Kafkas Metamorphosis Essay -- Metamorphosis essays

Kafkas Metamorphosis       As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself       transformed in his bed into a gigantic plant louse (Kafka 1757).       This opening is famous not only for its startling content exclusively also for its       calm, matter-of-fact style which then sets the tone for the rest of the       explanation. along with Homers Iliad and Odyssey and Dantes Inferno, Franz       Kafkas The Metamorphosis has one of the most-memorized and most       attention-catching opening lines.         Gregor Samsa tints that he has been treated as a lowly insect and comes to       feel that he is one the story makes the leap from I feel like an insect       to I am an insect. Whatever the causes for Gregor mental picture this way,       these causes have led to his isolation and alienation (the feeling of       being a stranger and an alien, even in those places where one should feel       at home). Gregor has undergone an ultimate alienation he is alienated       from both his psychological and physical self.         Once Gregors metamorphosis (change) has been accomplished, the story       moves inevitably to his death. In umteen ways, the protagonist (main       character) of The Metamorphosis and his dilemmas are... ..., his company). We feel a chill to see the dominating control       over Gregor and how it works itself out in the story. And those of us who       whap the history of Germany and Czechoslovakia are chilled to see how the       events of the story find a couple in t he Nazi politics and the Holocaust       that came soon after Kafkas death.              hightail it Cited         Kafka, Franz.  The Metamorphosis. Norton Anthology of World       Masterpieces.  Ed. Maynard Mack et al. 2 vols. Exp. ed. New York Norton,       1995.  Vol. 2. 1757-1791.