This is apparent in a letter to his father he wrote, "What was always incomprehensible to me was your total lack of feeling for the suffering and shame you could inflict on me with your words and judgments. ... This fiction included Meditation (1913), a collection of short prose pieces; The Judgment (1913), a long short story, written in 1912, which Kafka himself considered his decisive breakthrough (it tells of a rebellious son condemned to suicide by his father); and The Metamorphosis (1915), dealing again with the outsider, a son who suffers the literal and symbolic transformation into a hu...

• Word Count: 674
• Approx Pages: 3
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He cannot even stand up for what he believes to be right, such as the idea of sending his sister to the Conservatory to play the violin, something that "would come up in conversations with his sister, but always merely as a beautiful dream which was not supposed to come true, and his parents were not happy to hear even these innocent allusions" (27). ... As Gregor's life is spent in servitude to his family, his lack of independence is revealed, and he withers away into a disgusting bug, embodying the idea that complete dependence is repulsive. ... She was "no longer considering what...

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

Franz Kafka said, "My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast." ... Kafka knew that the family had to want its independence from Gregor but still guiltless in attaining it; the only way to make this work was to make Gregor repulsive to them. ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Franz Kafka uses a style of writing that has a similar effect, and has been compared to a literary Rorschach test, which causes the reader to determine "hidden" meanings in his works, depending on what they wish to see or read (Link 4). ... Another explanation to the wide variety of hidden meanings is that both authors, Kafka and Hemingway, wanted their work to be ambiguous so that their audiences would be able to argue different meanings depending on what they considered to be most important (Straus 652; Sokel 204). ... Hemingway's works have been edited, analyzed, and rewritte...

• Word Count: 3072
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Evidently any writers personal lifestyle and experiences influence who they are, therefore influencing what drives them to write what they do. ... The protagonist, Emma Bovary is a naive romantic, constantly searching for someone in her life to provide her what she has limited herself to believe is an ideal love life and lifestyle. Her ignorance is the cause of her constant unhappiness, that is only at times relived through romantic affairs she has with men that manipulate her sexually and provide to her what she's always dreamed of. ...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate