Cockroach

rapidly promoting the desertification through the voice of Archy, a little cockroach. In his essay, “what the ants are saying,” Marquis states that human are the main cause for devastating the natural environment and promoting the desertification through Archy’s voice. With a realistic tone, and the way Marquis realistically writes the poem to even such little details such as using lower case words because Archy is a cockroach and he can’t jump on the shift key to indicate that the problems we…

Through life, many people come across a lot of individuals who are all unique and special in their own way. For instance, we meet some of these people in relation to families, jobs and specific areas. Accordingly, people get in touch with each other which contributes to a responsibility. We ought to take care of our neighbour. But in the last resort, it can be a too heavy burden to assume. What to do with such a burden and the consequences of it are exactly what the short story “Insignificant…

symbolization of this vivid imagery that Bukowski uses to refers to all the characteristics of love. For example, "love is the cockroach" could express the horrible nature of falling in love (). Having to commit to a person and the uneasiness of feelings over which you have no control. Or perhaps he's talking about how love is invincible just like the small but mighty cockroach who can survive the threat of a nuclear bomb,…

Samsa is an imposing figure who probably represents Kafka’s own father, and was the driving force behind his metamorphosis. I think the creature represents Kafka’s vision of escaping from his father’s oppressive nature. When Gregor awoke as a cockroach the morning this story began, he didn’t panic or fret the way I would have in that situation. It seemed like he was expecting such a change to happen. Gregor was aware of his…

she does I would become popular. One day, we were eating breakfast and suddenly she looked down, and she saw a cockroach walking under the table and she started screaming. As a child who I was, I started screaming without reason too until my aunt came to see what is happening. After the incident, I asked my cousin why she reacted like that and she answered me that one time one cockroach came to her and she thought it would bite her, so from that day on she started to fear them. After that, I…

expected to support each other and love each other unconditionally. Gregor’s family did not meet all of these expectations. They pushed him away when he needed them the most; they did not believe that Gregor was still himself after he changed to a cockroach. Gregor’s transformation greatly affected his relationship with his family, and roles shifted within the family also. Before the transformation, Gregor was the sole provider for his family. His father and mother claimed to be too disabled…

in the Caribbean, and when the Emancipation Act was passed, the Cosway family was not only ruined but also vulnerable to abuse from the local black communities. Antoinette recalls that one day a little girl followed here, chanting “Go away white cockroach, go away, go away” (Rhys, 20). The child’s chants demonstrate that the once white-supremacist thinking has turned around, and now the blacks hold the power. White Creoles, who were initially considered the top of the food chain (except when…

Throughout history, identity has gained the connotation of being one’s personality and behaviour. In Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, those that harbour an true identity of their own form a healthy mentality, whereas those that are deprived of possessing a true identity deteriorate mentally. The characters’ ability to form a healthy mental state is inhibited by their loss of self-identity, loss of racial identity and by gender interfering with their ability to embody a true identity. Therefore,…

found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.” (505) Although in a physical sense, Gregor has already reached the final stage of his transformation, it is the transformation of his mental state which is of greater importance. Right after changing into a cockroach, Gregor is still Gregor, evident by his eagerness to not miss work, emphasized by repetition of “Seven o’clock” (508). Gregor’s initial preoccupation is not about becoming a cockroach, but instead, about being late for…

Each story relies heavily on this random act of God that sets the story in motion. With “The Metamorphosis” it was Gregor’s transformation into a cockroach, in “American Beauty” it was the basketball game and for “The Country Husband” it was the plane crash. Each of these events caused such a disruption in the character’s everyday lives that they were forced to adapt and cope in extremely drastic, and…