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Coming from two completely different backgrounds and lifestyles, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Franz Kafka managed to write pieces of literature that share several features. While possessing their own unique characteristics, two short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, also have a great amount in common. Focusing on both inner and physical transformations, several parallels can be drawn between the two. They also share themes such…

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer in the late 18th and early 19th century. His most famous novel Titan portrayed his style of writing, which was very extreme during his life with Paul writing about vivid details particularly on the emotional spectrum. This is also showed in many admirers of Paul’s writing were predominantly women. Schumann said in respect for Jean Paul’s writing, “ In all of his works, Jean Paul mirrors himself, but always as two persons, he is Albano and Schoppe [in Titan]…

Often a writer 's personal experiences impact the way a character and his surroundings are created. In the novel The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Gregor, the main character, is influenced greatly by Kafka and his parent’s life. Pre-World War 1 values included a superior father figure which causes Kafka to feel insignificant and also caused his depression. The depression and insignificance he felt led to Gregor 's transformation into a vermin, his passive tone and his unwillingness to help…

Unsurprisingly, there are many ways in which anthropologists have attempted to do so and have broken anthropology into four subfields; Archeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology. The father of American anthropology, Franz Boas, introduced this four-field tradition through the amassing of holistic data collection through fieldwork expeditions. Although, each field has deepened our understanding of what makes us human, Boas and his students such as…

Analysis of Gregor’s and Samsa’s New Life in “The Metamorphosis” In this story, “The Metamorphosis” By Franz Kafka, Kafka gives the reader a very strange and dramatic opening. In his first sentence, “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from his unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin” (Kafka). With this opening, Kafka grabs his reader’s attention. It makes the reader question the meaning of this statement. Is Gregor really a bug or does he just feel…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, a young man named Gregor struggles to support his lower class family of four. They reside in a small apartment clearly blocked out, centering around Gregor’s room. Everyone has access to his room, reflecting on his importance and the dependence everyone has on him. As the only breadwinner of the family, his financial earnings become the basis of their survival. His desire to set up his sister, Grete to chase her dreams as a musician, is the fuel to his drive…

“We Are The Root of Our Problems” Understanding Kafka can be complex, however, the allegorical message in many of his stories is one of trust, and specifically how animals, or in this case, a parasite, can be a premier example of our own subjectivity. Kafka consistently uses a dull tone, and does not express emotion in many of his stories including “The Metamorphosis.” One of the common themes intertwined in Kafka 's stories is the idea of one human observing another, or an animal, rather than…

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville are two shorts stories that seem hard to compare and analyze together when read once. The plots seem to have no similarities. Although Kafka and Melville may have created two completely different stories, they have many similarities though different aspects. Similarities can be found between the main characters in the two stories, the narrative point of views, the theme, and symbols. The main character in The…

In today’s society, it is hard to overcome being just a number. Within work and school, society teaches to follow the crowd and obey authority. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a novella detailing a man’s absurd transformation from human to bug. Gregor Samsa goes from being mentally dehumanized in his working life to being physically and literally dehumanized. This metamorphosis affects not only Gregor, but his entire family. His family is burdened with the maintenance of a domesticated bug…

diagnosed with, many people seek help for their psychological problems which guides them from physical and emotional suffering. Mental illness plays a huge factor in the short stories, Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, it illustrates a severe isolating role. A common symptom which ties Bartleby and Gregor together, is the theme of struggle and importance of feeling disconnect. Bartleby is separated from everyone at the office by a screen:…