We often attribute power, when not wielded properly, to destruction and downfall. The concept of power plays an essential role in both Heinrich Böll’s The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, but each author portrays...

Alexander Crummel once said that “a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things” (n.d.). This is a concept which is explored within Heinrich Boll’s 1975 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as Boll demonstrates the...

Marshall McLuhan said “the medium is the message” (McLuhan)and this is true of films as well as any other forms of media. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, is a film that uses the medium of...