Franz von Holzhausen

The Reward of the Eager Beaver During this topic, it talks about how a man got defensive and was a little bit of a threat to one of his co-workers, by telling him that he needs to pace himself, that the other men who also work at this cable job are older, with kids and are married and that they can't work as fast as him and that his speed is making all of his co-workers look bad, because when they have extra time they do not do any extra work, they sit around and read they paper in the shade…

While at first glance the characters, settings, and difficulties faced in Judith Guest’s Ordinary People seem mundane and commonplace, the novel’s subtext, about a psychological battle against the self, transforms this “ordinary” WASP family into an extraordinary family in despair. Conrad, the protagonist, and son of Beth and Calvin, returns from the hospital and prepares for his first day of school since his suicide attempt, which was fueled by his immense guilt over the death of his brother,…

One character throughout “The Crucible” who constantly has these two forces tugging at them throughout the whole play is John Proctor. Since Proctor is a farmer living in Salem with his wife, Elizabeth, and his sons; he is a well respected member in his community. Being a very central character in the play, he is very concerned about his reputation in his society, therefore he faces these external and internal conflicts that ultimately causes his fate at the end of the play. By being pulled by…

“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun” - William Glasser. In kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, the will and want to belong in show quite plainly by a man whose life is completely turned around. Gregor’s, an average working man, body is transformed into a bug, and he slowly is becoming misunderstood and resented, leaving nothing to belong to. He loses his job and even his own family does not love him any longer. He is forced into becoming an…

The Arrival Sam is a grown man that lives with his wife and daughter. But he had to go away because the government needs people to work and he’s were obligate to go. He’s wife and daughter were sad that he’s was leaving. The next morning they were getting dressed up to go to the train station. Sam wife and daughter were saying goodbye to him. When Sam arrived from the train he needed to get on the boat to arrive to Paris they had a doctor to check on him to see if he’s was healthy. When they…

Often when discussing works of literature, there are many aspects that are taken into consideration. Critics often look at style, prose, plot line, consistency, the best writers are the ones that can combine these mediums into one piece that is engaging and meaningful. These mediums are very important tools of literature, but it can also be argued that what is not said is just as or even more important than what is. The influence of symbolism gives a story depth and can take flat characters,…

Franz Kafka’s – The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka in 1915 which challenges his reader’s conceptualization of deprivation in eternal servitude. My classification of eternal servitude relates to Gregor Samsa’s position as the primary financial support network for his parents and sister, which carries an immense physical and emotional toll on his existence. I believe that Kafka attempted to illustrate his personal struggle through Gregor Samsa’s character.…

Initially describing normal, everyday, almost boring events, only to disrupt this sense of normality at the very end, taking what is familiar and making it strange. The disruption of the reader’s expectation is what we call a Defamiliarization effect. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the author makes the reader experience a familiar object or situation in a new way, from a new angle, and gain a fresh perspective. In Metamorphosis, the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning where he…

and is demonstrated in various works in literature, in which the physical state of a character later leads to a psychological impact on the individual. While representing different cultural and literary movements, E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis can both be said to reflect the theme of the Supervenience relationship in similar yet contrasting ways. Through the falling action of each of the works’ protagonist, The Sandman and The Metamorphosis explore the battle…

Literature: ENG-2403 12/3/16 In many of Franz Kafka’s writings you get a view into his personal life but it is simply a reflection. This does not exclude his short story “The Metamorphosis,” in which critics have concluded it is more of an autobiography. Kafka tells this short story through Freud’s unconscious theory. The unconscious mind consists of “feelings thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness” (Cherry). In “The Metamorphosis” Franz Kafka uses…