33 pages • 1 hour read
Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
1.
Why do you think the narrator keeps calling Hans “our hero” despite his plainly unheroic characteristics?
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Upon Hans’s arrival to the sanatorium, Hans evinces an extraordinary curiosity about everything, even a morbid cough from down the hall. Does this curiosity serve him well in the end?
3.
How do the competing intellectual positions of Settembrini and Naphta within the sanatorium reflect European ideologies of the early 20th century?
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