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| 15552738698 | oedipus | a tragic king of thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother | 0 | |
| 15552738699 | tiresias | blind prophet that tells oedipus of all the things he will do and has done | 1 | |
| 15552738700 | jocasta | oedipus' wife and mother, sends oedipus to be killed | 2 | |
| 15552738701 | creon | brother of jocasta, became the king of theves after the fall of oedipus | 3 | |
| 15552738702 | laius | murdered by oedipus, oedipus' father, jocasta's first husband | 4 | |
| 15552738703 | the plague | favishes the city, up to oedipus to end it, in order to end it, the murderer of former king laius needs to be executed | 5 | |
| 15552738704 | jocasta's suicide | hung herself in her bedroom after discovering the news of her relationship with oedipus + the murder or laius | 6 | |
| 15552738705 | oedipus' blinding | he cannot see the truth of his life, after learning the truth, he gouges his eyes out so he can no longer see the truth | 7 | |
| 15552738706 | theme of fate | -the audience knows the prophecy is true, but oedipus continues to deny it and say that it will not happen. -he is determined to flee his fate, without realizing that it already happened -contributes to his destruction | 8 | |
| 15552738707 | theme of pride | -oedipus thinks he can control his fate -says he can run away from the prophecy -he is too proud to see the truth of the prophecy play out which leads to him blinding himself | 9 | |
| 15552738708 | theme of family obligation | -ironic, because the family connections are more than typical families | 10 | |
| 15552738709 | greek theatre | - prior knowledge of mythology -non commercialized -thespis separated actor from chorus -very simplistic -sophocles' plays were very well-known | 11 | |
| 15552738710 | tragic hero | -noble/royal birth -tragic fall that leads to downfall | 12 | |
| 15552738711 | gregor samsa | -traveling salesmen, hates job but keeps it to pay for his family debt -transformed into a vermin -can no longer contribute to his family -family resents him -dies in the end | 13 | |
| 15552738712 | first line | "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. " | 14 | |
| 15552738713 | monstrous vermin | ugly insect that gregor turns into | 15 | |
| 15552738714 | grete | -gregor's sister -puts in the most effort to help gregor -plays the violin, shows her growth -eventually wants to get rid of him -undergoes her own metamorphosis | 16 | |
| 15552738715 | gregor's wish for grete | he can no longer support her career and passion for music which makes him depressed, he wants her to take care of him and support him and further her career | 17 | |
| 15552738716 | gregor's father | -relies on gregor for financial support -forced to work again -expresses hostility towards gregor -hits him with apple | 18 | |
| 15552738717 | gregor's mother | -faints at sight of bug -torn between her love for him and her disgust at his new body -protected from the reality of gregor's metamorphosis | 19 | |
| 15552738718 | loss of humanity | -takes a new form as as bug -resentment from his family -taking away his furniture -discussions of getting rid of him | 20 | |
| 15552738719 | financial responsibility evolution | -grendel was the main provider -couldn't work with his new body -father has to get a job, hire cheap mades, rent out rooms in the house | 21 | |
| 15552738720 | the hurled apple | -thrown at gregor by his father -severely injures him -shows that his father no longer sees him as a human | 22 | |
| 15552738721 | the boarders | -a person who rents a room from another person -family had to rent rooms to boarders in order to get income -shows that the family is on their last hope | 23 | |
| 15552738722 | alienation | -isolation and separation from everyone -gregor is isolated by his family -taking away the furniture -making him stay in his room | 24 | |
| 15552738723 | franz kafka | czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) | 25 | |
| 15552738724 | gregor's desire to remain human | -wanted family to treat him the same -internal conflict of being able to be the family provider | 26 | |
| 15552738725 | heorot | mead hall raided by the monster | 27 | |
| 15552738726 | who is grendel descended from | cain | 28 | |
| 15552738727 | What king does beowulf go to help? | hrothgar | 29 | |
| 15552738728 | what land is hrothgar from? | denmark | 30 | |
| 15552738729 | how long was the mead hall empty? | 12 years | 31 | |
| 15552738730 | who thinks beowulf was not a hero? | grendel | 32 | |
| 15552738731 | what kind of poem is beowulf? | epic poem | 33 | |
| 15552738732 | epic poetry | -long narrative poem -almost superhuman character -supernatural forces -quest | 34 | |
| 15552738733 | scop | -old english poet -translated oral poetry to written poetry | 35 | |
| 15552738734 | kenning | the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities | 36 | |
| 15552738735 | who is loyal to beowulf? | wiglaf | 37 | |
| 15552738736 | how does beowulf defeat grendel? | -rips his arm off -grendel runs away and bleeds out | 38 | |
| 15552738737 | what does heorot symbolize? | all the good things in the world of beowulf and grendel | 39 | |
| 15552738738 | saxons | german-dutch | 40 | |
| 15552738739 | angles | southern danish (south denmark) | 41 | |
| 15552738740 | significance of oral traditions | way that anglo-saxons told their lives, beliefs, customs and what they valued | 42 | |
| 15552738741 | why was beowulf translated by a christian poet? | -england recently converted to christianity -translated to entertain with knowledge and information | 43 | |
| 15552738742 | the ram (aries) | -chapter 1 -new life -mating season in spring -spiritual + nature rebirth | 44 | |
| 15552738743 | the bull (taurus) | -chapter 2 -mechanical chaos - | 45 | |
| 15552738744 | the fish (pisces) | -chapter 12 -beowulf -christianity + holiness | 46 | |
| 15552738745 | the goat (capricorn) | -chapter 10 -climbing up towards heaven (christianity) -transition from paganism to christianity | 47 | |
| 15552738746 | the twins (gemini) | -chapter 3 -represent grendel's internal conflict between the truth of the history of the danes and the poetic words of the shaper | 48 | |
| 15552738747 | the crab (cancer) | -chapter 4 -grendel backed away "crab-like" -moody and introverted like a crab | 49 | |
| 15552738748 | the lion (leo) | -chapter 5 -dragon takes the place of an actual lion -wise and proud of his wisdom | 50 | |
| 15552738749 | the virgin (virgo) | -chapter 6 -apple fight with a boy that ends with "a poor miserable virgin) | 51 | |
| 15552738750 | the scales (libra) | -chapter 7 -hymgod shows characteristics of libra | 52 | |
| 15552738751 | the scorpion (scorpio) | -chapter 8 -hrothulf shows characteristic of scorpio -determined with a dark side | 53 | |
| 15552738752 | the archer (sagittarius) | -chapter 9 -shows honest and caring characteristics of grendel | 54 | |
| 15552738753 | the water bearer (aquarius) | -chapter 11 -ocean carrying the strangers to grendel's domain | 55 | |
| 15552738754 | do rask's actions represent an extraordinary man | rask thinks his actions do, but in reality they do not | 56 | |
| 15552738755 | treatment of women in c&p | -poorly -two choices: marry rich or prositution | 57 | |
| 15552738756 | significance of st. petersburg | -poor and dirty -educated people that were poor with no potential to climb classes | 58 | |
| 15552738757 | dunya | -rask's sister -engaged to the rich + powerful luzhin -breaks engagement to take her power back | 59 | |
| 15552738758 | svidrigailov | -dunya's former employer -threat to rask + dunya | 60 | |
| 15552738759 | razumikhin | -rask's friend -intelligent + hard working despite his poverty -rask's foil | 61 | |
| 15552738760 | porfiry | detective that pursues rask as a suspect in the murder | 62 | |
| 15552738761 | marmeladov | -sonya's father -drunk -public official for rask | 63 | |
| 15552738762 | alyona | pawnbroker that rask kills for the well-being of the people she steals money from | 64 | |
| 15552738763 | rask's alienation | thought murdering the pawnbroker would make him the extraordinary man, but it just made him depressed and alienated from society | 65 | |
| 15552738764 | lazarus story | -sonya uses to teach rask about christianity -jesus raised lazarus from the dead | 66 | |
| 15552738765 | sonnet | a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 67 | |
| 15552738766 | types of sonnets | Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean) | 68 | |
| 15552738767 | iambic pentameter | five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 69 | |
| 15552738768 | intertextuality | the relationship between texts, especially literary ones. | 70 | |
| 15552738769 | myth of sisyphus | condemned to roll the boulder up the hill, fated to failure | 71 | |
| 15552738770 | existentialism | people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions | 72 |