vocabulary 2 Flashcards

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“Ulysses”

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by Alfred Lord Tennyson, details the end of Ulysses’ life

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The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock

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by T.S. Eliot, a poem detailing a guy attending a party and thinking about his relationship with a woman to whom he wants to confess to but is afraid of rejection

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Banality of Evil

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a theory posed by Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt and states that the true evil is not willful or malicious but rather thoughtless

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the stars

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ends every one of the canticles

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“Play”

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written by Samuel Beckett. Starts with an indistinguishable chorus, has the narration of a man, his wife, and his mistress, five second blackout, and they repeat. They ask voices about their predicament to the roving spotlight.

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Eternal Recurrence

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theory made by Friedrich Nietzsche, asks whether or not one would ever be okay to made a choice if they knew they would be forced to repeat that choice for the rest of eternity

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sin vs. vice

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vices are predilections towards sins and can be purged

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free will and responsibility

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we cannot be responsible for our sins if we do not have free will, and therefore cannot be damned or redeemed

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the simple little soul

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that young souls are sinless and run towards the hand of God like little children

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poetry and fraud

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Dante sets himself up as Ovid’s successor and therefore we have to not only watch the pilgrim but the poet as well

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poetry and moral responsibility

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Dante believes poetry has a responsibility to be spiritual and bring people closer towards God and those who don’t do it are committing a kind of sodomy

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