Here, as elsewhere, the narrator evinces great reluctance to describe specific acts of physical violence or physical brutality. ... The potential for structural violence is illustrated in Boll's presentation of the police, who are shown as limiting the personal freedom and infringing the dignity of ordinary citizens. The huge apparatus of police surveillance brought to bear on Katharina and her associates highlights the structural (bullying) violence clearly. ... In this manner, the text satirizes the police operations and positions the reader to condemn the immorality of their violations...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These factors influence many citizens to brutality and cruel acts towards other people. ... When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on a television show. ...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School