Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Stephen Crane Flashcards
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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn what does he use to tie the episodes together?
He uses common setting to tie the episodes together.
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How does Clemens criticize human weakness?
By using satire.
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What did he make into an artistic form?
He made a colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form.
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From your notes, what 2 things is he described as?
He is described as a humorist and a satirist.
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What made him famous?
He was made famous by a tall tale.
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What ideas does Crane express in his work?
1) environment and heredity play a major role in shaping lives.
2) men are caught in an indifferent, puzzling universe.
3) blind fate determines mans course.
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In God Fashioned The Ship of the World Carefully, the ship travels on the sea with-
He travels on sea with no direction.
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In what poem does Crane show the futility of mans pursuit of happiness?
“I Saw A Man Pursuing the Horizon “
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His writings probed the inner workings of what?
Of a young soldiers mind.
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What is the theme of The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky?
The conflict between civilization and rugged individualism is exemplified in the clash between the settled east and the uncivilized west.
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What is the theme of God Fashioned the Ship of the World Carefully?
Both God and the world are responsible for the worlds directionless course.
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What is the theme of I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon?
The pursuit of happiness is absurd.
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What is the theme of A Man Said to the Universe?
Whatever controlling power may exist feels no obligation to man.
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What is the theme of Should the Wide World Roll Away?
The ultimate values are only human values.
