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Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume 6 of his literary journal Phöbus in June 1808.
Michael Kohlhaas, a prosperous horse trader, lives a peaceful life with his family in Brandenburg. When he travels to Saxony to conduct business, he is confronted with injustice at the hands of a corrupt nobleman, Junker Wenzel von Tronka.
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Kohlhaas punishes Tronka and his family by killing and victimizing other innocent people. Kohlhaas also fails to see that it is his persistence that led to the death of his wife and the damage to the towns. Tronka is the perpetrator who deceives Kohlhaas and impedes Kohlhaas's pursuit of justice.
Michael Kohlhaas is a German novella written by Heinrich von Kleist. It’s based on the story of Hans Kohlhase, which dates from the sixteenth century. Kleist published parts of the text in his literary journal Phöbus in 1808. The full work appeared in his 1810 book Erzahlungen, meaning novellas.
Complete summary of Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Michael Kohlhaas.
Kohlhaas becomes a Romantic hero, an individual striving to become more than a man restricted by the usual limitations imposed upon all of us. To some extent, Kleist created a mirror of his own...
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