| A | B |
|---|
| Sound and Fury | Shakespeare's Macbeth comments on life's meaninglessness |
| Sound and Fury | a passionate uproar over something unimportant |
| Icarus | failed due to lack of caution |
| Icarus | destroyed because of excessive ambition |
| Icarus | in Greek mth, flew too close to the sun and fell to his death |
| Bread and Circuses | policies that prevent unrest by keeping people happy |
| Bread and Circuses | using entertainment to deflect concern about serious issues |
| Bread and Circuses | Roman government appeased populace with free food and spectacles |
| Deus ex Machina | surprising turn of events that creates convenient happy ending |
| Deus ex Machina | device of classical theater to resolve a seemingly hopeless situation |
| Deus ex Machina | god lowered from ceiling in Greek theater |
| Tabula Rasa | John Locke's idea of the 'blank slate' |
| Tabula Rasa | something or someone uninfluenced or unmarked |
| Tabula Rasa | referring to a mind unaffected by experience |
| Tantalus | king from Greek myth who offended gods by giving ambrosia and nectar to humans |
| Tantalus | condemned to suffer eternal hunger and thirst |
| tantalized | offered something desirable which is withheld |
| NIMBY | Not In My Back Yard |
| NIMBY | insistence that unpleasant realities should be away from where one lives |
| NIMBY | protests against social relaities such as prisons, landfills, and nuclear planst |
