Discuss sweeping critique of patriarchal society

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1. What is memento mori? How is it deployed in Bergman's film The Seventh Seal?

2. How does DAY FOUR differ from the other Days of Boccaccio's Decameron?

3. What episode from Dante's Inferno is referenced in the story of Nastagio(V, 8), and why? What does it tell us about Boccaccio's worldview with respect to Dante's?

4. How is the story of Monna Tessa and the Ghost (VII, 1) a statement on language?

5. What is Boccaccio suggesting through the story of the two men in love with the same woman (VII, 10)?

6. How does the "nightingale" story (V, 4) refer back to the story of Lisabetta (IV, 5)? What do you think of its "happy" ending?

7. What themes do the stories of Alatiel (II, 7) and Masetto(III, 1) have in common? (Mention at least 2)

8. What does Boccaccio mean by ending his life-affirming, proto-feminist work with the bleak tale of Griselda (X, 10)? What may be an allegorical reading of this story?

ESSAY QUESTION

Topic A. Discuss the sweeping critique of patriarchal society that Boccaccio articulates in the Decameron, as well as his advocacy of women's rights. Mention 4 stories we read in class as support for your argument.

Topic B. Discuss Boccaccio's view of language and human reality, and how it represents a break from the medieval worldview of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mention 4 stories we read as support for your argument.

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