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. ... 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 struggle to get up on the morning of his metamorphosis and attempt to go to work, his unwillingness to let Grete and his mother remove the furniture from his home, and his obsession with the picture of the lady with the furcoat. These events all display Grego...

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Though it is difficult to see a meaning that does not revolve around the aspects of old age, "Transforming Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" by Nina Pelikan Straus, shows the reader that there might be another meaning besides John B. ... It seems as though the mutual characteristic and theme of both subjects, and also the meaning of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, revolves around transformation and the transformation of one who is close to death, seeming as though life has no meaning anymore for them they are not recognized to have human dignity. ... She makes the reader know that...

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. ... The notion of leaving the reader to interpret their own version of the story's meaning is also applicable to Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis," but not directly because of his choice of literary style, nor because of the iceberg theory. ... The 2014 edition of the novella included an afterword on "The Metamorphosis" by ...

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Two works in particular, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht show how society molds its members into perfectly cast models. ... The desire to be accepted by society drives these individuals, especially Gregor from The Metamorphosis and Mother Courage's children from Mother Courage and her Children, to conform or die trying. Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis, shows what happens to the average human being when all aspects of communication are stripped from one's life. Gregor's metamorphosis literal or not, still shows th...

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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. Thus a certain symmetry is to be found in The Metamorphosis: while Gregor falls in the midst of despair, Grete ascends to a self-sufficient woman. ... Gregor's reaction to the violin p...

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Many believe that these life story facts inspired Kafka to write The Metamorphosis. ... Kafka shows not only a metamorphosis in Gregor, but also in his mother, father, and sister as well. ... 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. ...

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Metamorphosis Metamorphosis is a story that is easily related to this ever so cruel world and the life each of us live today. ... Upon metamorphosis, Gregor could no longer provide for himself, which wasn't a problem, or his family who, he was most worried about. ... In the Metamorphosis, Kafka reminds us of how often certain people and things are taken advantage of. ...

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"Parallels between Kafka's life and "The Metamorphosis"" Many authors reflect an aspect of their life in their novels, poems, or theatre. ... These three characteristics may be seen in what is considered to be his masterpiece; The Metamorphosis. ... As we see throughout "The Metamorphosis", Gregor was always trying to make his parents happy and especially there is a feeling of absolute respect towards his father. ... In "The Metamorphosis" although we don't know much about Gregor's father we can appreciate a certain relation with Kafka's as it seems that Gregor is work...

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Collector by John Fowles, is an assertion of the power of spirit of love and obsession, but not as a natural, pure feeling. It is obsession that goes beyond control and regulation, obsession that in one way or another leads into the destruction of many human beings...

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