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March 06, 2002
Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a dung beetle. Gregor the sole breadwinner in the family (with dreams of sending his young sister Grete to music school) is now the one who needs to be supported. Gregor's handicap polarizes the family. Gregor's father returns from retirement and his siter starts working. Eventually Gregor is no longer appreciated by his family. Gregor dies. His family now look to his sister as the new hope for the family.
The Metamorphosis in full and in summary
Franz Kafka's work has been seized by camps across the spectrum of human thought as representative of their school of thought. Surrealists obviously delight in Kafka's phantasmagoria. Existentialists expound that Kafka's characters represent the essential existentialists. What do I think? I think Kafka suffered from a constant fear of not living up to his parents' expectations.
Posted at March 6, 2002 11:25 AM