Franz Kafka Essay

Phoniness, falsehood, uneasiness, tension, indecision, gray flannel aspirations, and insecurity were the defining propositions of the decade. Suburbia, American dream, and gender roles also ruled the decade. When men entered domesticity after a long absence after postwar they found it very difficult to settle down. They felt uneasiness and frustration and found it difficult to manage home, work and their very identity. The unrest in the mid-1950s was gauged by the same uneasy representation…

experience everyday. In literature, if there was no change, there would be no story, and no purpose in reading. Change is a common theme demonstrated in three different compositions by three different authors who hold similar views. Metamorphosis by Kafka, the Metamorphosis graphic novel by Kuper, and the short film Rivers and Tides narrated by Goldsworthy all mostly demonstrated negative changes. Once Gregor makes his tragic transformation into a cockroach, one of the biggest changes he…

Why does a dragon horde gold? This was one of the questions Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson posed during a lecture. Peterson used the metaphor of a dragon to illustrate why you must overcome your fears instead of ignoring them. Peterson used the children's book There's No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent to elaborate on this metaphor. In the story, a young boy awakes to a dragon sitting at the end of the bed. After patting the dragon's head, the boy runs downstairs to tell his mother.…

One day, our main character Gregor wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a vermin. He looks around his room, which appears normal, and decides to go back to sleep to forget about what has happened. He attempts to roll over, only to discover that he cannot due to his new body He begins to reflect on his life as a traveling salesman and how he would quit if his parents and sister did not depend so much on his income. Gregor’s mother soon knocks on the door, and when he answers her…

“Through Glass” Family unity is achieved through each family member supporting each other and working together in harmony. Although this is not the case in the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. In this play the family is portrayed as dysfunctional, they seem to be together because they feel obligated to be part of the Wingfield family. The father abandoned the family, making Amanda, his wife, responsible for the children, Tom and Laura. As time passed, Tom felt obligated to…

1. Do you consider McCandless heroic or crazy? In what sense? I believe McCandless is crazy because he left his family and all modern technology to live off the land in Alaska to fulfill a delusion. McCandless was a selfish person that took advantage of his parents and all the people that offered to help his with his journey. At the end of McCandless even realized his plans were deeply flawed because he was nearing his own death, which is explained in this quote, “S.O.S. I need your help. I am…

In the past there has been a stereotype that all cowboys are good guys, and they will do whatever it takes to bring justice to the well-known hero complex. In James Mangold's film “3:10 to Yuma”, Dan Evans is the cowboy who falls the most into the stereotype of being a better leader. He sacrifices his life to bring the thief, Ben Wade to his long journey of killing to a well anticipated end. Dan Evans follows the stereotype from the beginning. He is married with kids and has something to fight…

Haroun and The Sea of Stories Annotations Chapter 1: The story begins describing a very sad city, one that is so sad, that it doesn’t know its name and there are glumfish. There may have been a tragic event that has happened here. I wonder what that tragic event was, or it could also be just an emptiness in life. “they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue.” There was a man who was able to ignore all of the sadness and cheer children up with his stories and his…

The experience of a minority in America is fundamentally different than that of a white American. In Sherman Alexie’s Flight Patterns, the reader has an opportunity to delve into the mind of not one, but two completely different sets of minorities and their viewpoints. Using comedy, Alexie touches on the differences between William and Fekadu, their trials and tribulations of the past and present, and most importantly the things they have in common. Unfortunately, the cliché story of an African…

That's when I know it's time to get up. As a result, there is no need to set my alarm for 7:15 anymore - the yelling and chaos outside my door that is more reminiscent of a war zone than a family home is enough to break my deep sleep cycle. While I gather my football clothes from the laundry room and climb into the shower adjacent to my room, I listen in to the everlasting struggle of my step-father trying to corral my three brothers and get them ready for school. Even the most mundane,…