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Stasiland: a study of power

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In Stasiland, Anna Funder recounts the horrors faced by the East German citizens under the control of the German Secret Police known as the “Stasi”. In order to understand the extent of the personal damage and despair suffered by people on a daily basis, Funder interviews a range of East German citizens, including ordinary people, unwilling informers and the Stasi operators obsessed with power and control.

This 40-page Stasiland Resource Package includes:

1. A detailed analysis of themes and character
2. Fourteen detailed essays/essay plans
3. A quote sheet
4. Summary notes: themes and characters

 

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According to the Stasi’s “dictator logic” or mentality, “we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy” (199).  As  16-year-old school girls, Miriam and Ursula intuitively realise that there is something unjust about Stasi police “dousing people with fire hoses”, “roughing people up” and bringing in the horses during a demonstration in Leipzig in 1968.

This 40-page Stasiland Resource Package includes:

1. A detailed analysis of themes and character
2. Fourteen detailed essays/essay plans
3. A quote sheet
4. Summary notes: themes and characters

 

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