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. A 5 page paper looking at this important German writer of the twentieth century in terms of the Jewish context of his works. Kafka's work entitled 'Metamorphosis' is emphasized.
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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.