33 pages 1 hour read

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

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Essay Topics

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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?

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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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