Christa Wolf inherited the ideas about crisis of legitimacy and the legitimating function of mythology of the early romanticists. By taking this as the starting point of his literary creation, Wolf detected the potential of renovation in this retrospect. In a skillful way, Wolf applied the conception about "New Mythology" to the depiction of the self-consciousness and the individual formation of Kassandra. From the perspective of Kassandra, Wolf rewrote the history of the Trojan War, with the aim to criticize the weaknesses of the German nation...
