English 2112 Final

Front 1

Describe Gregor's sister.
(the metamorphosis)

Back 1

Grete takes on the responsibility of being his sole caretaker. She seems to be the only one who can deal with what Gregor has turned into.

Front 2

Describe Gregor's father.

Back 2

A failure whose business downfall has sucked up all his vitality. Gregor's father finds new confidence once he is needed again,after Gregor changes he is forced to work again. His fit of rage is the catalyst for Gregor's declining health and eventual death.

Front 3

Describe Gregor's mother.

Back 3

physically and constitutionally weak woman who seems to suffer most from Gregor's change.

Front 4

Describe Gregor

Back 4

Traveling salesman who hates his job. Has to be come the sole source of income for his family when his father loses his job. Wakes up to find that he has turned into a large beetle.His human side has to struggle with his bug side.

Front 5

What is Gregor's occupation?

Back 5

He's a traveling salesman.

Front 6

Who comes from his workplace to check on Gregor?

Back 6

His boss.

Front 7

Who wrote The Metamorphosis?

Back 7

Kafka

Front 8

Where was Kafka from?

Back 8

Czechoslovakia

Front 9

The Judgement, The Trail, The Casle, Great Wall, Amerika, Penal Colony.

Back 9

All works by Franz Kafka

Front 10

Jewish author who wrote in German

Back 10

Kafka

Front 11

Lawyer

Back 11

Kafka

Front 12

Had a stutter in only his father's presence.

Back 12

Kafka

Front 13

Max Brod was his BFF

Back 13

Kafka

Front 14

Died from TB at an early age

Back 14

Kafka

Front 15

Wrote 45 pg letter to his dad, that he never sent

Back 15

Kafka

Front 16

Writer/producer of plays

Back 16

Pirandello

Front 17

Nobel Prize winner

Back 17

Pirandello

Front 18

continually questioned "what is real?"

Back 18

Pirandello

Front 19

his wife was committed

Back 19

Pirandello

Front 20

former facist

Back 20

Pirandello

Front 21

scripted improvisation

Back 21

pirandello

Front 22

theatre of ideas

Back 22

Pirandello

Front 23

meta theater: play within a play

Back 23

Pirandello

Front 24

The Excluded Woman, The Turn, Her Husband, The Imbecile,

Back 24

Pirandello

Front 25

Irish dramatist and poet

Back 25

Beckett

Front 26

most famous for his plays

Back 26

Beckett

Front 27

Started writing in English, switched to French

Back 27

Beckett

Front 28

Waiting for Godet, Krapp's Last Tape

Back 28

Beckett

Front 29

Won the Nobel Prize in 1969

Back 29

Beckett

Front 30

His characters are always waiting for something that never seems to come.

Back 30

Beckett

Front 31

Theatre of the absurd:no meaning

Back 31

Beckett

Front 32

Algerian born french author

Back 32

Camus

Front 33

Nobel Prize in 1957

Back 33

Camus

Front 34

Myth of Sisyphus, A Happy Death, The Stranger, The Adulterous Woman,

Back 34

Camus

Front 35

Born in Algeria

Back 35

Camus

Front 36

Mother was deaf

Back 36

Camus

Front 37

Killed in a car accident

Back 37

Camus

Front 38

Nigerian novelist

Back 38

Achebe

Front 39

No Longer At Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of Savannah

Back 39

Achebe

Front 40

His novels concentrate on the Igbo societies values, effects of Christian Influence, and the clash of the colonial era

Back 40

Achebe

Front 41

Hamm
(endgame)

Back 41

Blind, immobilized by old age,believes no one suffers more than he does.

Front 42

Clov
(endgame)

Back 42

Hamm's servant. Hamm took him in as a child. Tension arises because Clov wants to leave but feels the obligation to stay with Hamm.

Front 43

Nagg
(endgame)

Back 43

Nell's husband and Hamm's father. Lives in an ashbin next to his wife.
He randomly pops up to beg for food, try to kiss Nell, and tries to tell her the story she loves.

Front 44

Nell
(endgame)

Back 44

Nagg's husband and Hamm's mother. The most resigned to their way of life. Dies in the play.