Exam 33: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Which work was originally titled Despair?

Which twentieth-century leader justified his actions by misconstruing Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas?

Social Darwinism supposedly explained

Fin de siècle literally means

Sigmund Freud placed a great deal of emphasis on interpreting dreams,believing them to

Southern Africans submitted themselves to the prison-like conditions of working in the diamond mines to

European audiences found the character Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House scandalous because she

Identify and explain at least two reasons for Paris's position as the fin de siècle's center for artistic and literary change.

The Society of Men of Letters refused to accept Auguste Rodin's Monument to Balzac for

Compare Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House to the female in Rodin's The Kiss,explaining why audiences found both females to be scandalous.

By the end of the century,the Eiffel Tower came to symbolize

Stéphane Mallarmé based his poem "L'Aprés-midi d'un faune" on

All of the following are characteristics of Symbolism EXCEPT

Auguste Rodin's The Kiss was considered too scandalous for U.S.public display,because

Using specific details to support your response,describe and explain the perspectival technique of Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Plaster Cast.

At the beginning of the twentieth century,Western powers vied to dominate Africa in an effort to

List and define three characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement,giving examples of each.

Define "pointillism," and explain Georges Seurat's use of it to reflect and to create mood.

Explain the innovations Claude Debussy used in his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (The Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)to suggest the presence of meaning in order to express the inexpressible.