Franz Kafka/The Judgement
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A 3 page essay that summarizes and analyzes Franz Kafka's short story "The Judgement." The writer argues that this story reflects Kafka's relationship with his own father on a deeply psychological level. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khkafj.rtf

Gabriele the Fragile: Thomas Mann
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(5 pp.) Our challenge in this discussion is to examine the nature of "Gabriele" in Thomas Mann's novelle Tristan, We will look at the relationship of this woman to her art and her death. Are they related. Or was her death a mere coincidence? Or is there another possibility? Bibliography lists 1 sources.
Filename: BBmnngab.doc

Generations in All Quiet on the Western Front
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This 4 page paper discusses the in which the older and younger generations react to the "Great War." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Goethe’s “Faust” and Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents”
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This 5 page report discusses Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” (1929-30) and applies it to a literary character -- Mephistopheles -- from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust.” Both are tangentially based on the real world and real people, however, both are shaped and manipulated by their “founders.” For that reason Mephistopheles serves as one of the most valuable subjects or characters from Faust to consider in light of Freud’s theories in “Civilization and its Discontents.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWdiscon.rtf

Goethe’s Faust
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A 5 page character study and summation of Goethe’s Faust. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khgoefau2.rtf

Goethe/Faust, Part I
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A 3 page essay that examines Goethe's Faust, Part I and argues that while it is Faust who is the presumed genius, the man of letters and learning and Margaret, his love, is but a simple peasant girl, it is Margaret who has learned from her experiences at the end of Goethe's Faust, Part I, not the learned doctor. This is evidenced by Faust's continued association with the devil, Mephistopheles, while Margaret rejects them both, repents, and is, therefore, taken to heaven. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khfapt1.rtf

Goethe: “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
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This 3 page paper discusses Goethe’s first novel, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” with regard to the following questions: who is telling the story, to whom is it told, how much time passes, where the story is set, and how do specific words affect the reader’s understanding of the story. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVWerthe.rtf

Haffner/Defying Hitler
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A 3 page book review of Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler (2002). Written in 1939, this is the memoir of a middle-class German journalist who endeavors, through the examination of his own life and background, to understand the social mechanisms that led to Hitler's rise to power. The writer offers a synopsis of the major themes and recommends it as a primary source. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khhafner.rtf

Heinrich Boll/ Billiards at half-past nine
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This 5 page paper talks about Heinrich Boll's novel 'Billiards at half-past Nine,' --- it gives a character sketch on the main character in the novel, Robert Faehmel. This paper has one source cited.
Filename: 99bill9.wps