Essays on Metamorphosis

In this document, a critical review of the film ‘Tetsuo: The Ironman” (1989) directed by Shiny Tsukamoto is done. The main objective of this paper is to determine the formal content, historical and political significance of the film. There is a prior focus on the issues of propaganda in cinema and stakes of political modernist art. Tetsuo is a Japanese film that is pictured on the mainstream of Japanese cinema that become dead at the end of 1980s. Japanese cinema has undergone numerous of phases. However, this document emphasizes on the creative crisis that was faced by Japanese cinema ...

The short story of Franz Kafka “A Hunger Artist” is a vibrant masterpiece of classic literature. It penetrates deeply into the readers’ minds and sets a challenge to recognize a unique grandeur and understand a great mission of this text. In his “confession” story, Franz Kafka touches upon complex and serious themes of art, death, isolation, asceticism, spiritual desolation and disharmony of human and the world. Therefore, it triggers an exceptional interest on how the readers treat and interpret the text, what thoughts, feelings and emotions come into their mind, how they perceive the main character and what they ...

If death is really real, based upon the animistic quality of our five physical senses, then how do we know that we are truly alive and breathing, not in a dream? It has been proposed that our dependence upon our five senses is extraneous at best, and totally illusory at worst. When thinking about the quote ‘existence precedes essence’ the concept lends room for credibility that Morrie was right in suggesting that the fundamental truth of human existence rests upon happiness. In Mitch Albom’s non-fictional piece, Tuesdays with Morrie, the college professor’s life, recounted during the last ...

Overview

Metamorphosis in Poetry and Speeches is a demonstration of how they evolve from one time to another. This paper will outline the same by using the works of three of the most inspirational African Americans. They include Douglas Fredrick’s 1852 speech, The Meaning of the Fourth of July; Malcolm X’s WeDidn’t Land on Plymouth Rock; and Tupac’s song (poem) “Keep Ya Head Up.” Since they occurred in different years, they help the development of this article in demonstrating the evolution of the metamorphosis in poetry and speech.

Douglas Fredrick’s The Meaning of the Fourth of July

Douglas speech was rhetoric, comprising a set of ...

In his book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche does introduce the three remarkable metamorphoses in a philosophical manner. These metamorphoses basically describe the process that we undergo during spiritual transformation, which characterize Nietzsche’s vision of a flourishing life. Perhaps we hardly think or regard Nietzsche as a great “spiritual” philosopher. Nonetheless, has put by Nietzsche, the story of the three metamorphoses is purely as spiritual transformation saga. He symbolically represents the phases of spiritual metamorphosis with the camel, the lion, and the child. A camel, in this case is used to describe and depict the scene that allows for ...

Franz Kafka wrote the short story, The Metamorphosis. The novella has been studied in different universities and colleges in the Western world. The story is about Gregor Samsa’s transformation from a human being to a monstrous creature. The Metamorphosis starts with the main character Gregor waking up only to find that he has been transformed into a huge insect-like outrageous and verminous being. As a result, he has to adjust to his new look because he does not know the reason why he was transformed and this traps his life. Gregor became a burden to his family who ...

Spider-man has become a symbol of the ultimate underdog around the world. The 12-cent comic book has helped to create an empire of Marvel comics, tv shows, movies, toys and a culture that celebrates superheroes. The writer of the comic book (Lee, 1962) was able to witness the success a lot of his superheroes, as they became symbols of hope after World War 2 and during the very height of the Cold War (O’Neil, 2016). When it comes to this one character, Spider-man, the idea of a man being transformed into an insect was not new. It can ...

Literature has the capacity to delve into varied themes and portraitures as per the perspective and vision of the literary artists. Thus, literary works can differ from one another in content and presentation only to enhance the scope and appeal of the field of art in general. As such, one can take into reckoning the short story, The Metamorphosis, penned by the stalwart literary artist, Franz Kafka that delves into the thematic content of existentialism. Again, the famous poem I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) penned by the famous Romantic poet, William Wordsworth can be taken to be ...

