課程名稱︰西洋文學概論
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰鄭秀瑕.古佳艷.陳玲華三人輪教
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006/03/31
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試題 :
I. Identifiacation 30%
Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in
Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; yea, a sword shall
pierce through thy own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be
revealed.
Q1. Who is speaking to whom?
Q2. Who is "this child" in the first clause?
Q3. How do the three beasts--leopard, lion, and she-wolf--encountered by Dante
the traveler relate to the three major forms of sin in Hell?
Q4. Which of the three forms is the least serious morally?
Q5. To which circle of the Inferno does Virgil belong?
Love, that can quickly seize the gentle heart,
took hold of him because of the fair body
taken from me--hoe that was done still wounds me.
Love, that release no beloved from loving,
took hold of me so strongly through his beauty
that, as you see, it has not left me yet.
Q6. Who is "him"?
Q7. Who is "me"?
Five times the light beneath the moon had been
rekindles, and, as many times, was spent,
since that hard passage faced our first attempt,
when there before us rose a mountain, dark
because of distance, and it seemed to me
the highest mountain I had ever seen.
And we were glad, but this soon turned to sorrow,
for out of that new land a whirlwind rose
and hammered at our ship, against her bow.
Q8. Who are "we"?
Q9. What is "the highest mountain"?
But Virgil had deprived us of himself,
Virgil, the gentlest father, Virgil, he
to whom I gave my self for my salvation;
and even all our ancient mother lost
was not enough to keep ny cheeks, though washed
with dew, from darkening again with tears.
Q10. What did our ancient mother lost?
Q11. Who had washed the speaker's cheeks with dew?
Q12. At whose bidding was the speaker's face washed with dew?
In the deep and bright
essence of that exalted Light, three circles
appeared to me; they had three different colors,
but all of them were of the same dimension;
one circle seemed reflected by the second,
as rainbow is by rainbow, and the third
seemed fire breathed equally by those two circles.
Q13. What does "one circle" signify?
Q14. And "the second" (circle) also?
Q15. What does the third circle signify?
II. Explication 30% -- Answer the following in one sentence each.
1. As Jesus breathed his last on the cross, "behold, the veil of the temple
was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" (Matthew 27: 51a). The
Norton footnote to "the weil of the temple" says it was the curtain that
screened off the holy of holies, traditionally forbidden to non-priests.
What change in God-man relationship does this tearing of the veil signify?
2. Before his convention, recorded in Book VIII of confessions, St. Augustine
says he still shrank from "dying unto death and living unto life." What
does he mean by these two actions?
3. Dante and Virgil's trip to the Inferno ends at the center of the earth. How
do they get to Purgatory from there?
4. Why is Dante the trveler told to wear "a smooth rush around his waist"
before climbing the Mount of Purgatory (Pugatorio I, 95) ?
5. On reaching the Earthly Paradise, Virgil the guide crowns and miters Dante
the teaveler over himself. Why?
III. Short answer 40% -- Answer th following questions in a few sentences.
1. Jesus says he is not come to destroy the law or the prophets, but to
fulfill them: "Foe I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:20). One of the "law of
equity" decreed in Exodus demands that the wrongdoer give "an eye for eye
and a tooth for a tooth," which is strictly follwed to do to exceed their
righteousness in this respect?
2. Why do St. Augustine and Dante the traveler both compare the journey of
their life to that of the Prodigal Son?
3. In Book I of his Confessions, St. Augustine confessed to God: "Thusm you
brought good for me out of those who did ill, and justly punished me for the
ill I did myself. So you have ordained and so it is: that every disorder of
the soul is its own punishment." How does the last statement apply to the
punishment of sinners in Dante's Inferno?
4. In the last canto of The Divine Comedy, Dante the traveler sets his eyes on
the Eternal Light:
I saw within Its depth how It coceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves;
subtance, accident, and their relation
so fused that all I say could do no more
than yield a glimpse of that bright revelation.
(Paradiso XXXIII, 85-90, trans. John Ciardi)
Compare this vision with the "light leaves" on which the Sibyl wrote her
oracles (65-66)
Have a nice Spring!
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