課程名稱︰歐洲文學1350-1800
課程性質︰外文系大二必修
課程教師︰張惠娟
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2007/01/19
考試時限（分鐘）：10:20~12:30
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試題 :
I.Identification 20%
1~9題：寫出 [] 中所指何人, 人名不用背, 老師會寫在黑板上
1. But [I] have seen him in your presence, when,/ Intrigued by his repute, I
thought to observe/ His celebrated pride and cold reserve.
2. Ah,mocking Fate! What use was all my care?/ Brought by my spouse himself to
Troezen, there/ I yet again beheld [my exiled foe].
3. A love of heavenly beauty does not prelude/ A proper love for earthly
pulchritude;/ Our senses are quite rightly captivated/ By perfect works
our Maker has created./ In [you], all Heaven's marvels are displayed.
4. [You] harbor all the insight of the age./ You are our one clear mind,
our only sage,/ The era's oracle, its Cato too,/ And all mankind are fools
compared to you.
5. [They] never show you things as they are, but bend and disguise them
according to the way they have seen them; and to give credence to their
judgement and attract you to it, they are prone to add something to their
matter, to stretch it and amplify it.
6. ...As in a dream,/ I see [you] drop the fearful urn; you seem/ To ponder
some new torment fit for her,/ Yourself become your own child's torturer.
7. The dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less unhappy than we
are. The Dutch witch doctors who converted [me] tell me every Sunday that we
are all sons of Adam, black and white alike.
8. [I] presume that in general those who meddle in public business sometimes
perish miserably, and that they deserve their fate.
9. [They] are not fighting for the conquest of new lands, for they still enjoy
that natural abundance that provides them without toil and trouble with all
necessary things in such profusion that they have no wish to enlarge their
boundries.
10."Oh, to be sitting in the woods' deep shade!/ When shall I witness, through
a golden wrack/ of dust, a chariot flying down the track?"
Whom does this passage indirectly refer to?
II.Short-answer Question 50% -- Please write 15 words at most for each answer:
1. "How, pitying poor storm-tossed fools, I swore/ Ever to view such tempests
from the shore;/ And now, like common men, for all my pride,/ Am lost to
reason in a raging tide."
What does this passage reveal about Racine's unique characterization of
Hippolytus?
2. "But no: I'd first have thought of that design,/ Inspired by love;
[the plan] would have been mine."
What is [the plan]?
3. "He is a man who...a man who...an excellent man./ To keep his precepts is
to be reborn,/ And view this dunghill of a world with scorn./ Yes, thanks
to him I'm a changed man indeed."
Comment on the rhetorical device enployed here.
4. "Ah, Brother, man's a strangely fashioned creature/ Who seldom is content
to [follow Nature],/ But recklessly pursues his inclination/ Beyond the
narrow bounds of moderation."
What is "nature"?
5. "Oh pain I never felt before!/ What new, sharp torments have I kept in
store!/ All that I've suffered-- frenzies, fears, the dire/ Oppression of
remorse, my heart on fire,/ The merciless rebuff he gave me--/ All were
but foretastes of [this agony]."
What is the cause of this agony?
6. Toward the end of her second confession, Phaedra uttered the following
words:
"Strike then. Or if your hatred and disdain/ Refuse me such a blow, so sweet
a pain,/ If you'll not stain your hand with my abhorred/ And tainted blood,
lend me at least your sword."
1) In this passage we can in fact detect a new motif popping up.
What is that?
2) In terms of the language used here, is there any potential influence
from Petrarch?
7. Toward the end of his essay "Of Cannibals," Montaigne talked about three
cannibals who visited Rouen. He said that they "mentioned three things,
of which I have forgotton the third, and I am very sorry for it; but I
still remember two of them."
How is this statement indicative of Montaigne's writing style?
8. "We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our
inventions that we have quite smothered her. Yet wherever her purity shines
forth, she wonderfully puts to shame our vain and frivolous attempts."
Explain the significance of the passage.
9. Why are there many recognition scenes in CANDIDE?
10. What is Eldorado? What is its function in CANDIDE?
III.Essay Question 30%
-- Please write a paragraph of approximately 100 words
for each of the following two questions:
1. In the very beginning of PHAEDRA Theramenes says, "Already, to appease
your fears, I've plied/ The seas which lie on Corinth's either side;/ I've
asked for Theseus among tribes who dwell/ Where Acheron goes plunging into
Hell;/ Elis I've searched and, from Taenarus bound,/ Reached even that sea
where Icarus was drowned."
Here a rich tapestry of imagery is weaved, whose larger significance will
only be fully appreciated much later. Please discuss the intricate images
employed here and how they contribute to a richer understanding of the
drama.
2. What is "black comedy"? Please base your discussions on CANDIDE.
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