Midterm Study Guide
The midterm will cover all the material we've handled in class up
through Rosemary's Baby. The midterm will consist of a series
of ten identification and six short answer questions. This studyguide
provides
you with a list of names, terms, concepts and passages you should know.
The questions will be drawn from this list.
-
monism/dualism
-
Zoroastrianism/Zarathustra
-
Manicheism/Mani
-
Origen and Apocatastasis
-
Genesis, chapter 3
-
Gnosticism and felix culpa
- bene-ha-elohim (sons of the Lord)
- mal'ak Yahweh (voice
of the Lord)
-
Satan and devil (plus etymologies)
-
Mephistopheles (plus etymologies)
-
Matthew, chapter 4
-
Faustbook
-
Spiess
-
melancholy
-
Faustian modes
-
crossroads
-
Reformation, Humanism, Protestantism, Alchemy and Magic
-
Erasmus
-
Martin Luther
- Melanchthon
-
Wittenberg
-
nullus diabolus nullus redemptor
-
sola scriptura and sola fides
-
Malleus maleficarum
-
Luther and the Devil
-
Luther and marriage
-
Christopher Marlowe
-
self-reflexivity, play within a play, framing
-
self-reflexivity, knowledge and the fall
-
Satan and the origins of cinema
- laterna magica
-
Doppelganger
-
George Méliès
-
The Student of Prague
-
Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Alistair Crowley
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
Die Leiden des Jungen Werther
-
function of distancing devices in Goethe
-
Prelude in the Theater
-
casting of Faust/poet, Lord/director, Mephisto/clown
-
The Book of Job
-
Streben und Irren (Striving and Erring)
- meaning/function of evil in Goethe's Faust
-
Gospel of John, chapter 1
-
logos
-
theme of incarnation in Faust
-
the function of Mephisto in Goethe
-
the terms of the wager
-
Augenblick (the moment)
-
pact vs. wager
-
Gretchen/Margarete
-
Walpurgis Night and Walpurgis Night's Dream
-
the Brocken
-
Euphorion
-
the eternal feminine
-
Roman Polanski
-
Anton LaVey
-
motherhood and devil's pact
-
the dream-rape sequence
These are the passages you should definitely review:
-
"In our narrow house of boards, bestride / The whole creation,
far and
wide; / Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, / From heaven through the
world to hell."
-
"Es irrt der Mensch, solang er strebt." [Man errs as long as he
will
strive.]
-
"Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast"
-
The bible translation passage in Faust
-
"If to the moment I should say: / Abide, you are so fair
[beautiful]!"
-
"Im farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben." [In many-hued
reflection
we have life.]
-
"Then to the moment I might say: / Abide you are so fair!
-
"This is no dream. This is really happening!"