1> Why does Dostoevsky's Grand inquisitor say he loves mankind more than Jesus does?
2> In Tolstoy's fable describing a traveler who is clinging to a branch above a cliff and in danger of falling to his doom, what do the black and white mice gnawing at the branch represent?
3> Camus describes Sissyphus as an absurd hero, but says that one must imagine Sissyphus happy. why does he think this? How might his position be criticized?
4> Identify common or overlapping themes in at least three of the following works:
a) Hemmingway's- A clean well-lighted place
b) Beckett's- Waiting for Godot
c) One or more of Kafka's parables
d) The film Revolutionary Road
e) Camus' The myth of Sissyphus
f) Sartre's Existentialism as a Humanism"
Comapare and contrast the problems, questions, and possible solutions relating to these themes as they arise in the works selected.