Category: Kafka

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, is story about Gregor Samsa who is a traveling salesman forced to keep his job in order to pay off his fathers debts and to support his family. There is a great change in the characters physical appearance considering he wakes up as a giant insect. Gregor goes through many…

This year, last May, my family and I visited the Czech Republic, specifically the city of Prague. It was an amazing experience, during which we learned very much about its past and present history. We admired the beautiful Romanesque architecture, we walked along the famous Charles Bridge, and we were able to watch the amazing…

In The Metamorphosis, Kafka portrays the world as an irrational place through an abrupt and unexpected opening to his book. Without explanation, Kafka utilizes In Medias Res to immediately place his audience in the middle of the story with Gregors transformation into a pest. Through his use of this device, Kafka introduces an impossible situation…

The masked anxiety in Kafkas Metamorphosis is a rooted trauma from parental alienation which transforms Gregors self-image from human to bug. The behaviors in the narrative are mirror images of the authors life and are reminiscent of his feelings towards his father. This parental alienation experienced during Kafkas interactions with his father is further demonstrated…

There is no doubt that writing is a way to demonstrate our deepest feelings and beliefs; therefore, it is important to comprehend the background of our writing in order to understand and analyze diverse situations. The purpose of this essay is to develop a comparative analysis between the different works written by Franz Kafka: The…

Have you ever felt out of place in your workplace or community? Society as a whole has several negative aspects with the main being that people are very hollow. One prominent writer such as Franz Kafka laid out some of these critiques in his novel. In The Metamorphosis by Kafka society is shown to be…

The Metamorphosis by Kafka it gives us a story about transformation, abandoned by parents, relationship with sister. Instead of receiving love Gregor is an outcast and trying to find his way to a human again. One would normally think of the home and family as a sanctuary; however the evidence is true for Gregor Samsa…

Alienation is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Alienation is a central theme that Franz Kafka discusses in his story Metamorphosis from the beginning all the way to the end when the main character, Gregor, dies…

A major problem confronting readers of Kafka’s short stories is to find a way through the increasingly dense thicket of interpretations. Among the many approaches one encounters is that of the autobiographical approach. This interpretation claims that Kafka’s works are little more than reflections of his lifelong tension between bachelorhood and marriage or, on another…

Introduction to Bureaucracy in “The Trial” Written at the beginning of the 20th century The Trial depicts the rise of bureaucracy, the power of law, and the atomization of the individual, which are allegorically reflected in a story about Joseph K., a bank employee who is accused of unspecified crimes. This rather surreal and pessimistic…