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. At first glance it can be seen as a simple story of a young man who wakes up one morning as a vermin, yet Kafka makes sure to highlight the changed relationships between the family members after the metamorphosis takes place, showing the intricacy/depth of the story. ... However, when the metamorphosis takes place, everything revolving around Gregor changes, especially his family members. ... Through the relationsh...

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

Kafka's The Metamorphosis exemplifies great use of imagery throughout the work and at the same time uses it to contribute to some larger meaning in the story. There are multiple occurences where Kafka refers to events such as his struggle to keep his furniture in his room, to keep the picture of the lady, or to merely get out of bed to go to work, that represent his struggle and wanting to return to human form. Kafka uses these events to show the desire and the struggle Gregor experienced in his effort to retreat from his metamorphosis. ... Some of these events include his struggl...

• Word Count: 802
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

German writer Franz Kafka's and American J.D. 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! ... Kafka adds humor and irony with the modifier "if possible," which only serves to exacerbate Gregor's pain at being totally abandoned. ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the...

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

"Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka and "Pastoralia," by George Saunders are two pieces of literature that seem to vary in many aspects. ... Gregor, suffers from physical transformation as one day he wakes up from his sleep to realize that he's a vermin (Kafka 1). ... When he wakes up one fine day only to see himself being transformed into a vermin, rather than worrying about his physical state the only thing he is worried about is how he could get to work, or what his employers would think of him (Kafka 1). ... I will simply say: we have to try to get rid of it" (Kafka 68). ...

• Word Count: 949
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate