J. Roth Name:___________________

World Masterpieces 272

Experience #3 (25 points each--100 points possible)

Due: No later than 1 p.m., Monday, June 10, 2002. You may place your experience under my office door or in the box outside.

1. Consider the deaths of Ivan Ilyich and Gregor Samsa (The Death of Ivan Ilyich, pp. 1180-1222 and The Metamorphosis, pp. 1638-1672).

What is one essential difference in their deaths in terms of any insights that impending death revealed to each of these characters?

Note: This question does not ask about how they died; rather it asks about the meaning each man’s impending death may have revealed to him.

2. Please turn to Billy Budd, p. 803. Eight lines from the bottom of the page, Vere says, “Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!” Please explain what Vere means by this, and what this assertion says about Vere and his belief system.

3. Please turn to p. 1614 of Joyce’s The Dead and locate the paragraph toward the bottom of the page that begins “Gabriel, leaning on his elbow, looked for a few moments . . . .” After carefully reading the paragraph, please answer the following:

What does Gabriel come to understand about his feelings for, and his relationship with, his wife?

4. Please turn in the attached page separately, and please do not put your name on it. If I have your Experience #3 in hand by the due date, I will assume you also submitted the attached evaluation and will credit you with 25 points.

World Masterpieces 272

J. Roth

Spring 2003

Course and Instructor Evaluation

Directions: Please do not put your name on this page. Detach it and hand it in separately from your experience. Absolute honesty is assumed.

COMMENTS ON THE COURSE: Please suggest changes in any of the following:

course content, types of assignments, lengths of assignments, intervals between tests, journal entries, organization, textbook, etc. How could the course be improved?

COMMENTS ON INSTRUCTION: Please suggest changes in any of the following: teaching style, delivery, lecture clarity, after-class discussions, instructor availability, instructor accessibility, fairness, grading policies, treatment of others, etc. How could I improve?