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A 5 page essay that examines the significance of the 'host of the beast' and the 'host of the lamb' in Boll's masterpiece, 'Billiards at Half-Past Nine.' No additional sources cited.
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of the Beast" and the "Host of the Lamb" refer, respectively, to the powerful people in the world, the exploiters, and their opposite, those people who do not exploit, who
refuse to be the aggressors in human relationships and who would rather die themselves, then to take life. References to the "lambs" clearly have relevance to a Christian framework, yet
they appear to also refer to the innocent! victims of the Nazi atrocities , who were mostly Jewish. Schrella, a man who fled Germany because of the Nazis, and was
incarcerated on his return because his name was still on the "wanted persons" list, explains the concept: " Were Lambs...Weve sworn never to put the Host of the Beast to
our lips " (Boll 48). It can easily been seen, therefore, that Boll uses the "Host of the Beast" to specifically address
Germanys militarist and nationalist establishment, which so recently ruined so much of Europe and the world. (All of the action in the book takes place during a single day, September
6, 1958.) Boll, in speaking of Germanys past, specifically connects Hindenburg, a rather mediocre German general of the First World War, whom the Germany viewed as a war hero and
who, due to his simplistic patriotism, because the rallying point and father figure to the nationalist movements! of the 1920s, to the "host of the beast." It is intriguing to
note that in establishing the polarity of the "Host of the Beast" for the aggressor and the "Host of the Lamb" for the victims, he does not parallel his choice
of "lamb" with "wolf." By avoiding this choice, Boll gives this model for human interaction a broader context then one that is entirely Christian. By choosing the generic "beast,"
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