{"id":1294,"date":"2020-10-29T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/premedical-society\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2020-11-15T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:57:07","slug":"karel-capek-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/premedical-society\/2020\/10\/29\/karel-capek-vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Karel Capek, &#8220;Vertigo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a wealthy man falls victim to incapacitating attacks of vertigo, a young doctor decides that the problem and solution both reside in the patient&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/premedical-society\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/328\/2020\/10\/Capek-Karel_Vertigo_highlights.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Capek-Karel_Vertigo_highlights<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1jHOCQLilB57c7WjGziAzdkM3GAPaPoYY\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1jHOCQLilB57c7WjGziAzdkM3GAPaPoYY\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capek, Vertigo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1phzuj8Iq1VbVQ0MtfqgQwtbch1KCcmDL\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1phzuj8Iq1VbVQ0MtfqgQwtbch1KCcmDL\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capek, Vertigo<\/a> (with highlights)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1bsQCq6P1-gdiPS5ZxH7l-UG4R75ETsosMoKNSFPoA7o\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1bsQCq6P1-gdiPS5ZxH7l-UG4R75ETsosMoKNSFPoA7o\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Capek, Vertigo<\/a> (vocabulary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vocabulary Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/crossword\/kcvertigonounsadj\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/crossword\/kcvertigonounsadj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crossword<\/a> (nouns and adjectives)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/crossword\/kcvertigoverbsadv\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/crossword\/kcvertigoverbsadv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crossword<\/a> (verbs and adverbs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/word-search\/search-386\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/word-search\/search-386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Word Search<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/word-games\/hangman\/kcvertigohangmanphrases\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.proprofsgames.com\/ugc\/word-games\/hangman\/kcvertigohangmanphrases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hangman<\/a> (phrases and idioms)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who is telling this story (the narrator)? Where did he learn this story? Who is he telling? Do you think he is a reliable narrator (i.e. do you trust that he is telling the reader the truth)?<\/li><li>How does the narrator feel about doctors, in particular psychotherapists? How does he describe them? Does this indicate positive or negative feelings around this area of medicine?<\/li><li>Why does Dr. Spitz treat only wealthy patients? Why might wealthy patients be the ones with the most repressions, as the narrator attests?<\/li><li>Why doesn&#8217;t Gierke open up to Dr. Spitz? Why doesn&#8217;t he tell him why he is experiencing vertigo?<\/li><li>Do you think the way Dr. Spitz discovered information about Gierke was ethical? At what point does an action become unethical? Does this make a difference if the patient lives or dies in the end?<\/li><li>What do you think might be the cause of Gierke&#8217;s death? Do you trust that he completed suicide, or were there hints of some other reason?<\/li><li>Do you think Gierke really killed his first wife, as Dr. Spitz claims? What evidence do you see in the text that Gierke did or didn&#8217;t kill his first wife?<\/li><li>What do you make of the description of Gierke&#8217;s wife, Irma? How do you feel about the way women and wives have been portrayed in this story or others that we have discussed this semester?<\/li><li>Why might Gierke have a desire to kill Irma?<\/li><li>Does &#8220;Vertigo&#8221; remind you of any other texts you have read, either in this discussion group or outside of the group? What similarities do you see?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a wealthy man falls victim to incapacitating attacks of vertigo, a young doctor decides that the problem and solution both reside in the patient&#8217;s head. 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