The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

recollection of reading. This is because it was the first book that grasped my interest and I fully understood the characters, the plot, and the main idea of the story. I was able to make connections with the characters because they dealt with similar things that as a new middle school student I was dealing with as well. For example, in the story Star Girl, the main character is starting a new school, so she’s trying to fit in by making new friends and joining some extracurricular activities.…

Effects of loneliness and isolation in the short stories “Metamorphosis” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” In Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the…

The fictional worlds of Franz Kafka’s Before the Law and Jorge Luis Borges’ The Lottery are built upon complex and expanding laws of chance that evolve to encompass the lives of the people who live themre. In both stories, a dichotomy is established between those in possession of the law, and those who are ruled below with very little comprehension of the laws that guide them. Though it would seem at first glance that the nobility and rulers benefit the most from these confusing and unjust…

that ends up not only pushing him away from his family, but also strips him of his humanity and the life he could have had. Franz Kafka takes us through the story of a man who is no longer a man. He has gained the mindset of a worker ant, which is to accomplish what he believes needs to be done until the day he dies. The first line we hear from the main character in our story is “Good Lord, what an exhausting profession I’ve chosen. Day in and day out on the road. Work like this is far more…

The anti hero is a figure who has featured in multiple works across the centuries. In every novel and story, the figure of the anti-hero straddles an interesting middle ground between the hero and the villain. The anti hero can be recognized by their unique characteristics, which are somewhere between good and evil. This paper will set out the definition for the anti hero through the Metamorphosis and Paradise Lost, and then use this definition to justify classifying characters from Watchmen as…

processing a picture. This inability to comprehend self in a removed manner is why people strive for a more complete understanding. “Mirrorings” by Lucy Grealy is a piece that examines perception of self, in the context of living with a disfigured face. The effect that this physical deformity has on Grealy’s life is profound, and deeply personal. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is another story that deals with the perception of reality. In the book, the main character Gregor Samsa is suddenly…

French was the language of worldly education and literature in Britain. The language of the Church, however, was Latin, so a big part of learning also took place in Latin. An international figure of the medieval period was king Arthur, about whom stories were written in Celtic, Latin, French,…

say “The word ‘precursor’ is indispensable in the vocabulary of criticism, but one should try to purify it from every connotation of polemic or rivalry” (109). His vision of literary tradition is astute.By the inveterate tool of allusion, Borges’s stories examine the possibility that the literary question of one’s relationship to one’s successors runs parallel to the philosophical question of one’s personal identity. To Borges, not only one’s writing but one’s own identity is contingent upon the…