Life is a journey that meanders as one grows old with all the experiences. With time and understanding, people come to ascertain their respective goals in life that work as a guiding force for them. Every person should know where to reach by the end of the journey as a journey without any knowledge of the destination would be nothing but meaningless. The vision of life works as the driving force as it guides the individual to go ahead braving all the odds that come in his or her way. In my own case, I gave it quite a ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

Introduction

The appreciation for the literary craftsmanship of Franz Kafka cannot be understated. In fact, according to one journal article’s assessment by Berthoff, “Lovers of literature are forever indebted” to the writer’s friend Max Brod, “who ignored Kafka’s ‘last request’ to destroy all his manuscripts and proceeded to edit and publish” some of his novels (499). Also at the outset it is important to recognize that the original language Kafka wrote in was German, although he spoke in Czech. According to the same source Kafka’s office writings had been informed by – or at least and influencing ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

Question 1

Radioactivity is the process by which unstable isotopes of elements disintegrate in the nucleus to release energy in form of gamma rays, beta radiation and alpha radiation. The disintegration occurs as a result of the stability within the cell nucleus. Some isotopes of elements have non-balancing number of the protons as compared to the neutrons, as a result of the lack of balance between the negative and the positive charges in the nucleus; the nucleus becomes unstable and disintegrates. Radioactive radiation was first discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896 as he was working on X-ray. By then the X-ray ...

It needs to be reckoned that literature goes on to mirror the society and the culture. Innumerable examples can be cited where the authors have delved into the socio-cultural or socio-economic factors of the world around in their texts through their creative eyes. Now, after the Second World War, the literature of the world saw the responses of the creative artist catering to the needs of the post-war era that encompassed human existence with all its surmounting effect. One can take into consideration the works of the stalwart poet, T.S. Eliot, who engaged in exploring the socio-political dynamics during ...

The metamorphosis of Gregor was not his choice. We can see it in the first sentence of the book: “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin” (Kafka, 1). We can see that he was surprised by the fact that he is not a human anymore. Even though it was a long time when he stopped to feel himself as a person, not an ugly insect. He was working hard to earn money for the family that even did not appreciate his efforts. When Greta and a ...

1- Humor?

- Is the “The Metamorphosis” ever funny?  If so, where?  How?   Why?  How does the story resemble (and differ from) the family situation comedies we’re all familiar with? When “The Metamorphosis” is funny, the humor is dark and wry, the sort of joke that you grimace at instead of grinning, let alone laughing out loud. The interaction between Gregor and his family is as pained as the interaction between Chris and his family on the show “Family Guy” when Chris has acne that keeps growing and growing – and one of the zits takes out a gun and threatens ...

The idea of metamorphosis – a full or partial transformation of a person into a creature – is often met in various books and films and appeared long ago. In course of time, the notion of metamorphosis has changed and gained new meanings and forms of expression that can be traced on the examples of Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, that is dated back to the year 1915, and a quite modern film Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi. But, unfortunately, these changes and alterations in the human are not always acceptable by the society. Metamorphoses usually consist in acquiring characteristics, ...

The Great Gatsby and the Cathedral

Introduction The film the Great Gatsby is adapted from the novel by the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald' written in 1925.It tells the story of young man who strives to become wealthy so as to win the heart of a lost love. The story is based during the prohibition era where sale of alcohol had been deemed illegal. The book is named after its major character, a 30 year old man, who was able to rise from an impoverished background in North Dakota to become one of the wealthiest men. Jay Gatsby is this man whose life rose ...

Ancient Mythology

"Metamorphosis" is a poem by the Ancient Roman poet Ovid in fifteen books, which tell about various transformations that have occurred since the creation of the world, according to the Greek and Roman mythology. “Theogony”, written by Hesiod, is an earlier version of creation that describes the origin of the gods. Both stories depicts the creation of the world, however, there are significant differences, and also similarities in the approach of creation of Ovid and Hesiod. Monumental work of Ovid considered, which goes under the title "Metamorphoses", is written in characteristic for the epic poetry hexameters. In the 15 ...

Essay Proposal of “The Metamorphosis”

The novella, “The Metamorphosis,” is written by Franz Kafka. The conflict between Gregor’s body and mind makes a tremendous change in his life, as it is a second change after he becomes a cockroach. His mind has to adjust to the requirements of his new body and new life as a gigantic insect. He recognizes the limits of his new body. He starts hating milk that he likes when he is human. He gets personal feelings for his sister, feeling of guilt, and feeling sorrow when he hears his father discussing the family’s financial condition and plight.

Gregor’s transformation ...

Question1

An animal is a multi-cellular organism with cells that are not enclosed in a rigid cell wall. Animals differ from other organisms in two major aspects: 1) through the structure of their cell wall and (2) through their feeding habits. For example, unlike other organisms, such as plants, animals do not have a rigid cell wall. Plants on the other hand have a rigid cell wall. In terms of nutrition, animals are heterotrophs because of the way they synthesize organic compounds. Plants, on the other hand, are autotrophs. Plants are classified as autotrophs because they synthesize organic molecules directly using energy from ...

