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- articulate
- assertive
- strong of character
- not a creature of male fantasy
- "Intelligent, cool, level-headed" - Hubert Blorna
- Politically unaware
- spontaneous - relationship with Gotten is what brands her a political criminal
- Not an Anarchist
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- victim
- Katherina is an embodiment of the damage which negative media portrayal can have
- Scrutinised by the public, takes away her societal perception as an honorable woman.
- to show through boll's work that post Nazi is heavily influenced by communism and that the german press have taken a propagandist stance to further influence the reading public to its opinions.
- acts as a political statement against the intrusive media.
- The reader as a jury, judging katherinas innocence/ guilt. a purely subjective assement
- a political tool- nice, amorous, tender. her tenderness is lost in the biblical new testament because of soceity.
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- emerges strengthened from her experiences as a victimised woman in capitalist society
- goes beyond a liberal attack on the yellow press for it carefully reveals how the press and government cooperate in establishing a repressive political atmosphere.
- Katherina is moulded by the press into an embodiment of the inner fears. she is presented as a threat and a danger and ultimately does become one through her murdering totges
- Is she too good to be true?
- she is attacked in non-physical ways which lead to the murder.
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- male society oppresses women through images which humiliate them
- The actions of urban guerillas like the Baader Meinhof group act as a key political backdrop to the story
- social and economic institutions create individuals like totget and Beizmenne, and it is from these same structures that the source of violence flows.
- "The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries" - British man falsely accused of murder and whose life was almost ruined because of the negative media portrayal which occurred during his unduly long arrest.
- 'one should not capitalise off another's misfortunate circumstances and this is a moral perpetuated by boll in this novel.
- "How violence develops and where it leads"
- The baader-Meinhof group who were protesting the war in vietnam, belueved that the only way to stand up against the post nazi regieme was to use violence. but this then created a police state in germany.
- SOCIAL/ POLITICALPAMPHLET
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