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39 Cards in this Set
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Bourgeoisie
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Bourgeoisies on the top
Bourgeoisie - "the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labors" (219) |
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Proletariat
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Proletariat on bottom
Proletariat- "the class of modern wage-laborers who have no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live." (219) |
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Manifesto
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"...a printed declaration, explanation, or justification of policy..."
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Capitalism
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Capitalism - teleoglically driven toward profits
How do we get profits? Through innovation, consolidation, and minimal regulation (free market = exploitation) Capitalism creates 2-class system - bourgeoisie and the proletariate - rises out of the Industrial Revolution Capitalism leads the economic inequality |
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Communism
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Teleologically driven to economic equality
Favors collectivism in a classless society Abolishes private ownership in hopes of leveling the playing field toward equality Socialism - advocates state ownership of industry (total regulation) and capital (money) Communism and socialism are opposed to capitalism |
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Planned obsolescence
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"the production of goods with uneconomically short useful lives so that customers will have to make repeat purchases
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Teleologically driven
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End driven
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Totalitarianism
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when the state controls everything in both public and private life
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Dictatorship
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Absolute authority given to one individual.
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Existentialism
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emphasizes the (depressing?) reality and significance of human freedom and experience
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Existential crisis
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"includes the inner conflicts and anxieties that accompany important human issues of purpose, responsibility, independence, freedom, and commitment... A persuasive and persistent feeling that one's life is meaningless - that there is a void that can never be filled in a meaningful way"
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Defining commitment
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the thing that makes you who you are
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Oedipus complex
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mother's/son's unhealthy fixation on each other
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Grotesque
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distorted, incongruous, or inappropriate to a shocking degree
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History of society is a history of class struggles
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Medival Hierachy
Clergy on Top Knights & Nobility in the middle Peasant at the bottom Renaissance Hierarchy Aristocrats/Nobility at the top Merchants in the middle Peasants at the bottom Industrial Revolution create twos classes Bourgeoisies on the top Proletariat on bottom |
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How does the Industrial Revolution create a 2-class society?
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Bourgeoisies on the top
Proletariat on bottom |
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What are Capitalism and Communism teleologically driven toward?
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Capitalism - teleoglically driven toward profits
Teleologically driven to economic equality |
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How do you destroy the bourgeoisie? (1) Abolition of private property, (2) Abolition of the family (know the 3 ways that abolition of the family will happen), (3) abolish countries and nationalities, (4) Nationalize the means of transport, communication, and industry?
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Look at notes...kay?
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How is Modernism in literature similar to modern art and music?
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Book of the Grotesques – what makes people grotesques?
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Fundamentalism makes people grotesque, because fundamentalism reduces life to only one meaning
Distorted, incongruous, or inappropriate to a shocking degree |
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Alienation as theme
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Alienation frequently comes about as a result of an existential crisis
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Biblical parallels in “Godliness” section – 1. Abraham and Isaac, 2. David and Goliath, 3. Job, 4. Prodigal Son (potentially)
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Book of the Grotesques is a "parable of truths" p. 6
People make truths for vague ideas |
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How are tests of character and tests of faith used in this book?
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"Tandy" - The Stranger that comes to Winesburg to quit drinking (140)
"The Strength of God" and "The Teacher" - Rev. Hartman and Kate Smith (152) Layers of objectification |
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How does “What’s past is prologue” fit in to the fact that George leaves Winesburg?
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George can leave only after having reached a point of recognition that "what's past is prologue."
The little details will be important - perhaps more so than the big picture (252) |
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George Willard (also is the old writer in The Book of the Grotesques)
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Running thread throughout the book
Works for the town newspaper, Winesburg Eagle Gathers stories about local people |
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Wing Biddlebaum
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Wing Biddlebaum, Dr. Reefy - men whose defining commitments are lost or dead
Nostalgia for a simpler, innocent past (like before the Great War) |
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Dr. Reefy
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Wing Biddlebaum, Dr. Reefy - men whose defining commitments are lost or dead
Nostalgia for a simpler, innocent past (like before the Great War) Dr. Reefy's philosophy of love (226) |
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Elizabeth Willard
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Elizabeth Willard - George Willard's mother - wants George to express himself for both of them, p. 24-25
Sexual repression/obsession as a young woman. Sex followed by regret. Elizabeth is not allowed to develop into a full human being - leads to alienation George's sexual encounters mirror his mother's - sex followed by shame/regret (Nobody Knows) Most of the people having sex are trying to address their alienation, but they only make it worse |
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Jesse Bentley
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Bentley farm stories - p. 56-7, 86-7; capitalism
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Louise Bentley
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Louise Bentley and David Hardy - her son - fear of loss leads to risk taking, being vulnerable (prospect theory) - p. 63-4
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David Hardy
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Louise Bentley and David Hardy - her son - fear of loss leads to risk taking, being vulnerable (prospect theory) - p. 63-4
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Alice Hindman
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Alice Hindman - exposed herself in an adventure, but felt ashamed.
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Wash Williams’s Wife
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Wash William's wife- exposes herself in an attempt to win back her husband, but he is disgusted by her. (p.119)
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The Stranger in “Tandy”
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"Tandy" - The Stranger that comes to Winesburg to quit drinking (140)
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Rev. Hartman
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The Strength of God" and "The Teacher" - Rev. Hartman and Kate Smth (152)
Layers of objectification |
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Kate Swift
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"The Strength of God" and "The Teacher" - Rev. Hartman and Kate Smth (152)
Layers of objectification |
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Helen White
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George Willard leaves for Chicago after having a last, sweet encounter with Helen White
Less alienation, growing maturity (246, 247) |
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Enoch Robinson
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Enoch Robinson - painter, "Loneliness" - artist's intentions, questioning authority (167-68)
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Tom Foster
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Tom Foster - possibly the happiest character - from Cincinnati, willing to take risks, open to learning - even though suffering (221) "Drink"
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