Characters
This character, brother of Antigone, launches an attack against Thebes with the help of a foreign army.
Who is Polynices?
This playwright won many theatre competitions in his lifetime and his works were praised by Aristotle in his theory on theatre. He is particularly famous for his Theban plays.
Who is "Sophocles"?
In his novel 1984 Orwell speculates on how the future might turn out by emphasizing the ways a present situation could turn ugly. This society Orwell portrays is ruled by fear. For this treatment of a nightmarish future, his novel belongs to the genre of ________ novel.
What is "dystopian"?
The author of this highly popular trilogy about hairy-footed unlikely heroes based his writing on his own and his son’s experience of living under and fighting against "evil forces" during (blank) and (blank).
What is "World War I" and "World War II"?
Gandalf says the following about this member of the Company of the Ring: “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost . . .
Who is Strider/Aragorn?
If Creon as the head of the State evokes the law of Zeus, Antigone evokes the law of this god.
Who is "Hades"?
Dostoevsky is often associated with this school of philosophy, whose main thinkers include Jean Paul Sartre and Soren Kierkegard.
What is Existentialism?
In the play The Island, two black prisoners decide to perform the story of Antigone because they see that Creon's injustice to Antigone is parallel to the injustice of this _____ regime to non-white South Africans.
What is apartheid?
This island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned by apartheid South Africa, is the setting for a play titled The Island.
What is Rhoben Island?
The Underground Man blames this (blank) for his inability to take action.
What is "hyper-consciousness"?
Besides holding a cigarette, the Man who says he is Robert Zwelinzima, but whose real name is actually Sizwe Bansi, also holds a __________ in his hand in the photoshoot at Style’s photo studio.
What is a cigar?
JRR Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring first time in this year.
What is 1959?
In this novel the first-person narrator makes a convincing case against the “rational egoists” and utopian socialists of his era, who claimed that the application of reason alone could perfect the world.
What is Notes from Underground?
This play by Athol Fugard, titled titled __________, highlights the Prohibition of Mixed Marriage Act of 1949 in South Africa.
What is A Statement after An Arrest under the Immorality Act?
This “… Laws” issued by the apartheid government of South Africa in 1952 is heavily criticized in the play Sizwe Bansi Is Dead.
What is "Pass Laws"?
or, What is "Passbook Laws"?
This beloved character says the following: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
Who is "Gandalf"?
Both Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island were devised through a series of improvisation by a white South African playwright, Athol Fugard, and two black South African actors/activists: John Kani and this man.
Who is Winston Ntshona?
The (blank) is more than simply an element of setting: the monotony of the weather and the dreariness of the winter time echoes the changelessness and dreariness of the Underground Man’s alienated life. It also links the parts that our narrator recalls: his reunion with former classmates and later with Lisa.
What is "wet snow"?
In his theory on Greek tragedy Aristotle defines this .... as “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and fear in the audience. He is considered a man of misfortune that comes to him through error of judgment.”
What is a "tragic hero"?
This kingdom is where Antigone’s father/brother is raised after being found by a shepherd as a baby.
What is Corinth?
This character says the following: "Take it, Buntu. Take this book and rea it carefully, friend, and tell me what it says about me. Buntu, does that book tell you I'm a man? That bloody book ...! ... Wherever you go ... it's that bloody book."
Who is "Sizwe Bansi"?
This author was to sent to a labor camp in Siberia.
Who is "Fyodor Dostoevsky"?
This building is a symbol of power for Dostoevsky’s Underground Man.
What is "crystal palace"?
According to Aristotle's book on theatre, when we watch the tragedy of Oedipus or Antigone, we will experience fear and pity. Later we will be purified of these pity and fear. Aristotle calls this purification __________.
What is catharsis?
The Fellowship of the Ring is narrated in the third person perspective, following Frodo throughout most of the narrative, but occasionally focusing on the points of view of other characters. The narration is said to be …, which means the narrator not only relates the characters’ thoughts and feelings, but also comments on them.
What is "omniscient"?