He loves mankind more than jesus does

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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.

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