Allusions 3 Flashcards
Faust/Faustian Bargain
Plays by Christopher Marlow
Goethe(Faust) Mephistopheles sells his soul
Has everything he desires
Despair sacrificing one self or ones value getting what one desires, often material wealth
Philistines/Philistinism
Old Testament,enemies of the Israelites, David, great philistine warrior, goliath
No appreciation for culture taste are commonplace
Coals to Newcastle
Coal mining city England
Superfluous
Giving a superfluous gift
Gracious and unnecessary
Freudan Slip
Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and psychotherapist
Subconscious mind in human behavior
Is an unconventional or accidental error in speech or actions revealing someone’s subconscious thoughts or feelings
Sisyphus or Sisyphean
Greek mythology
King who Offended Zues
Hades, Rolling a boulder up a hill then roll back to the bottom and start over again seeming endless perhaps futile
Babylon
Capital of the ancient Babylonian empire
leisurely and corrupt
Jews were excited about the prophet Daniel
Place of dependence or corruption
Pheonix/rising from the ashes
Mythological bird one-of-a-kind Five or 600 years Burn itself then arise from its own ashes Symbolize rebirth resurrection Surmounting great obstacles
Xandu
Mongolia Mongol emperor of Chin Kublai Khan Magnificent residence Poem "Kubla Khan" 1816 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Magnificent, almost magical place
Muckrakers
President Theodore Roosevelt Reformed mind journalist Badge of honor Exposed corrupted or needed Promote for reform
To authors or journalist who expos corrupt
Sin qua non
Latin “without which nothing”
Essential ingredient without which would be impossible
Methuselah
Oldest of the patriarchs in the Bible
969 years
Extremely old person
Cylla and Charybdis
Greek mythology many headed sea monster
Cave on one side of a narrow straight of whirlpool on the opposite side of the straight steer their very carefully between the two
Between to equal dangers avoiding one means getting closer to the other
Holy grail
Medieval legend object of quest
Cup from which Jesus drank at the last supper
Legends of King author and Knights of the round table perfection
Extremely and desirable not Long and difficult quest
Luddites
British laborers in early 1800’s
Opposed industrialization
Threatening there jobs
Smashed exile industry
Pass the Buck
In poker a marker that was passed
From person to person whose turn it was to deal
Is to shift the responsibly and often blame to another person
