Data Sheet Analysis for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Noah Watkins
Nosky
Analysis of Major Works
12/4/12
Major Works Data Sheet
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| |Details of the setting (include changes in setting): |
|Author: Franz Kafka |The entirety of the novel takes place within the confines of the |
| |Samsa's apartment, save for the final paragraph, where the family |
|Date of Publication: 1915 |goes off to country. No location is revealed, all we know is that it |
| |is near a hospital and overlooks a busy street. But Kafka confined |
|Title: Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) |the action even further, stating that a majority of the action takes |
| |place within Gregor's room, described as "a proper human room |
| |although a little too small, [laying] peacefully between its four |
| |familiar walls" (Kafka 3). The only thing actually described in the |
| |room is a framed picture of a woman in furs, described as " a lady |
| |fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a |
| |heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the |
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Nosky
Analysis of Major Works
12/4/12
Major Works Data Sheet
|Note: You may download from Edline or email me for a Word version of this sheet. |
| |Details of the setting (include changes in setting): |
|Author: Franz Kafka |The entirety of the novel takes place within the confines of the |
| |Samsa's apartment, save for the final paragraph, where the family |
|Date of Publication: 1915 |goes off to country. No location is revealed, all we know is that it |
| |is near a hospital and overlooks a busy street. But Kafka confined |
|Title: Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) |the action even further, stating that a majority of the action takes |
| |place within Gregor's room, described as "a proper human room |
| |although a little too small, [laying] peacefully between its four |
| |familiar walls" (Kafka 3). The only thing actually described in the |
| |room is a framed picture of a woman in furs, described as " a lady |
| |fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a |
| |heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the |
|
Cited: Corngold, Stanley. "The Structure of Kafka 's Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor." Critical Insights: The Metamorphosis. Ed. James Whitlark. N.p.: Salem, 2011. N. pag. Salem Literature. Web. 6 Oct. 2012. . Goldfarb, Sheldon. "Critical Essay on 'The Metamorphosis '." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. N. pag. Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 Oct. 2012. . Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, Or, the Whale. New York: Signet Classic, 1998. Print. Rine, Marjorie E. "Rushdie 's Homage to Kafka: Metamorphoses in The Satanic Verses and Shame." Critical Insights: The Metamorphosis. Ed. James Whitlark. N.p.: Salem Press, 2011. N. pag. Salem Literature. Web. 6 Oct. 2012. . Shakespeare, William, Barbara A. Mowat, and Paul Werstine. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Washington Square Press new Folger ed. New York: Washington Square, 2002. Print.