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Where was Camus born

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Mondovi, a small Algerian village

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How did Camus father die

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A war wound, all he knew was that he became violently ill at a public execution

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Where did Camus go to college and what did he specialize in

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University of Algiers, he studied sociology and philosophy

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What disease kept occurring in Camus life

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Tuberculosis

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What prize did Camus win

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Nobel prize for literature 1957

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How and where did Camus die

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Car accident outside of Paris

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What are Camus themes

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  • the absurd
  • revolt
  • the outsider
  • guilt and innocence
  • Christianity vs paganism
  • individual vs history and mass culture
  • suicide
  • death penalty
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According to Camus, where does the concept of Absurdism come from and what are the 3 examples of this

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- the idea that there is a fundamental s
Disharmony in our existence 
-physical suicide- cowardly
- religion-he calls this philosophical suicide
- acceptance-only valid solution
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Characters and Setting: How much land does a man need

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  • pahom
  • devil
  • peasant
  • dealer
  • Simon
  • Bashkirs chief
  • 20th century Russia
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Characters and Setting: Gilgamesh

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S- Uruk, Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh 
Enkidu
Humbaba
Ishtar
Ninsun 
Anu
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Characters and Setting: Eva is inside her cat

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S- lonely empty mansion, Eva's room
Eva
The boy 
Czechoslovakian friend
White cat
Imbecile men
Hot tiny insects
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Characters and Setting:The queen of spades

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Tomsk
Lizaveta 
Hermann
Lisa
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Characters and Setting: a very old man with enormous wings

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S- Pelayo and Elisenda's Courtyard
Old man
Pelayo
Elisenda 
Father Gonzaga
The neighbor women
The spider wome
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Characters and Setting: the bet

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S- 1870-1885, bankers lodge, prison
Banker
Lawyer

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Characters and Setting:beowulf

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S- Scandinavia 
Beowulf
King hrothgar
Grendel 
Grendel's mother
The dragon 
Wiglaf
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Characters and Setting: the Iliad

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S- Troy, Bronze Age
Achilles
Hector
Athena
Zeus
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Characters and Setting: death beyond constant love

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S- Rossal el virrey
Senator sanchez
Laura farina
Nelson farina

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Characters and Setting:Finn mccool

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Druid
Finn mccool
Cumhal
Grandmother
Bran
The king
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What was Camus often confused to be and why

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Existentialist because his friend sarte

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What is a rebel according to Camus

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The rebel, according to Camus,
believes that there is a “common
good more important than his own
destiny.” It is a response to the absurd.

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How did Camus show the individual vs history and mass culture

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Camus showed this by having his characters become by-products of an automated world. They became more like robots working through a meaningless type of life.

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Define existentialism

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  • existence precedes essence
  • we are the sum of our experiences
  • we come into the world existent but without a nature, without essence; we define ourselves while existing
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What does angst mean

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German for dread

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What is life

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What is freedom
one creates his own world by supplying the meanings, the interpretations, the significance for things and events
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What is bad faith
- not a value judgement (good v bad) - sartes conception of self deception - the deliberate creation in oneself of the appearance of a belief which one in fact knows to be false
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What is the famous quote about life
There is no ultimate meaning or purpose inherent in human life; in this sense life is ‘absurd.’”
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What is radical freedom
- A condition of human existence: we must commit ourselves at every moment. - Not characteristic of human nature.
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Where was Kafka born
Prague
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What was his ethnicity
Czech born in German culture
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What was Kafka's father like
Dominant, abusive, and expected Kafka to listen to him even as an adult
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What was Kafka's mother like
He liked his mother. She was peaceful modest and calm
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What was Kafka's religion
He was Jewish
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At what age did Kafka move out of his parents house
40
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Why was sending Kafka to a German school a bad idea
He was Czech and Jewish. The Germans hated both of them
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Where did Kafka's father sent him to college and what did he study
James Ferdinand university, he attempted to study chemistry then the literature but then he decided on the law
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What were the two positive things about Kafka going to college
He got a degree and he met his friend max brod
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Kafka was a very insecure person. How did this affect his life
He began to hate Jews and Czechs. Therefore he started to hate himself. His dad hated the fact that he was a writer so he started to think that he was a horrible writer
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What did Kafka refuse to do and why
Eat meat and have sex. He viewed these things as a disease to his instincts
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What was the name of the woman that Kafka fell in love with
Felice Bauer
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Explain the whole story of Kafka and Felice Bauer
He proposed to her by letter, and this letter explain why marrying him would be a bad idea. He eventually broke off the engagement by letter. He asked her to marry him again by letter. That engagement was called off again because he got sick with tuberculosis
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Who did Kafka get engaged to second
Julie Wohryzak
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How did Kafka's relationship with Julie go
It's when a little bit farther than the first. He picked out an apartment for them to live in. But then he broke off the engagement a few days before they got married by letter
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Explain Kafka's last serious affair
It was by mail with Milena Pollak
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At what age did Kafka die
41
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Where did Kafka work besides being a writer
He worked at an insurance company from 8 to 2 and then came home and wrote for the rest of the day
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What Book did Kafka right in one night
The judgment
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Who convinced Kafka to publishes works
Max brod
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How many of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime
Half of his works
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What did most of Kafka's main characters represent
Himself
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What does Samsa mean
I am alone
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What were Kafka's stories compared to
His stories always have a parable like nature. They have a deep truth

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