The Magic Mountain
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Foreword Part 1, Chapter 1: Arrival Part 1, Chapter 2: Room 34 Part 1, Chapter 3: In the Restaurant Part 2, Chapter 1: The Baptismal Bowl/Grandfather in His Two Forms Part 2, Chapter 2: At the Tienappels’/Hans Castorp’s Moral State Part 3, Chapter 1: The Shadow of Respectability Part 3, Chapter 2: Breakfast Part 3, Chapter 3: Teasing/Viaticum/Interrupted Moment Part 3, Chapter 4: Satana Part 3, Chapter 5: Clarity of Mind Part 3, Chapter 6: One Word Too Many Part 3, Chapter 7: But of Course—a Female! Part 3, Chapter 8: Herr Albin Part 3, Chapter 9: Satana Makes Shameful Suggestions Part 4, Chapter 1: A Necessary Purchase Part 4, Chapter 2: Excursus on the Sense of Time Part 4, Chapter 3: He Tries Out His Conversational French Part 4, Chapter 4: Politically Suspect Part 4, Chapter 5: Hippe Part 4, Chapter 6: Analysis Part 4, Chapter 7: Doubts and Considerations Part 4, Chapter 8: Table Talk Part 4, Chapter 9: Growing Anxiety/Two Grandfathers and a Twilight Boat Ride Part 4, Chapter 10: The Thermometer Part 5, Chapter 1: Eternal Soup and Sudden Clarity Part 5, Chapter 2: “My God, I See It!” Part 5, Chapter 3: Freedom Part 5, Chapter 4: Mercury’s Moods Part 5, Chapter 5: Encyclopedia Part 5, Chapter 6: Humaniora Part 5, Chapter 7: Research Part 5, Chapter 8: Danse Macabre Part 5, Chapter 9: Walpurgis Night Part 6, Chapter 1: Changes Part 6, Chapter 2: Someone Else Part 6, Chapter 3: The City of God and Evil Deliverance Part 6, Chapter 4: An Outburst of Temper/Something Very Embarrassing Part 6, Chapter 5: An Attack Repulsed Part 6, Chapter 6: Operationes Spirituales Part 6, Chapter 7: Snow Part 6, Chapter 8: A Good Soldier Part 7, Chapter 1: A Stroll by the Shore Part 7, Chapter 2: Mynheer Peeperkorn Part 7, Chapter 3: Vingt et un Part 7, Chapter 4: Mynheer Peeperkorn (Continued) Part 7, Chapter 5: Mynheer Peeperkorn (Conclusion) Part 7, Chapter 6: The Great Stupor Part 7, Chapter 8: Fullness of Harmony Part 7, Chapter 9: Highly Questionable Part 7, Chapter 10: The Great Petulance Part 7, Chapter 11: The Thunderbolt
Themes
All Themes Time Coming of Age Death and Illness East vs. West Abstract Ideals vs. Lived Experience
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Characters
All Characters Hans Castorp Joachim Ziemssen Clavdia Chauchat Mynheer Peeperkorn Lodovico Settembrini Leo Naphta Dr. Behrens Dr. Krokowski Pribislav Hippe Barbara Hujus Head Nurse von Mylendonk Anton Ferge Ferdinand Wehsal Hermine Kleefeld Herr Albin Tous-les-deux Elly Brand Marusya Frau Stöhr The Overblown Woman (Frau Zimmermann) Leila Gerngross Fritz Rotbein Karen Karstedt Uncle James Tienappel Hans’s Grandfather The Austrian Horseman Holger The Loud Russian Couple Emerentia
Terms
All Terms Sanatorium Tuberculosis
Symbols
All Symbols Thermometers/Cigars X-Ray
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Dramatic Irony Fallacy Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Logos Metaphors Mood Paradox Personification Satire Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone Verbal Irony
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