming of the Shrew/Lenses (1)
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- Feminist approach
