Franz von Holzhausen

Culture is the total system of ideas, values, behaviours, and attitudes of a society commonly shared by most members of a society. According to Statistics Canada, the NHS Profile of 2011 displays that Canada’s population of 32 852 320 is made up of 20.6% immigrants. This also implies that a potential of a fifth of Canada’s population has brought along the characteristics of their practiced culture from their former country. Canada comprises of multiple cultures such as Canadian, English, French,…

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness” (Alejandro Jodorowsky). People who have always lacked freedom fail to understand the importance of being able to grow and find individuality. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis explores the role of the individual, and what it takes as well as what must be sacrificed in order to find contentment in a capitalistic society. Individuals find that society constantly imposes limitations upon them, most since birth. Humanity is not taught to rise above the…

Franz Kafka wrote the novel right after the climax so the entire plot is the downfall and the conclusion. The reader has no idea how or why Gregor was transformed into a bug; they just know that he woke up one morning and was a giant bug. The isolation and despair felt by Gregor was also felt by Franz Kafka. During the time period it was written, the early 1900s, there was a lot of despair felt during…

people when encountered by a new experience. In the book, The Lord of the Flies, William Golding illustrates the flaws of a society when the characters stumble upon the wraths of nature and change themselves. In addition, the novella, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, represents the alteration in a lifestyle when a hardworking man wakes up and discovers that his life turns around when he morphs into a vermin. Both pieces of literature are prime examples that demonstrate the tribulations that procure…

First, Franz Kafka’s “Letter to His Father” goes into depth of the rough childhood Kafka experienced and how that turned him into a timid and fearful person. Since he and his father have so many sharp differences, Kafka can not connect and understand his father…

The Dual Metamorphosis of Gregor and Grete The world is not a rational place. This is one of the foundational thoughts of Existentialism. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis was published in 1915. The short novella is about Gregor Samsa, who buries himself in his work and his family. This family does not respect, appreciate, or acknowledge his sacrifice. Gregor knows that his family has a low opinion of him, and he accepts this as his fate. Gregor works a thank less job to work off his father’s…

Philosophers have debated what the meaning of life is; people have also sought equality for centuries. In Kafka’s works, “In the Penal Colony” and “The Metamorphosis”, there is an emphasis on unquestionably following society’s rules resulting in flaws which accompany doing so; mainly injustice resulting from superior authority and the issue of existentialism which arises from being rejected from society, respectively. Kafka demonstrates this through an allegory of religion and the unfulfilled…

The Metamorphosis is a Novella about a man, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning and realized that he has been transformed from a human being to an oversized bug. Gregor is confused and unsure of what had happened to him but he decided to deal with it and learn how to live with his new body. Throughout the whole book Gregor tried to continue to have relationship with his family but after a few weeks he only became burden on them and not being able to have that relationship with them weighted…

Both writers see narrative as overwhelmingly malleable, shattering traditional novel forms. Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is diffuse with, tone, plot, and characters seem to wander all over the map. Gunter Grass’ My Century is constructed in a similar manor. However, both novels carry a strong thematic and emotional content. Kubdera’s shattered, oblique approach to narrative, and Grass’ step-by-step march through the years. This essay will comment on the effectiveness of…

One of the heartbreaking qualities of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is that despite having a family, Gregor Samsa is a lonely and unwanted man. While he cares so much for them that he is willing to sacrifice his happiness in order to support them, they are distant and inconsiderate towards him. His metamorphosis only makes them ashamed of and disgusted by him, thus proving that unconditional love -even for a relative- is inexistent. When Gregor wakes up at the beginning of the story, although…