Franz von Holzhausen

The life Gregor leads prior to the events of “The Metamorphosis” is an excellent example of the influence the system of institutionalism holds over society. The story illustrates the stronghold institutionalism has over the minds and bodies of people, relegating them to different roles and parts in a much larger scheme. Eventually these roles become an individual’s identity, alienating said individual from his or her humanity in order to fully integrate themselves with the roles they play,…

Goodbye to Forty Eight Street The purpose of writing this essay is to show how everyone moves eventually, but always leaves a part of them at their old home. In this passage White is packing his possessions away into boxes getting ready to move. He knows he is not capable of bringing all his possessions with him so he has to decide what to get rid of. It is hard for him to decide what to get rid of because he has grown a connection to them. When moving away he misses his home and possessions…

Sergei’s Three Wishes Sergei’s three wishes reveal a way in which his character was consistent. Firstly, Sergei liked to help people just not random people. From the passage page seven, “That first wish, Sergei used up when they discovered a cancer in his sister. A lung cancer, the kind you don’t get better from. The fish undid it in an instant.” In this quote, Sergei explains how his sister has severe lung cancer, and how she might die. He uses his first wish to save his sister from cancer.…

Bank transactions, social media, and medical release forms, are just a few examples of privacy matters encountered daily, but what definition does privacy hold in today’s society? In Professor Daniel J. Solove’s essay, “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’,” he debates that privacy issues affect more than individuals with something to hide. Professor Solove describes how an insufficient definition of privacy allows for an interpretation of its meaning. Privacy, However, cannot…

Society is the purveyor of indelible, influential people and experiences that have the ability to shape the human race in a magnanimous or deleterious fashion. Since people are the inspiration for experiences, peoples’ effects on society needs to be delineated. There are many classes of people in a society. There are not only passive and active people, but also pacifists and activists. The pacifists are the quiet peacemakers of the society that try to discourage violence. Unfortunately,…

Gregor Samsa’s life, the main protagonist, in The Metamorphosis mirrors the author Franz Kafka’s life, revealing the modern reality of alienation and suffering, which they both feel cannot be controlled. These two men struggle with companionship, and as a result suffer immensely. The lives of Gregor Samsa and Franz Kafka are unique and not ideal. Their occupations distance themselves from the world; Gregor is a traveling salesmen, and Kafka was a writer and was also interested in law. To add to…

The story "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka opens with the realization that the main character, Gregor Samsa, has awoken as a giant bug. The reader is introduced to this extreme metamorphosis right from the start. However, does the title "The Metamorphosis" really refer to this blatant and quite literal change, or does it refer to something less obvious and more subtle? After reading into the story deeper the reader is often left wondering, "To what does the title 'The Metamorphosis ' really…

In the novel The Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka it can be said that the wretched and lonesome life of Kafka influenced and shaped the novella into what it results to be. Kafka shares “The [Metamorphosis] revels the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life” (Kafka to Gustav Janouch 108). The horrors of Kafka’s life are spilled out into the metamorphosis though his character Gregor Samsa. Both his character Gregor and Kafka himself withstand many hardships in this…

Franz Kafka was a tortured soul, he was a very lonely man and had no confidence in his writing. It took other people to encourage him to release his work to the public. He also was a writer that didn’t finish stories, because he felt that they were bad and not worthy of being read. Although Kafka had a hard and difficult life, it allowed him to write true and honest stories about the human condition. Throughout Kafka’s writing we see that he is curious about relationships with people. Kafka is…

The story Bartleby by Herman Melville shows the reader a crazy, but possible outcome for a person who has reached a dead end in life. In this case, Bartleby is the character that self-destructs, while the narrator or his supervisor witnesses it and struggles to resolve the issue. The narrator feels confused and repulsed by Bartleby’s unmotivated attitude towards his work, but later in the story changes his tone to a more charitable and understanding one. For example after many attempts of…