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Setting
Point of View
Character
Organization
Conflict
100
How setting in Othello reveals two sides of human behavior
What is Cyprus, where human nature is uncontrolled by civil officials, and Venice, where it is overly controlled by republican officials and their rules of decorum.
100
How the form of narration in Heart of Darkness "protects" Marlowe/Conrad from the truth.
What is they have a third party tell the story for them, so they need not face the truth head on.
100
"Marlowe" tells you that women live in a make-believe world, which would suggest that they are weak. However, there are strong female characters in his book, which suggests he's wrong about that. Identify two strong women in Heart of Darkness and how they show their strength.
What is his aunt and Kurtz's mistress.
100
The climaxes of Heart of Darkness and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What is when Marlowe speaks to Kurtz, who dies saying "The horror. The horror," and when the patients have a big party and MacMurphy fails to leave the hospital.
100
An internal conflict in Othello.
What is Othello struggling to have confidence in himself. (Answers will vary.)
200
The major settings in Heart of Darkness
What is the white city, the steam boat, the jungle, the station, and Kurtz's station.
200
Form of narration in Beloved.
What is free indirect style?
200
The ways in which McMurphy functions as an anti-hero: one who has traits opposite of traditional heros.
What is He is a gambler and he encourages the men to break rules.
200
The climaxes of Othello and Beloved.
When Othello listens to Cassio talk about Bianca and has a fit in response and when the community comes to rescue Sethe from Beloved.
200
An internal conflict in Cuckoo's Nest
What is MacMurphy trying to decide whether to sacrifice himself to help the other men become independent. (Answers will vary.)
300
How does setting reveal theme in Heart of Darkness?
What is as Marlowe moves further into the heart of Africa he sees further into the barbaric heart of man.
300
When and how the narrative style in Beloved shifts to reflect the madness of the characters.
What is When the thoughts of Denver, Beloved, and Sethe meld into a stream-of-consciousness poem, reflecting their loss of individual identity.
300
McMurphy's epiphany: the point at which he realizes how the hospital works.
What is When he is in the swimming pool and realizes that the nurse can keep him in the hospital as long as she likes?
300
Each book we've read involves an important journey away from supposed civilization. Identify where each main character travels and what s/he learns there. (Prize to the group with the most correct answers.
Marlowe travels to the Congo and learns that "civilized" men are actually barbarians; Othello travels to Cyprus and learns that without the constraints of society, warriors are dangerous; Cheif travels away from the hospital and learns to regain his natural strength; Gawain travels to the Green Knight's court and learns to accept the human (faulty) side of himself; Sethe travels away from sanity and learns that she must face the past in order to heal.
300
The central conflict in Beloved
What is characters trying to learn to live with the past?
400
How settings in Cuckoo's Nest reveal theme.
What is the more unnatural a setting is--and the more controlled by the nurse--the more distorted the behavior of patients and staff.
400
The form of "narration" that allows Shakespeare to show us the disconnect between Iago's outer appearance and inner thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
400
Characters who function as foils to each other. (Points go to the group with the most valid pairs.)
Who are Othello and Iago, Desdemona and Emilia, Paul D. and Halle, Baby Suggs and Sethe, Cassio and Iago, Marlowe and Kurtz, The mistress and the Beloved, MacMurphy and Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched and the Japanese nurse.
400
The Climax of Beloved
What is when Sethe tells Paul D. that she killed Beloved and he decides to leave 124.
400
The main conflict in Heart of Darkness.
What is Marlowe trying to adjust his world view to accommodate the horrid behavior of Europeans he sees in the Congo?
500
The colors associated with the main settings in Beloved
What is Sweethome is green, Alfred Georgia is watery, Ohio is grey, the emerald closet and the clearing are green.
500
The advantage of using Chief as narrator in Cuckoo's Nest.
What is allows us to see how McMurphy is affecting the thinking of patients. (Answers will vary.)
500
Stock characters from the books we've read. (Prize to the group with the most. Please identify what stock character they represent.)
What is Roderigo as the Buffoon, Othello as the warrior, Desdemona as the maiden, Iago as the demon, Sixo as the African, Bodwin as the white liberal, Billy Bibbet as the momma's boy, MacMurphy as the rebel, the accountant as the fop, the general manager as the schemer.
500
The novels told in flashbacks.
What is Heart of Darkness, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and--in part--Beloved.
500
The main characters we've read who FAIL to resolve their central conflict.
What is Marlowe and perhaps Sethe?