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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of German novellas. Select works by Hoffman and Tieck are explored. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to project a sense of realism. For instance, buildings might stand at precarious, disjointed angles, and large black shadows dominate everything. The illustrations in Hoffmans "The Sandman" are in keeping
with this tradition and as such are quite effective. For instance, the drawing of Coppelius as a merchant with a sack of eyeballs is quite disturbing and discordant at first
glance, and is effective not because it is a literal depiction of Coppelius but because it represents the main characters fears about Coppelius hidden nature. Additionally, the image of the
figure in the window of a building is designed such that the building appears to assume a demonic form swallowing the individual whole. Such an image takes a rather mundane
situation and instills it with psychological import, emphasizing the characters sense of dread and doom. Discussion Questions Golden Pot and the Sandman The German novellas "The
Golden Pot" and "The Sandman" are both by the same author, Hoffman, but are quite distinct from one another. "The Golden Pot" is a light and comedic tale in which
all the characters end up happy, while "The Sandman" is a story of fear and neuroses that ends up with the main characters head "shattered" across pavement after he is
driven to suicide (Hoffman, 2009). That said, both stories do utilize the device of narrative confusion and discordance, like most German novellas, using mystical plot devices and shifting perspective to
keep the reader guessing. In my estimation, "The Sandman" is the more effective of the two stories because the mysterious elements are resolved in such a way that is in
keeping with the setting (terror and fear leading to death and darkness). Anselmus and Veronika In Hoffmans "The Golden Pot", the main character Anselmus encounters a mystical
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