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• What does Candide say he is going to do at the end of the storyCandide?

  Cultivate his own garden
• Romanticism


  • The fantastic, the gothic, the spectral
• Victims Balls were:


  • After the Reign of Terror ended dancing societies put on balls for those who either were almost guillotined or had family that was guillotined
• Major Kovalyov in The Nose wanted to check on a pimple that had formed on his nose the night before
• Principles or values symbolized by the French flag, the Tricolor

  • Liberty
  • Equality
  • Fraternity
• Jack the Ripper murdered prostitutes in London in 1888
• The Secret Agent is set in London
• Marx defines the history of all societies that have existed up to now as “the history of ______ struggle.”(according to Marx) the history of all societies that have existed up to now

  
  

  Class
• The overcoat in Gogol's "The Overcoat" represents

  a higher class and materialistic ideals
• The Professor in The Secret Agent

  • He built bombs for mass destruction, but never actually detonated them himself
• "Andalusian Dog"


  Surrealist genre/style
• Hitler loathed and selected abstract art for exhibition at his 1937 defamatory show "Degenerate Art," in Munich
• Nazi family purity laws from the mid-1930s explicitly advised women to ask prospective marriage partners about their ancestry
• In "Andalusian Dog," ants come out of the "stigmata-like" holes in the palms of the main male character
• Nazi doctrine justified the mass murder of Jewish people based on their belief in racial purity and superiority
• Anja, Art's mother, committed suicide
• In Maus, Part 1, Vladek has a concentration camp tattoo on his left forearm
• Settings (places, environments, spaces) in Maus, Vol. 1

  • Auschwitz
  • Birkenau
  • Poland
• The twenty prisoners executed in Tadeusz Borowski's short tale "The Supper" were Russian
• Vladek takes Art to a bank vault to give him a diamond ring he has kept since the 1930s
• Hugo Boss was in charge of creating Nazi officers' uniforms
• Postmemory


  The memory of a traumatic event is passed to future generations
• The Nazi officers in "The Supper" were in a hurry to take care of their business at the camp because they were going to a village dance afterwards
• The protagonist of "The Supper" did not partake in the "supper" available that particular evening
• Axolotls are native to Mexico
• In Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," Henri the French inmate told his "old friends" that they'll have a bath and see him inside the camp when he saw them disembark at the sorting station at Auschwitz
• The "winner" of the lottery in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is killed by being stoned
• "Axolotl" takes place in Paris
• Ways in which the Nazi "cult of efficiency" is enacted in Auschwitz, as described in "This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"


  • Extermination
  • Exploitation of labor
• "The Lottery" was originally published in The New Yorker
• Postmemory


  Art Spiegelman's "Maus" as a method of sharing traumatic memory
• Issues or concerns of the Anthropocene age

  • Global warming
  • Environmental degradation
• Mistaken beliefs about radiation that circulated when people in the Soviet Union first heard about the Chernobyl accident: radiation sickness was contagious and boiling contaminated food made it safe to eat
• During his 1987 West Berlin speech, US President Reagan asked (or dared) the Soviet First Secretary Gorbachev to "tear down the wall"
• Preferred ways of killing the Colorado Potato Beetle, aka the invader from imperialist America: Pesticides and spirits
• The Chernobyl explosion occurred in April
• Characters in "The Southern Thruway"


  • The engineer
  • Dauphine
  • The nuns
• The cars in "The Southern Thruway" are travelling south towards Paris
• The closest large city to Chernobyl is Kiev
• The cars shown crashing into one another in Sam Esmail's 2023 disaster flick Leave the World Behind are Teslas