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This 5 page paper discusses what one can discern from Heinrich Mann's novel Man of Straw, and in particular the main character. Political, economic and psychological factors that help to explain the embrace of nationalism by many Germans prior to WWI are discussed. Quotes cited from the text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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amuck during the Wilhelmine era. Hessling has no redeemable qualities, and as such he serves as the perfect vehicle to carry Manns theories as to how nationalism swept Germany during
this time. After the introductory paragraph, the student will want to concentrate on fleshing out the body of the paper. If the introductory paragraph has been constructed well, the
salient points will already be there, waiting for elaboration. For example, the introductory paragraph states that Diedrich Hessling embodied the nationalistic movement during the Wilhelmine Era. One needs to now
become more specific and mention exactly how Hessling embodied this notion. The first way in which Hessling reflects the political factors that caused Germans to so readily embrace nationalism. The
time period is shortly before the onset of World War I. The Kaiser has incited his people into a passionate fury based on misplaced patriotism and a desire for revenge.
For his part, then, Diedrich becomes involved politically by becoming a thug who uses his wealth and power to subdue and belittle any who stood in his way of personal
gain. The mans character is shown to be quite small when he comments to himself after he buys a friend a movie ticket: "It was the first time he had
ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann portrayed this character as symbolic of those
just like him. During this era, those who owned factories, came from wealthy families, and were well off thought little of those beneath them socially or economically. Diedrich and
his ilk were also portrayed through Manns work as those very industrialists who were sucking the country dry economically. They borrowed and leveraged more money than they could ever
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