Kafka's The Metamorphosis presents the reader with many different themes throughout the story, including the significance of entrapment versus escape, as well as dependence. ... However, when the metamorphosis takes place, everything revolving around Gregor changes, especially his family members. The change within the members of Gregor's family is significant in showing the change from entrapment to freedom, while also emphasizing the main theme of dependence. ... Due to the metamorphosis, he can now spend his days in his room entertaining himself and getting to know his own body ...

• Word Count: 1920
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Salinger's respective masterpieces, The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951), examine the universal themes of personal relationships within the context of painful change. ... When Gregor's manager visits, the morning of Gregor's metamorphosis, Gregor says, "Sir! ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the protagonists of each struggle with the same themes. ...

• Word Count: 1076
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The technique of the plot formation in the dialogical novel is realized in artly productive interaction of the theme and problem. The theme intention of the author is corrected by apofatic unpredictability of the hero, and the consciousness of the apofatic hero extends due to the author. ...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two major themes emerge from the study of these brilliant books and the lives of the women they feature: controversial events in the lives of each woman created a sharp divide among the members of each faith tradition; and their alleged adulterous backgrounds originated from and were crystallized by fearful male-dominated hierarchical societies. The analysis of each theme will consist of side-by-side individual evaluations. ...

• Word Count: 3461
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate