seen in their relationship with their father and in their feeling of alienation. A difference can be seen in their responsibilities. The aim of this paper is to examine some of the many similarities and few differences between Franz Kafka and Gregor Samsa. Through close inspection‚ The Metamorphosis can be seen as Kafka’s way to reflect his personal life. Throughout their lives‚ both Kafka and Gregor felt a sense of alienation in their life. According
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In “The Metamorphosis‚” by Franz Kafka‚ Gregor’s life is entirely controlled by his family and work. He never takes the time to fulfill his personal happiness. His main priority is to memorize train schedules and make sure he arrives on time to work. From his bedroom window‚ he watches the outside world‚ but he never attempts to get outside and live life like a normal person. Although he does travel a lot‚ for his job‚ he doesn’t actually know much about the world. All he ever does is focus on working
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet- Signifying Death Regardless of a person’s age or literary preference it is undeniable that William Shakespeare had a flair for composing dramatic tragedies. Tragedy‚ when evident is a powerful underlining theme which portrays the qualities of the human capacity. In one of Shakespeare’s most brilliant plays‚ Hamlet‚ tragedy is portrayed through the protagonist’s constant contemplation of suicide. Shakespeare often alludes to powerful images of death by using
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The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a short story that is filled with a lot of ideas to analyze and criticize‚ and that could be looked at from a lot of point of views. The story is about a man named Gregor Samsa‚ who works as a salesman in order to support his parents and his sister‚ also to pay off his father’s dept. the story begins when he wakes up in one morning late for work‚ and finds himself transformed into a giant insect. For the months to come his
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Paul Abante Mrs. Bugni English 12 honors 5 January 2015 Existentialism Life’s remorseless nature presents uncontrollable situations to everyone at the most unexpected times. Like any game of cards‚ life deals a set of cards that a player is forced to play. This is known as agency; the concept that each human individual within a culture has the ability to determine and choose by free will his or her actions. Some prime examples that shine this principle is Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”
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THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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His father feels Gregor has not become successful and a failure. He probably also feels that he has let his sister down along with his mother for not being supportive enough as the father was not. Continuing with the same concept of Mr. Samsa not being a good father‚ Gregor felt alienated again by his mother and sister by not filling
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control of the body can conflict the mind‚ and decimate social status‚ as well as alter the very essence of one’s identity. When he awakes one morning to find his human body replaced with that of a bug in Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis‚ Gregor Samsa does not immediately realize the drastic repercussions of this event; that with the loss of his human body comes the loss of his identity. No longer is he Gregor‚ but instead is a “monstrous vermin” (1). He has become unable to control his physical
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SUICIDE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS Suicide has become a critical‚ national problem and the extent of this is mind-boggling. Suicides have been proven to be one of the leading causes of death among college students. According to Webters dictionary "suicide is the act killing oneself on purpose". It derived from the Latin sui‚ meaning "self"‚ and caedere‚ which means "to kill". But this is just a definition‚ because an actual suicide holds different meanings to people such as tragic‚ shocking‚ a relief
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and classical scene‚ in which the kneeling Narcissus has become the statue of a hand‚ holding a cracked egg‚ from which emerges The Narcissus flower. This painting reminded me of the first chapter of Metamorphosis‚ where the main character‚ Gregor Samsa‚ first realizes that he is confronted with a ludicrous fate in the form of a gigantic insect. In both Kafka’s and Dali’s work‚ I noticed that they both implement a certain "receding" technique. Dali tends to put an object (In this case‚ Narcissus)
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