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1. Don Quixote a.

Justice: Meets goat herders, Mother Nature provided all that man needed, making it needless to steal/cheat/lie but because the world is no longer in such a stae, the order of knight-errant i. Free galley slaves- wanted them to present themselves to Dulcinea but instead they pelt him with rocks ii. iii. Boy who is being whipped by master iv. Transgresses law for his ideals v. code of chivalry, Quixote says that he will spare the attendant's life if
the man agrees to "present himself before the peerless Dulcinea, that she may dispose of him as she shall think fit."

b. Self Transformation i. He names himself, his horse, and his lady ii. Absolute freedom is possible through literature 1. Marcela and Grisostomo iii. Reality is in a constant state of flux 1. Shining barbers basin for Mambrins hat 2. Windmills- evil enchanter has transformed the giants into windmills in order to rob Quixote of a dashing victory 3. Basalm- said it didnt work on Sancho because he was a squire 4. Refashions tree branch into lance after windmill incident iv. Says enchantments prevent him from helping Sancho v. Surprised when learns that inn is not a castle and he must pay vi. Vivaldo sees Don Quixote he asks him why he wears armor though he
travels though a safe and peaceful country. Quixote explains the order of chivalry and refers to the English histories of King Arthur. Vivaldo seems impressed with the discipline and strictures of Quixote's service, likening the knight to a monk.

c. Reality vs. idealization i. Transformation ii. Return to reality 1. Boy tells Don Quixote to stop interfering 2. Suffer defeat at hands of Knight of White Moon 3. \] iii. d. 2. Crime and Punishment a. Acceptance of his own ordinariness/acceptance of nature i. Hopelessly human ii. Subconscious guilt that haunts him iii. Strong ideals

iv. 3. b. Pride and Prejudice a. Exchange of characters b. Elizabeth becomes more like Darcy c. Darcy becomes more like Elizabeth To the Lighthouse a. King Lear a. Driven to madness b. Mock trial to bring justice on daughters c. Starts to regret the way that he had treated the poor during his reign when he subjects himself to the elements d. HE is even ashamed to see Cordelia again e. Faust a. Gretchen i. Unable to grasp reality ii. b. Faust i. Inability to reach fulfillment ii. Resorted to alchemy iii. Only loses his soul if Mephisopheles can make him stop yearning to be godlinke iv. Feels guilt for seducing an innocent v. Infinity of nature vi. He wishes to transcent the real world yet he does not want to give up his own identity or desires vii. He wants to escape the constraints of philosophy but he can find no way to do so through his own subjective experience viii. Faust makes his transition to debauched state tempted by the devil 1. Brings wine forth froma table in which he drilled holes 2. When wine spills on the floor, bursts into flames 3. Bestiality will stand revealed in glowing color ix. Cellar 1. Transforms into young lover 2. Cannot avert his eyes from the mirror. Perhaps magic is not necessary for his transformation. Perhaps Faust as the innate ability to change without the need of a wager with the devil 3. Temptation of Gretchen: represents morality of the church x. Mephisopheles complains that Faust, in his lovesickness, would blow awayt eh sun and the moon and all the stars as a pastime for his sweetheart

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xi. Describes gretchens room in religiou terms, while acknowledging the spirit of nature. The spirit once did nothing but confound him, but now he worships it for providing such a beautiful creature xii. Sits in forest 1. Faust has retretead because he knows that the wager he madw tithe with the Devil will bring nothing but destruction to Gretchen 2. He has found a world beyond his own subjectivity 3. the world holds an infinite moment form which he would never like to leave xiii. Walpurgis night 1. Gives himself up completely to Mephisopheles 2. Dances with a wtich 3. Marvels at Lilith and Medusa 4. Talks with a group of men who are also damned 5. He has experienced grace and he knows that it exists, yet he is condemned never to experience it again. He will love with the knowledge that he caused the death of his love and he will never again have his blissful moment of union with nature and the world xiv. c. 7. Essays 8. Confessions a. Conversion process b. Convince himself of the glory of God i. What God is capable of ii. Grief is alleviated by God iii. Return to Go d c. Realize insufficiencies of Manicheeism d. Hears Old Testament figuratively interpreted for the first time 9. TO the lighthouse a. Mrs. Ramsay accepts the notion that things must spoil b. MRs ramsays earch for stability is in emotion and domesticity i. image that is reminiscent of the purple triangle in Lily's painting that
represents Mrs. Ramsay--in that, because it is invisible to others, it is limitless. It is only this invisible self, she believes, that finds peace and stability, representing a triumph over the force of life that she battles.

c. MRs. Ramsay is self aware i. Mr. Carmichael shrinks from MRs. Ramsay. This rejection causes MRs. Ramsay emotional injury, for it forces her to consider all of her generous impulses as only an indication of her self-satisfying vanity

ii. She hates the fact that her children notice people's differences and
distinctions, while she wants only to focus on points of connection and coherence. In this way, Mrs. Ramsay is an artist of the social realm. d. Prue tells her that they will go down to the beach to watch the waves, and Mrs. Ramsay is suddenly filled with gaiety. Though she wants to accompany them, she feels a strong and undefinable need to stay at home. She goes into the other room, where Mr. Ramsay is reading. e. By its very nature, the quotation therefore represents a way in which humans are unified--through mutual influence--in addition to expressing the common experience of facing one's individuality. More explicitly, the words describe an inevitable, lonely, separate reality, the opposite of what Mrs. Ramsay has tried to weave and merge together f. Lily's final artistic gesture is also a representation of this general relinquishing of control. Throughout the novel, Lily has intended to find stability and order not in marriage, as Mrs. Ramsay suggests, but in the simple act of moving the tree in her painting more to the middle of the canvas. Like the Lighthouse, the tree is a symbol of stability and permanence, although its ability to be moved undermines its position and lends it an undeniable transience. She has no further need of imagining Mrs. Ramsay's shadow on the steps, now that she can do without ideas of stability. She no longer needs even to see her own canvas clearly. Indeed, the tree that she has long intended to draw is represented in her vision as a simple, perfunctory line. The Lighthouse and the tree, which were the ultimate symbols of stability and permanence in the novel, are now made completely unrecognizable. Lily is able to embrace the unstable transience of this moment and finally find artistic and personal fulfillment. g. alive. In this way, Lily embodies some of the beloved woman's "wedgeshaped core of darkness" in its most positive construal. In a sense, this reproduction of Mrs. Ramsay's individual creative power represents the fulfillment of Mrs. Ramsay's wish for permanence and stability.

10. Metamorphoses a. 11. He even wishes for repentance, as he still cannot see what was so wrong about what
he had done. The only crime he recognizes is that he had not born the weight of his guilt successfully,' and had gone and confessed. t the very end, Dostoevsky makes one more plea for emotionalism in the hyperrationalist world. After Rodya's revelation, he lies in bed only able to feel, not think. "Instead of dialectics, there was life, and something completely different had to work itself out in his consciousness." In other words, he at last understands the utter futility of the excessive reasoning which led him there in the first place. More ashamed than guilty Godless, coldness Pp

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a. Elizabeth explains her reasons for turning him down. These reasons are, first,
the arrogant manner of his proposal; second, his actions to separate Bingley and Jane; and third, his actions toward Wickham. b. She begins to see that she judged Darcy completely wrongly, and she grows ashamed, concluding that she been "blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd," in spite of the fact that has always prided herself on her judgment. She realizes that vanity has been the cause of her prejudice.

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