Chapter 4 (Chapter 35), The Quest for Meaning (please answer questions in complete sentences)
1)Regarding Sartre’s “Existentialism”, in your own words, explain “existence precedes essence” and “existential anguish.”
2)In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, what aspect of “the absurd” are communicated in this reading?
3) In Thomas’ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, how does Thomas use the imagery of light and dark in this poem?
4)Does religious faith play any part in Thomas’ poem?
5) In Tagore’s The Man Had No Useful Work, what does each figure in Tagore’s allegory represent?
6)In Tagore’s The Man Had No Useful Work, is there a “moral to the story?
7)How did Abstract Expressionism happen, what gave rise to its currency?
8)What is so revolutionary about Alexander Calder’s mobiles?
9)Whose theories were the most outrageous, influential and mind blowing: Mies van der Rohe, R. Buckminster Fuller or John Cage?