Question: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral?
The Interactive Oral presentations helped me further understand the deeper meaning in The Metamorphosis by taking themes from the book and going into depth of how these themes played a major role in the development of Gregor as a bug and as a person trapped in his mental illness. In articles cited during the presentations, the authors find ways of how Kafka used Gregor’s family and his transformation to relate back to Kafka himself. For instance, in one article, the author saw how Gregor’s father treated him and related that back to the relationship that Kafka and his own