Textual Analysis of Literary Classics, Exams of Nursing

Download Textual Analysis of Literary Classics and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! CFII Final Textual IDs "My uncle would often be reading those evil books of misadventure for two whole days and nights on end, and then he'd throw his book down, grab his sword and slash the walls of his room..." - correct answer ✔✔Don Quixote by Cervantes; Don Quixote has just returned from his first adventure unconscious; priest, niece, and barber trying to figure out what to do with him and they are trying to argue that the best idea is to burn his books; speaker is the niece; significance is that it provides an insight into Don Quixote's hallucinations; also portrays the idea of valuing books in that time period "Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend / The supple knee? Ye will not, if I trust / To know ye right, or if you know yourselves / Natives and sons of heaven possessed before / By none, and if not equal all, yet free." - correct answer ✔✔Paradise Lost by John Milton; Raphael is telling Adam about the rebellion that happened in Heaven; Satan is riling up the other angels and saying how they shouldn't give in to God and his son since they were there first; speaker is Satan; significance is that Satan is exemplifying a stubborn epic hero by being resilient; he emphasizes his idea of being free instead of being under God's power and protection "If by any chance you meet him, tell him from me that I don't consider myself offended: I know very well what the devil's temptations are like, and that one of the greatest of them is to put it into a man's head that he can write and print a book that will earn him as much fame as money." - correct answer ✔✔Don Quixote by Cervantes, Prologue of Second Book; speaker is Cervantes; talking about how another author wrote a second part to his own book; he is poking fun at this author who ripped him off; significance is that he is talking in propria persona "Ay, sir, where lies that? If 'twere a kibe, / 'Twould put me to my slipper, but I feel not / This deity in my bosom." - correct answer ✔✔The Tempest by Shakespeare; speaker is Antonio to Sebastian; telling him that he should take advantage of their situation in order to gain rule in Naples; he has no guilt for taking the throne from Prospero; now he is in a much better position so Sebastian should do the same; significance is that he further foreshadows that Prospero has his fate in his hands and he's about to realize that his thirst for power will be his demise "What better can we do, than to the place / Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears / Watering the ground... - correct answer ✔✔Paradise Lost by John Milton; speaker is Adam to Eve; Adam and Eve are trying to figure out what to do after eating the forbidden apple; thinks they should pray and ask for forgiveness; significance is that Adam uses his logic and Christian values, which portrays him a hero; contrast from Satan, who is stubborn "A few days later the caliph said to Ja'far, 'I wish to go into the city to find out what is happening and to question the people about the conduct of my administrators, so that I may dismiss those of whom they complain and promote those they praise.' " - correct answer ✔✔Arabian Nights, translated by Haddawy; speaker is Shahrazad telling a story; the story is The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad; Harun al- Rashid is the caliph who is actually a real historical figure; the caliph would disguise himself and go from house to house in order to find out what the people really thought of him; Significance is that it is important to recognize that a corrupt leader actually cares about the common people's desires and issues "They are not fighting for the conquest of new lands, for they still enjoy that natural abundance that provides them without toil and trouble all necessary things in such profusion that they have no wish to enlarge their boundaries. They are still in that happy state of desiring only as much as their natural needs demand; anything beyond that is superfluous to them." - correct answer ✔✔Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne; speaker is Montaigne; describing his opinion on cannibals; specifically, the natives of Brazil that were discovered in conquest of New World; they were exploited by Europeans; Montaigne studied them through reading about them and interviewing those who encountered them; he admires their closeness to nature; Significance is that he's playing the devil's advocate; most people, like the Europeans who exploited them, thought they were disgusting and uncivilized; similar to Tempest because Europeans exploited the island and the character Caliban is represented as the cannibal/uncivilized person "O might I here / In solitude live savage, in some glade / Obscured, where highest woods impenetrable / To star and sunlight, spread their umbrage broad / And brown as evening." - correct answer ✔✔Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book IX; speaker is Adam; this is right after Adam and Eve eat the apple and feel good about themselves; but then they realize their nakedness and feel shame; they want to cover up their private parts with leaves; Significance is what comes with knowledge; newfound self-awareness/developed new perceptions; Eve becomes self conscious and is more critical of her image than Adam; before Eve was vain "I'm very beautiful, and I'm young, and I have much money to take with me. See if you can find a way for us to go, and there you'll be my husband if you want, and if you don't want I don't mind, because Lela Marien will give me a husband." - correct answer ✔✔Don Quixote by Cervantes; speaker is Zoraida in her first letter to the captive; context is that she wants to covert to Christianity and must be taken to Christian land; she needs to escape from her father; freedom and marriage if desired to the captive if he can help her escape; significance is that it portrays a situation of convenience; some may not see it necessarily as a love story; woman taking initiative