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According to Larson, Martha is not the ‘goodie-two-shoes’ type. It is known how she tends to date and experience many, many men. Sometimes it would even be at the same time. News of the beautiful girl “Martha” got all the way to the upcoming leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Larson explains how “Putzi Hansfstaengl knew of Martha’s various romantic relationships, but by the fall of 1933 he had begun to imagine for her a new partner” (154). Martha’s extremely explicit rampage seems to have put her into a world of dangerous trouble.
Martha Dodd is a twenty-four year old American woman. Martha’s beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes makes her stand out from the crowd. “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha seems like an innocent woman, but her motives are different. Martha has a dark secret that she does not share with the men that are sexually involved with her. She is deceiving the men when she says, “I must admit I rather enjoyed being treated like a maiden of eighteen knowing all the while my dark secret” (113). Martha thinks that she lives in a utopia. She spends most of her time with men and thinks Berlin is a great place to live. Her idea of the regime is twisted when she says, “I felt like a child, ebullient and careless, the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me” (95). The Nazi regime kills innocent people, and Martha thinks it is all fun and games.
Martha Dodd is a beautiful, charismatic, romantic young woman. She is intelligent; she writes eloquently. However, she is naïve to the horrors of the Nazi regime. She's convinced that "those incidents that did occur were only inadvertent expressions of the wild enthusiasm that had gripped the country" (53). She fails to understand that it is flat out brutality. Even if she knew this, it probably wouldn't worry her too much, she admits in chapter 10 that "we sort of don't like the Jews anyways" (88). Martha is very fond of being pursued by men. Although she still technically married, she is romantically (or just plain sexually) involved with many men in Berlin. She likes to live slightly on the wild side; she loves excitement. She breaks many men's hearts, such as Max Delbrück, still recalls her "skill of manipulation" (114) forty years after their affair. While the boys might be heartbroken after the break up, she moves on rather quickly. All in all, Martha is a young, vibrant, confident woman; she just needs to be a little more observant of her surroundings.
Although Martha Dodd is very intelligent, charismatic, and creative, she is very naïve and tends to follow the crowd. This can be seen when Larson says “She too had been shaken by the episode, but she did not let it tarnish her overall view of the country and the revival of spirit cause by the Nazi revolution” (97). Larson doesn’t fail to mention how beautiful and good Martha is at talking to other men. “…She possessed instant cachet and in short order found herself sought after by men of all ranks, ages, and nationalities” (113). She is also evil, almost, she seems to not care about how other people feel, “…She would see other men- and make sure he knew it” (114). The way Larson describes Martha, could foreshadow great horror for Martha and her father William Dodd. In summary, she is beautiful and going to go far if she is careful.
In Erik Larson's "In The Garden of Beasts", Larson depicts Martha as an exotic young women who loves the attention from men. Martha is radiant yet very smart,and she has a very kind heart. Although, Martha is very fond of the men while she is in Germany. Martha is a great person, but she is thottin' around. Larson states that " She considered herself free to behave as she wished and to disclose or not disclose the legal reality of her marriage"(113). Martha Dodd was a free spirit and drew all the attention from men, because she is the ambassadors daughter.
In “In the Garden of Beasts”, Larson portrays Martha as a promiscuous woman. Martha is a beautiful woman who has attracted many men of high ranking in Germany. She is very flirtatious and charismatic women too. Larson talks about how, “She breaks many men's hearts, such as Max Delbrück, still recalls her "skill of manipulation" (114). Martha has a dark secret that she does not let the men she is involved with know. She is very deceiving of men and loves being pursued. Martha does not understand who she gets involved with and it has put her into danger a couple times.
In Erik Larson’s novel “In the Garden of Beasts” he portrays one of the main characters, Martha Dodd, as being very desirable among men. Martha enjoys flirting and getting physical with some of the men she meets. Larson portrays Martha as being a kind of rebel because she dates men that she knows does not look good on her father’s new job as ambassador. Martha is also in denial about what is going on in Germany. Martha receives a visit from a woman named Sigrid Schultz, and she becomes annoyed at the negative stories she tells her about Germany. Larson states, “’I didn’t believe all her stories,’ Martha wrote later. ‘I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.’” (54).
In Erik Larson's novel "In the Garden of Beasts", Larson focuses on a young woman named Martha. Martha comes off as very flirtatious and wild. She chases after married men and brushes off the men who showed her they cared. Martha is blind to what is happening in Germany and just seems to be enjoying her time there. “It was not really important, would create a bad impression, did not reveal actually what was going on in Germany, overshadowed the constructive work they were doing" (98). Martha is definitely an attention seeker. “Putzi Hanfstaengl knew of Martha’s various romantic relationships, but by the fall of 1933 he had begun to imagine for her a new partner” (154). They are here speaking about setting Martha up with Hitler.
Eric Larson explains that Martha Dodd acted as an intelligent, beautiful, and well-mannered woman who often could not see the wrongs in her decisions and the decisions of Germany. However, beneath the act he shows cases of her “romantic imagination” and “flirtatious manner.” Martha even admits that she “rather enjoyed being treated like a maiden of eighteen knowing all the while my dark secret” (113). Unfortunately, her act did not apply to misunderstanding Germany’s actions towards the Jewish population. She full-heartedly believed that “incidents that did occur were only inadvertent expressions of the wild enthusiasm that had gripped the country" (53). So, while Martha Dodd may have appeared intelligent and beautiful, she hid the naïve and hideous person she truly was.
Martha Dodd in Larson’s The garden of the Beasts is incredibly attention seeking. She enjoys being the center of attention at all the parties and gatherings. She has flings with multiple German officials despite her married status. Martha comes off as somewhat shallow at times, “Martha remain inclined to think the best of the new Germany” (105) even through all the signs that something may be wrong. She also seems to play to the crowd and change her political view based on whose listening. She even goes as far as to defend Germanys actions in treating the Jews stating that “the press reports and atrocity reports were isolated examples exaggerated by close minded people.
Martha Dodd in Larson’s The garden of the Beasts is incredibly attention seeking. She enjoys being the center of attention at all the parties and gatherings. She has flings with multiple German officials despite her married status. Martha comes off as somewhat shallow at times, “Martha remain inclined to think the best of the new Germany” (105) even through all the signs that something may be wrong. She also seems to play to the crowd and change her political view based on whose listening. She even goes as far as to defend Germanys actions in treating the Jews stating that “the press reports and atrocity reports were isolated examples exaggerated by close minded people.
Martha Dodd, in Larson’s, “In the Garden of Beasts” is a young, flirtatious woman who soon falls into an entrancement with Hitler’s Germany. Martha describes,” The excitement of the people was contagious and I ‘Heiled’ as vigorously as any Nazi… the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me.” Martha is a conformist. When presented with Nazi vigor and spirit she immediately throws away her initial opinions of the regime and dives in head first. As a result of this mindset, she meets many high ranking officials in the Nazi Party, including Hitler.
Twenty-four year old daughter to the lead character William Dodd, Martha Dodd is fairly beautiful and carries a personality that makes her the center of attraction. According to Larson, Martha Dodd refracts from the traditional portrayal of women. Martha is outgoing, fun loving, and extreme but immature. She has dated a lot of men old or young. Age didn’t really matter a lot for her. Even when in a Nazi Germany that was sitting on the world as a warhead, Martha could not defy from her nature. She has gone as far to dating the Nazi officers and soldiers and she is also invited by the king of the regime- Hitler- with the same motif. “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha Dodd pretends to be an insightful individual but her actions portray a rather more naive persona.
Martha Dodd is a very interesting character as to how she is and how she acts in relation to the people around her. She is a very attractive women according to the book and her attitude towards people comes across very caring and loving. She is almost on the edge of flamboyance and can come across as a bit over zealous. Even in the society she lives in Nazi Germany a very serious nation on the verge of war she shows her compassion to a bit to many people. She actually gets in close with various officials including the head of the Nazi secret police and at the highest point Hitler himself.
According to Larson, Martha is not the ‘goodie-two-shoes’ type. It is known how she tends to date and experience many, many men. Sometimes it would even be at the same time. News of the beautiful girl “Martha” got all the way to the upcoming leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Larson explains how “Putzi Hansfstaengl knew of Martha’s various romantic relationships, but by the fall of 1933 he had begun to imagine for her a new partner” (154). Martha’s extremely explicit rampage seems to have put her into a world of dangerous trouble.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd is a twenty-four year old American woman. Martha’s beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes makes her stand out from the crowd. “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha seems like an innocent woman, but her motives are different. Martha has a dark secret that she does not share with the men that are sexually involved with her. She is deceiving the men when she says, “I must admit I rather enjoyed being treated like a maiden of eighteen knowing all the while my dark secret” (113). Martha thinks that she lives in a utopia. She spends most of her time with men and thinks Berlin is a great place to live. Her idea of the regime is twisted when she says, “I felt like a child, ebullient and careless, the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me” (95). The Nazi regime kills innocent people, and Martha thinks it is all fun and games.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd is a beautiful, charismatic, romantic young woman. She is intelligent; she writes eloquently. However, she is naïve to the horrors of the Nazi regime. She's convinced that "those incidents that did occur were only inadvertent expressions of the wild enthusiasm that had gripped the country" (53). She fails to understand that it is flat out brutality. Even if she knew this, it probably wouldn't worry her too much, she admits in chapter 10 that "we sort of don't like the Jews anyways" (88). Martha is very fond of being pursued by men. Although she still technically married, she is romantically (or just plain sexually) involved with many men in Berlin. She likes to live slightly on the wild side; she loves excitement. She breaks many men's hearts, such as Max Delbrück, still recalls her "skill of manipulation" (114) forty years after their affair. While the boys might be heartbroken after the break up, she moves on rather quickly. All in all, Martha is a young, vibrant, confident woman; she just needs to be a little more observant of her surroundings.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Martha Dodd is very intelligent, charismatic, and creative, she is very naïve and tends to follow the crowd. This can be seen when Larson says “She too had been shaken by the episode, but she did not let it tarnish her overall view of the country and the revival of spirit cause by the Nazi revolution” (97). Larson doesn’t fail to mention how beautiful and good Martha is at talking to other men. “…She possessed instant cachet and in short order found herself sought after by men of all ranks, ages, and nationalities” (113). She is also evil, almost, she seems to not care about how other people feel, “…She would see other men- and make sure he knew it” (114). The way Larson describes Martha, could foreshadow great horror for Martha and her father William Dodd. In summary, she is beautiful and going to go far if she is careful.
ReplyDeleteIn Erik Larson's "In The Garden of Beasts", Larson depicts Martha as an exotic young women who loves the attention from men. Martha is radiant yet very smart,and she has a very kind heart. Although, Martha is very fond of the men while she is in Germany. Martha is a great person, but she is thottin' around. Larson states that " She considered herself free to behave as she wished and to disclose or not disclose the legal reality of her marriage"(113). Martha Dodd was a free spirit and drew all the attention from men, because she is the ambassadors daughter.
ReplyDeleteIn “In the Garden of Beasts”, Larson portrays Martha as a promiscuous woman. Martha is a beautiful woman who has attracted many men of high ranking in Germany. She is very flirtatious and charismatic women too. Larson talks about how, “She breaks many men's hearts, such as Max Delbrück, still recalls her "skill of manipulation" (114). Martha has a dark secret that she does not let the men she is involved with know. She is very deceiving of men and loves being pursued. Martha does not understand who she gets involved with and it has put her into danger a couple times.
ReplyDeleteIn Erik Larson’s novel “In the Garden of Beasts” he portrays one of the main characters, Martha Dodd, as being very desirable among men. Martha enjoys flirting and getting physical with some of the men she meets. Larson portrays Martha as being a kind of rebel because she dates men that she knows does not look good on her father’s new job as ambassador. Martha is also in denial about what is going on in Germany. Martha receives a visit from a woman named Sigrid Schultz, and she becomes annoyed at the negative stories she tells her about Germany. Larson states, “’I didn’t believe all her stories,’ Martha wrote later. ‘I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.’” (54).
