Essays on Metamorphosis

It is apparent in our class readings, that when the gods are angry at the humans they created, these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth, and kill the human race. Over the years, there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts,…

“Paul’s Case” and Frank Kafka’s, “Metamorphosis” are short stories written in the early twentieth century, merely ten years apart. When comparing and contrasting these short stories, the reader finds that both stories share a similar point of view and the recurring themes of alienation and money run throughout these works. Both “Paul’s Case” and “The…

On one level, this opus of David Fincher – based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk and spotlighting Brad Pitt as “Tyler Burden”, Edward Norton as the nerdy narrator, and Helena Bonham-Carter as the woman who reels in both men – is a gratuitous appeal to vicariously-experienced violence. Viewed once or twice more, the paradox…

Although Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ are set in dissimilar social environments, they have a number of common themes, one of which is sacrifice. Both Gregor Samsa and Santiago Nasar are depicted as ‘sacrifices’, whose deaths ostensibly purify their communities from the sins of dishonor and alienation. The…

Sandra Cisneros is an amazing writer. Growing up as a shy, introverted girl, no one would have ever thought she would eventually become a successful and very accomplished author, especially since she is a Mexican woman coming from a poor upbringing. In one of her works, “Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”, she…

            Franz Kafka takes his place in the annals of Western literature as an author and unique mind responsible for some of the most surreal, yet socially conscious works in history.  His impact remains so great that in certain situations of severe alienation and social confusion, people often use the term “Kafkaesque” to describe the…

Isolationism in Metamorphosis and Notes from Underground World Literature: Paper 2 The common subject in both Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is isolationism. Both of these literary plants contain different illustrations of isolationism in order to convey the same construct. Privacy exists in both novels, ensuing in the direct…

Metamorphosis is an illustrious short story, which manifests Kafka’s complex character, his beliefs, and real-life dilemmas. It highlights the existentialist credo by elucidating the quandaries faced by an individual in the face of absurdity. Kafka critiques the impersonal and materialistic society around us, which mitigates individualism, restricts freedom, and engenders alienation. A whirlwind of redundancy…

An Analytical Essay Introduction      The metaphorical presentation of people in different stories have long been used by authors to actually send their messages to the readers in a much indirect procedure. However, in the story of Kafka entitled “Metamorphosis”, the use of an animal is more of an actualization of the person, in fact,…

The Metamorphosis is a wild ride from cover to cover. The novel begins where most novels end, at the climax.  This unique use of narration by Kafka is a literary device which is not often used but central to the plot of this novel.  It allows the reader to focus fully on the most important…