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Felix Krull as a Role Player
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5 pages. What is a role player? And why is Felix Krull described as one? In the book 'Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man' by Thomas Mann, we find out what a true role player is. Felix is one of the best, and this paper artfully describes just what comprises that description. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Mann’s “Death in Venice”
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A seven page paper looking at the way this novel by Thomas Mann can be understood as a farewell to the nineteenth-century artist. The paper explains that Mann’s work is at the same time an evocation and a rebuttal of German Romanticism. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Thomas Mann / His Life & Work
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This 7 page paper discusses how German author Thomas Mann's life (1875-1955) affected his works. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Thomas Mann's 'Death In Venice' / Mass Culture
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A 9 page paper on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, looking specifically at the way it is written to be understood on both an extremely literary level as well as by a more mass-market audience. The paper points out that by writing the story realistically but packing it with classical archetypes, Mann is able to gain both intelligibility and depth. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Thomas Mann's 'Death In Venice' / Morality & Society
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A 3 page analysis that examines that Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, illustrates the ideas concerning morality discussed by Freud in his work Civilization and Its Discontents. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Deathin2.doc

Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' # 2 / Setting & Environment
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A 5 page essay on the use of the mountain and sanitarium setting as a device to portray the environment in which Hans Castorp develops an understanding of the horrors of the war. The paper proves Hans' progress in terms of the setting—from his introduction to reality at the sanitarium to a rejection of that reality to the real answer on the slopes of the magic mountain. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Psychological Aspects of Victor Frankenstein
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5 pages. Discusses the psychology of the man behind the monster. Ever since the birth of Shelley’s book in Geneva in 1816 the world has been drawn to this tale of the creating of life in a scientific laboratory. Based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: JGAfrank.doc

Franz Kafka / Judaism In His Works
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A 5 page paper looking at this important German writer of the twentieth century in terms of the Jewish context of his works. The paper argues that his frequent allusions to deformity, illness, and guilt mirror his own self-perception, resulting from the anti-Semitic stereotypes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kafka's work entitled 'Metamorphosis' is emphasized. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Franz Kafka / 'Metamorphosis'
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A 5 page essay in which the writer posits that Kafka's story is allegorical for the creationist evolution of the planet Earth, and also for the evolution of religious beliefs from antiquity to Christianity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Franz Kafka's 'Country Doctor' / As A Definitive Myth
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A 5 page discussion of the short story 'A Country Doctor' by the German writer Franz Kafka. The paper shows how this extremely complex story unfolds like a nightmare and actually functions as a kind of modern myth. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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