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 insect (Kafka 1757).       This opening is famous not only for its startling content but also for its       calm, matter-of-fact style which then sets the tone for the rest of the       flooring. 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 feels 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 feeling this way,       these causes have led to his isolation and alienation (the feeling of       universe 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.         at once Gregors metamorphosis (change) has been accomplished, the story       moves inevitably to his death. In many ways, the protagonist (main       character) of The Metamorphosis and his dilemmas are... ..., his company). We feel a chill to see the authoritarian control       over Gregor and how it deeds itself out in the story. And those of us who       know the history of Germany and Czechoslovakia are chilled to see how the       events of the story find a parallel in the Nazi politics and the final solution       that came soon after Kafkas death.              Work 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.