Common Themes of Tragedy in “Macbeth,” “Antigone” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”
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This 5 page report discusses the common themes that exist in these three works of literature. Great tragic literature carries with it certain common themes that define it as tragedy and which then allows the reader to understand that there is a greater story being outlined than just the one of the characters presented in a single story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Comparison of Heinrich Heine and Gunter Grass
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A 5 page paper discussing classic works by these German authors. Both Heine and Grass portray a dark and nearly hopeless Germany in their works. Heine's Deutschland, a Winter's Tale is older than Grass' The Tin Drum by more than 100 years, a century in which Germany rose to command world attention twice. Grass portrays a Germany with much similarity to that of Heine's time. Heine was threatening and ominous in much of his epic-length verse. He was able to see ahead on Germany's then-current path; Grass looked back along that path in the other direction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Death and Dying in William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of King Lear" and Johann von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther"
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A 5 page paper which compares and contrast the protagonists' views on death and how they speak of their own dying in William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of King Lear" and Johann von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," concentrating on one key passage from each work, and closely analyzing how the emotions of each man are expressed. No additional sources are used.
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Erich M. Remarque/All Quiet on the Western Front
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A 5 page essay that examines the perspective on reality taken by Remarque in discussing the horrors of war during WWI. The reader follows the perspective of the protagonist, Paul Baumer, as he goes from being an idealistic youth to a hardened, war-experienced realist, to finally arriving a naturalistic philosophy that offers some hope for the future in the ability of the earth to sustain and renew itself. No additional sources cited.
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Franz Kafka's 'The Hunger Artist'
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A 4 page paper discussing the short story, The Hunger Artist. The writer analyzes Kafka's tongue in cheek style and humorous look at the life of a starving artist. No additional sources cited.
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Franz Kafka/Gregor Samsa in Metamorphosis
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A 5 pages essay that looks at several sources on how to analyze the character of Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, a narrative in which the protagonist is turned into a large bug. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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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.
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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.
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Heinrich Boll/ Hosts of the Beast and Lamb
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A 5 page essay that examines the significance of the "host of the beast" and the "host of the lamb" in Boll's masterpiece, "Billiards at Half-Past Nine." No additional sources cited.
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Heinrich von Kleist/ Michael Kohlhass
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A 6 page research paper that first of all sets German authors Heinrich von Kleist in perspective against the cultural background of his day and then summarizes and analyzes his work "Michael Kohlhass." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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