English I: Midterm Study Guide - LOTF, Macbeth, & Supplementary Texts (pt. 3)Version en ligne
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Who's belief about human nature matches to this quote? “After the war... I had discovered what one man could do to another... Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.”
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Who said this quote? “Nazi Germany was a particular kind of boil which burst in 1939. That was only the same kind of inflamed spot we, all of us, suffer from. And so I took English boys and said, “Look, this could be you."
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Who said this quote? “Watch out: the evil is in all of us.”
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What did Golding believe was necessary?
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What makes a good citizen? What characteristics do they have? What do they care about? What do they do?
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What makes a good ruler? What characteristics do they have? What do they care about? What do they do?
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What is "The Stanford Prison Experiment" about? What question does it ponder?
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What is “Picture of Childhood” about?
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What is “All There is to Know About Adolf Eichmann” about? What question does it ponder?
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Who is Ralph a foil to?
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Who is Jack a foil to?
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What does the conch represent in LOTF?
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What does the "Beast" represent in LOTF?
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What does the fire represent in LOTF?
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What does the actual "Lord of the Flies" represent in LOTF?
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What does Piggy's glasses represent in LOTF?
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What does Simon represent in LOTF?
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When comparing right and wrong, who could be two characters from LOTF that could strongly debate this statement? "In general, people know the difference between right and wrong and act according to what they think is right."
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Which author was a son of a glove-maker: middle/working class, father was likely illiterate?
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Which author did not go to college like the “university wits” (contemporary playwrights who were educated at prestigious and aristocratic universities like Oxford or Cambridge)?
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Which author wrote comedy, tragedy, and history plays. Also wrote poetry (sonnets)?
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What type of play is "Macbeth?"
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What was The War of the Roses?
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What did people believe made a king? What right do they have to rule? What makes them deserving?
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In “Macbeth” Shakespeare juxtaposes supernatural elements with...
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What's the Tudor Succession?
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What does the bloody dagger symbolize in Macbeth?
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What does the blood that won't wash off symbolize?
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Which of these options clearly identify Duncan’s murder as unnatural in every way?
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Like the witches predict, Macbeth goes from Thane of ______ (small territory in Scotland) → Thane of ______ (bigger, more important/prestigious territory in Scotland) → King of ________
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What similarities and differences do you see between the societies in THG, LOTF, and Macbeth?
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