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LITR 5831
Seminar in World / Multicultural Literature: |
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Jeanette Smith, 15 February 2016
Discussion questions for Death and the
King’s Horseman part II
1. If, in tragedy, the
greatness of humanity is revealed through human failure, how do you see this
idea expressed in Death and the King’s
Horseman? (61)
2. How does tragedy complicate questions of
crime and justice? (“Being, the
Will, and Semantics of Death”158,164 and DKH 43, 51, 52 and
“Ideology and Tragedy” 167)
3.
How does crime and justice in
Death and the King’s Horseman compare
with that of the Agamemnon trilogy,
specifically in
The
Eumenides?
In which text did you find the idea of justice the most satisfying?
4. How does Death and
the King’s Horseman use or repress
spectacle? (58, 62)
5. If
postcolonial literature is frequently
millennial or apocalyptic,
how may Death and the King's Horseman be
regarded as
millennial or apocalyptic? (50, 51, 62)
6. Where did you experience
the sublime in this text? (A part of
the apocalyptic narrative is the sublime.
In contrast to beauty or prettiness, the sublime describes
beauty mixed with terror, danger,
threat—usually on a grand or elevated scale. For audiences, the
experience of the sublime brings a
powerful mixture of pleasure and pain).
