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Midterm Flashcards

1
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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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5
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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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9
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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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21
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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.

22
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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
23
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What does angst mean

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German for dread

24
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What is life

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Choice

25
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What is freedom

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one creates his own world by supplying the meanings, the interpretations, the significance for things and events

26
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What is bad faith

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  • 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
27
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What is the famous quote about life

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There is no ultimate meaning or purpose inherent in human life; in this sense life is ‘absurd.’”

28
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What is radical freedom

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  • A condition of human existence: we must commit ourselves at every moment.
  • Not characteristic of human nature.
29
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Where was Kafka born

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Prague

30
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What was his ethnicity

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Czech born in German culture

31
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What was Kafka’s father like

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Dominant, abusive, and expected Kafka to listen to him even as an adult

32
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What was Kafka’s mother like

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He liked his mother. She was peaceful modest and calm

33
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What was Kafka’s religion

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He was Jewish

34
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At what age did Kafka move out of his parents house

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40

35
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Why was sending Kafka to a German school a bad idea

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He was Czech and Jewish. The Germans hated both of them

36
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Where did Kafka’s father sent him to college and what did he study

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James Ferdinand university, he attempted to study chemistry then the literature but then he decided on the law

37
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What were the two positive things about Kafka going to college

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He got a degree and he met his friend max brod

38
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Kafka was a very insecure person. How did this affect his life

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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

39
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What did Kafka refuse to do and why

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Eat meat and have sex. He viewed these things as a disease to his instincts

40
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What was the name of the woman that Kafka fell in love with

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Felice Bauer

41
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Explain the whole story of Kafka and Felice Bauer

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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

42
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Who did Kafka get engaged to second

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Julie Wohryzak

43
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How did Kafka’s relationship with Julie go

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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

44
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Explain Kafka’s last serious affair

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It was by mail with Milena Pollak

45
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At what age did Kafka die

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41

46
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Where did Kafka work besides being a writer

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He worked at an insurance company from 8 to 2 and then came home and wrote for the rest of the day

47
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What Book did Kafka right in one night

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The judgment

48
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Who convinced Kafka to publishes works

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Max brod

49
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How many of Kafka’s works were published during his lifetime

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Half of his works

50
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What did most of Kafka’s main characters represent

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Himself

51
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What does Samsa mean

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I am alone

52
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What were Kafka’s stories compared to

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His stories always have a parable like nature. They have a deep truth

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