ReplyDeleteIn Erik Larson's novel "In the Garden of Beasts", Larson focuses on a young woman named Martha. Martha comes off as very flirtatious and wild. She chases after married men and brushes off the men who showed her they cared. Martha is blind to what is happening in Germany and just seems to be enjoying her time there. “It was not really important, would create a bad impression, did not reveal actually what was going on in Germany, overshadowed the constructive work they were doing" (98). Martha is definitely an attention seeker. “Putzi Hanfstaengl knew of Martha’s various romantic relationships, but by the fall of 1933 he had begun to imagine for her a new partner” (154). They are here speaking about setting Martha up with Hitler.
ReplyDeleteEric Larson explains that Martha Dodd acted as an intelligent, beautiful, and well-mannered woman who often could not see the wrongs in her decisions and the decisions of Germany. However, beneath the act he shows cases of her “romantic imagination” and “flirtatious manner.” Martha even admits that she “rather enjoyed being treated like a maiden of eighteen knowing all the while my dark secret” (113). Unfortunately, her act did not apply to misunderstanding Germany’s actions towards the Jewish population. She full-heartedly believed that “incidents that did occur were only inadvertent expressions of the wild enthusiasm that had gripped the country" (53). So, while Martha Dodd may have appeared intelligent and beautiful, she hid the naïve and hideous person she truly was.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd in Larson’s The garden of the Beasts is incredibly attention seeking. She enjoys being the center of attention at all the parties and gatherings. She has flings with multiple German officials despite her married status. Martha comes off as somewhat shallow at times, “Martha remain inclined to think the best of the new Germany” (105) even through all the signs that something may be wrong. She also seems to play to the crowd and change her political view based on whose listening. She even goes as far as to defend Germanys actions in treating the Jews stating that “the press reports and atrocity reports were isolated examples exaggerated by close minded people.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd in Larson’s The garden of the Beasts is incredibly attention seeking. She enjoys being the center of attention at all the parties and gatherings. She has flings with multiple German officials despite her married status. Martha comes off as somewhat shallow at times, “Martha remain inclined to think the best of the new Germany” (105) even through all the signs that something may be wrong. She also seems to play to the crowd and change her political view based on whose listening. She even goes as far as to defend Germanys actions in treating the Jews stating that “the press reports and atrocity reports were isolated examples exaggerated by close minded people.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd, in Larson’s, “In the Garden of Beasts” is a young, flirtatious woman who soon falls into an entrancement with Hitler’s Germany. Martha describes,” The excitement of the people was contagious and I ‘Heiled’ as vigorously as any Nazi… the intoxication of the new regime working like wine in me.” Martha is a conformist. When presented with Nazi vigor and spirit she immediately throws away her initial opinions of the regime and dives in head first. As a result of this mindset, she meets many high ranking officials in the Nazi Party, including Hitler.
ReplyDeleteTwenty-four year old daughter to the lead character William Dodd, Martha Dodd is fairly beautiful and carries a personality that makes her the center of attraction. According to Larson, Martha Dodd refracts from the traditional portrayal of women. Martha is outgoing, fun loving, and extreme but immature. She has dated a lot of men old or young. Age didn’t really matter a lot for her. Even when in a Nazi Germany that was sitting on the world as a warhead, Martha could not defy from her nature. She has gone as far to dating the Nazi officers and soldiers and she is also invited by the king of the regime- Hitler- with the same motif. “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha Dodd pretends to be an insightful individual but her actions portray a rather more naive persona.
ReplyDeleteMartha Dodd is a very interesting character as to how she is and how she acts in relation to the people around her. She is a very attractive women according to the book and her attitude towards people comes across very caring and loving. She is almost on the edge of flamboyance and can come across as a bit over zealous. Even in the society she lives in Nazi Germany a very serious nation on the verge of war she shows her compassion to a bit to many people. She actually gets in close with various officials including the head of the Nazi secret police and at the highest point Hitler himself.
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