課程名稱︰西洋文學概論
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰陳玲華、古佳艷、鄭秀瑕輪教
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2007.4.3
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
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試題 :
I. Identify the speaker of each passage quoted from Agamemnon, The Eumenides,
Oedipus the King, and Medea. A name list is printed here for your
reference: Apollo, Jocasta, Orestes, Furies, Oedipus, Athena,
Clytaemnestra, Tiresias, Corinthian messenger, Chorus, Agamemnon,
Cassandra, Aegisthus, Creon, Jason, Medea. (24%)
1. They knew the men they sent,
but now in place of men
ashes and urns come back
to every earth.
2. Look at it this way first:
who in his right mind would rather rule
and live in anxiety than sleep in peace?
Particularly if he enjoys the same authority.
3. Give me the tributes of a man
And not a god, a little earth to walk on,
not this gorgeous work.
4. You criticize my temper...unaware
of the one you live with, you revile me.
5. So I have come to save the lives
Of my boys, in case the royal house should harm them
While taking vengeance for their Mother's wicked deed.
6. You said thieves─
he told you a whole band of them murdered Laius
So, if he still holds to the same number,
I cannot be the killer. One can't equal many.
7. For so much suffering,
I tell you, someone plots revenge.
A lion who lacks a lion's heart,
he sprawled at home in the royal lair
and set a trap for the lord on his return.
8. And now you'd vent your anger, hurt the land?
Consider a moment. Calm yourself. Never
render us barren, raining your potent showers
down like spears, consuming every seed.
II. Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (27%)
1. At Athens, before the ancient court of the _____, the Furies argue
eloquently, but Apollo himself arrives to testify that he ordered Orestes
to act. (a) Acropolis (b) Thebes (c) Areopagus (d) Cithaeron
2. At some time in the late sixth century B.C., the Athenians converted what
seems to have been a rural celebration of _____, a vegetation deity
especially associated with the vine, into an annual city festival at which
dancing choruses, competing for prizes, sang hymns of praise to the god.
(a) Dionysus (b) Apollo (c) Athena (d) Zeus
3. The baby Oedipus is abandoned to die on the rock of _____. (a) Areopagus
(b) Navelstone (c) Parnassus (d) Cithaeron
4. Tantalus was the son of Zeus and honored by the gods beyond all the mortal
children of Zeus. He had his only son _____ killed, boiled in a great
cauldron, and served to the gods. (a) Thyestes (b) Pelops (c) Teiresias
(d) Niobe
5. _____ will send unfavorable winds to prevent the sailing of the Greek
expedition from Aulis, the port of embarkation. She will demand the
sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia as the price of the fleet's
release. (a) Artemis (b) Diana (c) Furies (d) Hera
6. The Peloponnesian War began in 431 B.C., the year Euripides's Medea was
produced. It was to end in 404 B.C. with the total defeat of _____.
(a) Sparta (b) Corinth (c) Thebes (d) Athens
7. In the final play Oedipus at _____, Oedipus is a titantic figure, confident
of his innocence and more masterful than he has ever been. (a) Colonus
(b) Thebes (c) Corinth (d) Argos
8. _____ is concerned with a female sex-strike against war. (a) Lysistrata
(b) Birds (c) Clouds (d) The Acharnians
9. Aeschylus beloned to the generation that fought at Marathon; his manhood
and his old age were passed in the heroic period of the _____ defeat of
Greek soil. (a) Persian (b) Spartan (c) Cretan (d) Mycenaean
III. Answer TWO of the folloing essay questions. (51%)
1. Define Aristotle's conception of "plot" as one of the six constituent parts
of tragedy; explain why Aristotle picks out "deus ex machina" in Medea as
an inappropriate device for "the denouement of the plot."
2. Comment on Apollo's and Athena's arguments for the acquittal of Orestes in
The Eumenides.
3. define the comic devices associated with the adjective "Aristophanic."
4. How do Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus vindicate their brutal revenge on
Agamemnon as "a masterpiece of Justice"?
5. Analyze the character of Oedipus, his total personality, as a crucial cause
of his own tragedy. Or, define Oedipus as a tragic hero in terms of
Aristotelian theory.
6. Discuss the recurring imagery of the "net" in the Oresteia. Explain how
that image is related to the them of justice in the trilogy.
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