Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka once stated that a book should be used as "an axe to break up the frozen sea within us," and his short story, "The Metamorphosis" does not stray from doing so. ... His criticism of the modern capitalist society and the human preoccupation with financial security is quite apparent and "The Metamorphosis" acts as an "axe" to get the reader to see his view. ... After Gregor's metamorphosis, he becomes clearly unsuited for his work. ... It is almost like a death to the family rather than a metamorphosis. ... After the metamorphosis, Gregor&#x...

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"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin" (433) it is apparent that Kafka meant something underneath the surface. Awakening from unsettling dreams could mean awakening from an uneasy, labored life by quitti...

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Many believe that these life story facts inspired Kafka to write The Metamorphosis. ... However, as the family adjusts to Gregor's metamorphosis, they adjust their lives accordingly. ... Samsa, the father in The Metamorphosis, corresponds to Franz's real father. ... This metamorphosis also marks Gregor's freedom as an individual. ... The apple itself could likely symbolize abusive words and harsh criticism. ...

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Consider the way Worster's version of Thoreau's empirically rooted difference from Emerson's figuratively deracinated use of nature has extended into recent criticism that gives greater attention to Thoreau's unpublished work after Walden (1854). ...

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Many stories and fables have been told and passed down from generation to generation, yet two have survived the test of time and criticism. The Biblical account in Genesis, probably written by Moses around 1500 B.C., and the story of creation and flood in Ovid's Metamorphosis, written somewhere between 8 and 17 A.D., have weathered the criticism and become the most famous. ... It is because of these variations in writing and technique that each of these poems have acquired and maintained the respect they truly deserve through many years of evaluation and criticism....

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"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor: And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we;"* It begins with a quite severe criticism of innocence through its" divine attributes such as "pity" and "mercy". ... "* The "divine attributes of innocence", in the second stanza, undergo a sinister metamorphosis to prepare for "Blake's naturalistic fall of man"*, much like the traditional fall commonly known as the story of Adam and Eve, it involves a tree. ...

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For instance, In 1589 Thomas Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis explains about "Glaucus, the amorous sea-god, blazes his mistress's, Venus, body in ostentatiously sexual terms." ... Overall writers use these catalogs for enjoyment and for political criticism. ...

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I have always been struck by the incredible volume and variety of Kafka criticism and theory that is available. ... In a story such as "The Metamorphosis," for example, Gregor is not "either" a beast "or" a man, but in some ways he is both at the same time, and in some ways he is neither. ...

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Analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Many say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. ...

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When two or more witnesses give their account of an event, the story never comes out the same. The differences, as Browning fully realized in The Ring and the Book(1868-69), provide for powerful ironic tensions. Over and over again, in Browning's poem, the story is told of what happened on the fatal night when Count Guido Franceschini went in seach of his seventeen-year-old bride Pompilia who, in the company of the handsome young priest Giuseppe Caponsacchi, had runaway from his ancient villa and returned home to her parents in Rome. And in every telling there is another version of the mo...

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William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. ...

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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. The most critical account of the mind-body theory was first systematically carried out by De...

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Guitar Heroes Perhaps the most influential experience in everybody's life occurs everytime they listen to music that makes them cry, laugh, or drive a little faster down the freeway. Music, which magnifies certain emotions to express what someone feels during particular events, has been around si...

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Four planes: Idea of "education" becomes an "aid to life" - a natural process all children undertake spontaneously, guided through ever evolving stages of development. Montessori had a profound respect for the child. She marveled at the constructive possibilities within the child, and hope for hu...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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