ENGL 1000 Lecture Notes - King James Version, Existentialism
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Active: one in which the subject of the sentence is either doing an action, has done an action or is going to do an action. Passive: something the action is being done to ( mistakes were made. ) Subjunctive: wish/desire ( i wish i were there. ) Originally all of ireland are catholic, some irish some english. More and more english live in ireland, and become known as the middle nation because ireland is their home land, but they are english. When becket is writing it takes place during the troubles of ireland. 1922, spring uprising, the beginning of the irish war of independence. Problems with his mother which cause him to have psychological issues. Existentialism: what it means to exist and how we can find meaning in life simply from existence. Concentrates on things human beings can"t know (the reason for loss or indirection) Oct 1969, won nobel prize for literature. Time is uncertain, (extemporal: out of time)
