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. ... He felt hardly any surprise at his growing lack of consideration of others" (Kafka 48). ... It will be the death of both of you, I can see that coming" (Kafka 51). And later, "It has to go" (Kafka 52). ...

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Franz Kafka is the author of the German novella, "Die Verwandlung" or "The Metamorphosis." ... (Kafka 54). ... We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient" (Kafka 84). ... Since a man cannot possibly become an insect, it seems that Kafka has introduced the supernatural element in his writing. ... In conclusion, Kafka has painted the picture of the bestiality in humans that surface at the slightest provocation. ...

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In both The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Meursault and Gregor, the doomed main characters, accept their fate because of their own mental pressures on themselves, their physical limitations, and the way society judges them. ... Similarly, Gregor mentally accepts his transformation into a "monstrous vermin" (Kafka 3). ...

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