test 3 wl2 Flashcards
Thea Elvsted
7
Eilert Lovberg
7
Aunt Rina
7
Julie Tesman
7
George Tesman
7
Judge Brack
7
Hedda Gabler Tesman
7
Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
7
Petrovich
7
Person of Consequence
7
other clerks
7
Ivan Ilych Golovin
7
Praskovya Fedorovna Golovina
7
Vasya (Vladimir Ivanich)
7
Peter Ivanovich
7
Schwartz
7
Gerasim
7
Ibsen
Where are they from? Norway What styles or techniques of writing were used or created by them? Beginning with the problem plays, Ibsen used realistic modes of presentation in theatre.
Ordinary colloquial speech
Setting: drawing room or study
Characters enter and exit the stage naturally
What genre are they known for? Did they write successfully in other genres?
Maupassant
Where are they from? Franch What styles or techniques of writing were used or created by them? What genre are they known for? Did they write successfully in other genres?
Tolstoy
Where are they from? Russia
What styles or techniques of writing were used or created by them?Shifting narrative voice: neutral, digressing, mocking, earthy, lyrical
Ornate language
Fantastic and supernatural themes
Grotesque and realistic elements side by side
Shows human weaknesses and social injustice
What genre are they known for? Did they write successfully in other genres?
Gogol
Where are they from? Ukraine What styles or techniques of writing were used or created by them? What genre are they known for? Did they write successfully in other genres?
Flaubert
Where are they from? What styles or techniques of writing were used or created by them? What genre are they known for? Did they write successfully in other genres?
Problem play
Developed in the 19th century
Confronted controversial social issues
Rejects conventional view or conventional solutions to the problem
Treats the problem in a realistic manner
“Well-made play”
confined action to one climatic moment, created a secret to be discovered and revealed the past gradually throughout the play. However, he did not keep the happy ending and brought a serious tone to his plays.
“Le mot juste” (the right word)
7
Free indirect discourse
Narrative has little or no authorial commentary. It moves among the points-of-view of the characters. It is inside the consciousness of the characters.
(Maupassant)
Counterpoint
Narrating simultaneous scenes by cutting back and forth between them. It juxtaposes different events, contrasting them.
(Maupassant)
Tragedy
7
Hamartia (tragic flaw)
7
Femme fatale
7
Dialogue in Realist works
7
Overcoat
7
“Dressing gown”
7
Black sack
7
Curtains/window dressings and furnishings
7
Appendix/kidney
7
Pipe
7
Bread without crusts
7
Hunting gun
7
Hair
7
Pistols
7
Slippers
7
Manuscript
7
Train compartment
7
Hat
7
Piano and portrait
7
Which plot devices used by Romantic writers do Realist writers avoid entirely or make fun of in their works? (See intro to Realism)
7
Which ideas celebrated by Romantic writers do Realist writers identify as problematic in their works? How do they show that the Romantic point of view doesn’t work?
7
What are the themes? How are they illustrated/depicted? Death of Ivan Ilych:
7
What are the themes? How are they illustrated/depicted? “The Overcoat” :
7
What are the themes? How are they illustrated/depicted?Hedda Gabler
7
What are the themes? How are they illustrated/depicted?
“Hautot and his son”:
7
What elements of realism are there? Are there any unrealistic events or moments? (Compare with Tartuffe or Candide) Death of Ivan Ilych:
7
What elements of realism are there? Are there any unrealistic events or moments? (Compare with Tartuffe or Candide) “The Overcoat” :
7
What elements of realism are there? Are there any unrealistic events or moments? (Compare with Tartuffe or Candide) Hedda Gabler:
7
What elements of realism are there? Are there any unrealistic events or moments? (Compare with Tartuffe or Candide) “Hautot and his son”:
7
Objectivity is said to be the goal of the Realist writers. Do these works achieve this goal?
7
1) What techniques do the writers employ to depict contemporary life?
They write about all aspects of social life not just the rich
2) show the psychology of their characters?
•They allow you to see what they are thinking at different times throughout the story
they allow you to see what they are thinking at different times throughout the story
3) teach a lesson or say something about human life?
They depict reality that people usually avoid talking about
“All I know is that I’ve got to live here where Eilert Lovborg lives if I’m going to live at all.”
the work: Hedda Gabler the author: Henrik Ibsen the character who said it: Thea Elvstead the context: significance:
“There’s the shadow of a woman between Eilert Lovborg and me…..He said that when they broke up she was going to shoot him with a pistol.”
the work: Hedda Gabler the author: Henrik Ibsen the character who said it: Thea Elvstead the context: significance:
“Exactly as I intended—so I wrote the sort of book that everyone can agree with.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Eilert Loveborg
the context and significance of these statements.
“The future. Good Lord! We don’t know anything about that!”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: George Tesmen
the context and significance of these statements.
“In our relationship—wasn’t there any love there either? No trace? Not a glimpse of love in any of it?”
the work: Hedda Gabler the author: Henrik Ibsen the character who said it: Eilert Loveborg the context and significance of these statements.
“In mortal terror on my account? … So that, then, was how my brave, bold comrade trusted me.”
the work: Hedda Gabler the author: Henrik Ibsen the character who said it: Eilert Loveborg the context and significance of these statements.
“Don’t be angry with me, my dear, dear comrade. You’ll see. Both of you and everyone else will see that even though I once was fallen—now I’ve raised myself up again with your help.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Eilert Loveborg
the context and significance of these statements.
“I see—the one cock of the walk—That’s your goal.”
the work: Hedda Gabler the author: Henrik Ibsen the character who said it: Hedda Tesmen/Gabler the context and significance of these statements.
“For the rest of my life, it will be just like you’d killed a little child.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Thea Elvstead
the context and significance of these statements.
“It won’t stop there. I know that much. And I can’t bring myself to live that kind of life again either. Not again. Once I had the courage to live life to the fullest, to break every rule. But she’s taken that out of me.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it,
the context and significance of these statements.
“To go and destroy the thing that has filled her soul for this whole long, long time. You don’t call that heartless?”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Hedda Tesmen/Gabler
the context and significance of these statements.
“No vine leaves—I don’t believe in them any longer. But in beauty, yes!”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Hedda Tesmen/Gabler
the context and significance of these statements.
“To think that Eilert Lovborg should leave the world this way. And then not to leave behind the work that would have made his name immortal.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: George Tesmen
the context and significance of these statements.
“It’s a liberation for me to know that in this world an act of such courage, done in full, free will, is possible. Something bathed in a bright shaft of sudden beauty.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Hedda Tesmen/Gabler
the context and significance of these statements.
“All I know is that Eilert Lovborg had the courage to live life his own way, and now—his last great act—bathed in beauty. He—had the will to break away from the banquet of life—so soon.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: HeddaTesmen/Gabler
the context and significance of these statements.
“But in your power. Totally subject to your demands—And your will. Not free. Not free at all. No, that’s one thought I just can’t stand. Never!”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Hedda Tesmen/Gabler
the context and significance of these statements.
“Oh, God, if only I could inspire your husband too.”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Thea Elvstead
the context and significance of these statements.
“Shot herself! Shot herself in the temple! Just think!”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: George Tesmen
the context and significance of these statements.
“But God have mercy—People just don’t act that way!”
the work: Hedda Gabler
the author: Henrik Ibsen
the character who said it: Judge Brack
the context and significance of these statements.
“Papa, papa, poor papa!”
the work: Hautot and His Son
the author: Guy De Maupassant
the character who said it: Cesar Hautot
the context and significance of these statements.
“I might have made a will…I have not done so! I did not want to…you must never write things down…not things of that sort…it is bad for the rightful heirs…then it muddles up everything…it ruins everyone…Look you, never go in for legal documents, never have anything to do with them. If I am rich it is because I have avoided them all my life.”
the work: Hautot and His Son
the author: Guy De Maupassant
the character who said it: The Elder Hautot
the context and significance of these statements.
“You cannot tell these things to everybody, either to the notary or to the priest. These things happen, everyone knows that, but no one talks about them except when they are obliged. Then again there must be no outsider in the secret, nobody except the family, because a family is the same as an individual! You understand?”
the work: Hautot and His Son the author: Guy De Maupassant the character who said it: The Elder Hautot the context and significance of these statements.
“Oh! no, don’t go! don’t go! Don’t leave me all alone with Emile. I would die of grief. I have nobody in the world, nobody but my little one. Oh! what misery, what misery, Mr. César. Do sit down. Tell me some more. Tell me how he spent his time at home.”
the work: Hautot and His Son the author: Guy De Maupassant the character who said it: Caroline Donet the context and significance of these statements.
“In spite of grief one must go on living, you are surely not going to refuse. Then that will keep you here a little longer. When you are gone, I don’t know what I shall do.”
the work: Hautot and His Son
the author: Guy De Maupassant
the character who said it: Caroline Donet
the context and significance of these statements.
“ ‘He screamed unceasingly, not for minutes but for hours. For the last three days he screamed incessantly. It was unendurable. I cannot understand how I bore it; you could hear him three rooms off. Oh, what I have suffered!’ ”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: Leo Tolstoy the character who said it: Praskoya Fedorovna the context and significance of these statements.
“Each one thought or felt, ‘Well, he’s dead but I’m alive!’ “
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: Leo Tolstoy the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“The expression on the face said that what was necessary had been accomplished, and accomplished rightly. Besides this there was in that expression a reproach and a warning to the living.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: Leo Tolstoy the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: Leo Tolstoy the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“The syllogism he had learned from Kiesewetter’s Logic: ‘Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,’ had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to him.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
the author, the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“IT would come and stand before him and look at him, and he would be petrified and the light would die out of his eyes, and he would again begin asking himself whether IT alone was true.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author, the character who said it, the context: significance of these statements.
“ ‘We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?’—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: Leo Tolstoy the character who said it: Gerasim the context: significance:
“It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
the author,
the character who said it: Ivan Ilyich
the context and significance of these statements.
‘Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done,’ it suddenly occurred to him. ‘But how could that be, when I did everything properly?’ he replied, and immediately dismissed from his mind this, the sole solution of all the riddles of life and death, as something quite impossible.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
the author,
the character who said it: Ivan Ilyich/narrator
the context and significance of these statements.
“For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force. He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself. …He felt that his agony was due to his being thrust into that black hole and still more to his not being able to get right into it. He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
the author, the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“The dying man was still screaming desperately and waving his arms. His hand fell on the boy’s head, and the boy caught it, pressed it to his lips, and began to cry. At that very moment Ivan Ilych fell through and caught sight of the light, and it was revealed to him that though his life had not been what it should have been, this could still be rectified.”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
the author, the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“ ‘Yes, I am making them wretched,’ he thought. ‘They are sorry, but it will be better for them when I die.’”
the work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich the author: the character who said it: Ivan Ilyich the context and significance of these statements.
“And long afterward, during moments of the greatest gaiety, the figure of the humble little clerk with a bald patch on his head appeared before him with his heart-rending words, “Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?” and within those moving words he heard others: “I am thy brother.” And the poor young man hid his face in his hands, and many times afterward in his life he shuddered, seeing how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savage brutality lies hidden under refined, cultured politeness, and, my God! even in a man whom the world accepts as a gentleman and a man of honor…”
the work: The Overcoat
the author: Nikolai Gogol
the character who said it,
the context and significance of these statements.
“If rewards had been given according to the measure of zeal in the service, he might to his amazement been even found himself a civil councillor; but all he gained in the service, as the wits, his fellow clerks, expressed it, was a button in his buttonhole and hemorrhoids where he sat.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“I must admit that Akaky Akakievich’s overcoat had also served as a butt for the jokes of the clerks. It had been deprived of the honorable name of overcoat and had been referred as the ‘dressing gown.’”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“His whole existence had in a sense become fuller, as though he had married, as though some other person were present with him, as though he were no longer alone but an agreeable companion had consented to walk the path of life hand in hand with him, and that companion was none other than the new overcoat with its thick padding and its strong, durable lining.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“That whole day was for Akaky Akakievich the most triumphant and festive day in his life.”
the work:The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“He stepped into the square, not without uneasiness, as though his heart had a premonition of evil.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it, the context and significance of these statements.
“ ’How dare you? Do you know to whom you are speaking? Do you understand who I am?’ “
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it: the person of consequence the context and significance of these statements.
“The Person of Consequence, pleased that the effect had surpassed his expectations and enchanted at the idea that his words could even deprive a man of consciousness, stole a sideway glance at this friend to see how he was taking it, and perceived not without satisfaction that his friend was feeling very uncertain and even beginning to be a little terrified himself.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it: the context and significance
“But who could have imagined that this was not all there were to tell about Akaky Akakievich, that he was destined for a few days to make his presence felt in the world after his death, as though to make up for his life having been unnoticed by anyone? But so it happened, and our little story unexpectedly finishes with a fantastic ending.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it: the context and significance of these statements.
“Orders were given to the police to catch the corpse regardless of trouble or expense, dead or alive, and to punish him severely, as an example to others, and indeed, they very nearly succeeded in doing so.”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it: the context: significance:
“Ah, so here you are at last! At last I’ve…er…caught you by the collar. It’s your overcoat I want; you refused to help me and abused me into the bargain! So now give me yours!”
the work: The Overcoat the author: Nikolai Gogol the character who said it: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin the context: the significance:
