The Role of Secondary Characters in the Plague and the Metamorphosis In the novels The Metamorphosis and The Plague the role of secondary characters is a crucial one. ... In contrast to much of Kafka's fiction, The Metamorphosis has not a sense of incompleteness. ... This change represents her metamorphosis from adolescence into adulthood but at the same time it marks the final demise of Gregor. ... In strange irony, he tells the story of a Bishop who exiles himself in an ancient time of plague only to have "corpses rained down on his head." ... Gregor's reaction to the violin p...

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One can see that irony is the platform that brings about entertainment in Vonnegut's tale. ... The irony is that the reason the three didn't burn his body right away was to see a ceremony for a group of soldiers who were trying to help save the world, and this ceremony, in a sense, ended the world. ... Another truth of life that can be seen through allegory is a theme that Kafka discusses in The Metamorphosis, the enslavement of man to the forces of materialism. ...

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"Fire is the omnipresent image through which Bradbury frames metamorphosis and rebirth. ... It is the ultimate irony, almost poetic, that in all of his mentioning of censorship, he is the one censored in the end. ...

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