LITTRANS 274 Study Guide - Final Guide: Existential Crisis, Existentialism, Ambient Intelligence

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Literature In Translation
• Course: LITTRANS 274
• Professor: All

Document Summary

It is in your interest to not use the same texts twice! Long essay: brief summary, discuss work(s) Can do all this good but can also destroy. Leonardo di vinci type figure represents culture culture likes to dominate nature. Leads into dualistic reading of human culture. Controlling nature can do a lot for us but it can also crate an atomic bomb. Doesn"t care who he"s working for: religion people trying help others and god hates you side to religion, the prince. These are also the failings of mankind. Great writing, culture strides and yet there was wwii a this time. Dwarf is existentialism: not the main character, 2 possibilities. Dwarf is meant to propel the reader into an existential crisis. You are responsible for your choices and you do have cho ices. Wwii in the backdrop: the questions p r lagerkvist is asking of his own time.