The short passage is evidence as to the suffering and agony that the monster, Frankenstein, experienced as a result of his loneliness and the grotesque sight that he was taken to be. Filled with anger and indignation that surged out of his painful quest for companionship, Frankenstein sought to wage vengeance on his creator, Victor Frankenstein, and make his life as painful as his own (Cobley, p 33). Surrendering to his painful fate, that of a monster, Frankenstein decides to adopt an evil nature which he was unwillingly chosen and crated for.

The theme of monstrosity is dominantly evidenced in this passage. ...

It is always the desire of each person living to have a fulfilled life where they will live free of worries and anxieties. The steps towards such accomplishments are followed by various actions including working hard in life and even being nice to people. Everybody is usually looking for a secret towards success and once it is unveiled, everything will be done to ensure they get there. However, the definition of success defers from one person to the other and the level of hard work and commitment is not always the same. In an effort to achieve what somebody else has ...

Geology is science that is concerned with the study of solid Earth, rocks and the process of metamorphosis of such rocks. Through geology one gets to understand the history of rocks, plate tectonics as well as evolutionary history of life. Such knowledge is very crucial in today’s life because it helps in exploration of minerals and exploiting the water resources.

Geology course therefore covers issues to don with Earth surface, its history, the foundation of the Earth (rocks) and metamorphosis of rocks changes over time. The course involves a series of lectures accompanied by class presentations, and field trip ...

The future of American religion is in the “none.” A recent published and publicized survey on religion depicts an undeniable trend in religious association in America. The religious landscape has many people embracing spirituality rather than a tradition religious brand. People are within their democratic right to embrace this form of religion. Some people in the survey refuse to associate with any religion as others make a transition from the traditional authoritative religions and move to “none.” The survey indicates that those respondents on the “none” affiliation do so in a liberal political spectrum. The “none” has gained popularity in the ...

The story of werewolves has been in existence since the early medieval times. The captivating change of beast to man has been a source of fascination to the masses for many years. Many audiences all over the world have been moved by this captivating phenomenon of the beasts which are also referred to as the lycanthrope (Bennett, 2014). These animals have been featured in ancient literature with the stories being transmitted through oral traditional mythical stories, story books and other forms of art. The transformation is mainly associated with a full moon and is primarily as a result of sorcery, magic or a ...

Introduction

Evolution is the change animals and species undergo over time to adapt to certain environmental changes and eventually produce multiple descendent species. Evolution and natural selection are often taken as complimentary to each other. However, evolution, by definition, is a historical process of change, while natural selection is merely a mechanism that results in this change. Advances in technology and biology has thrown light on several causes and consequences of evolution. Some of the deepest understandings of evolution come from understanding fossils and examining phylogeny and from the study of natural selection. Evidences suggest that when natural selection is strong, the rate ...

Value of Community: Gregor’s Father vs. Van Helsing

Dracula was a Gothic horror novel that was written by an Irish writer named Bram Stoker. In the novel, Van Helsing is portrayed as a monster who had a desire to hunt for evil. It is believe that Van Helsing was becoming an ultimate threat to humans. But in the novel, The Metamorphosis that was written by Franz Kafka, there was a character named Mr. Samsa. Mr. Samsa was Gregor’s father, who is portrayed as a father who did not care about anything. When his son turned into a monster, it had no impact at all on him. The only thing that bothered him ...

Why Kafka Wrote the Story

Kafka wrote the story to explore the chaotic nature of the universe. The term “metamorphosis” centers on absurd, wild, and irrational nature of the world inhabited by human beings. For instance, Gregor turns into a giant insect. There is no physical and natural occurrence to explain his metamorphosis. Kafka wrote the story to show that the world does not explain the things that happen around us. They just happen.

The Concept of Human Nature

In the text, human nature happens to exhibit close connection and social ties between individuals in the universe. The ties happen through structures such as families. When Gregor changes into a giant ...

The primary theme here would be the overgrowth of cities that was characterized by lack of will to achieve balance and harmony. This led to a complete destruction of life and civilization by a variety of internal factors stemming from increasing populations, deteriorating housing conditions, and poor town planning towards the end of the empire. (Mumford) Here, the author lays a convincing argument to back his theme, starting from the Rise of Rome to its decay and disintegration with proper illustrations. The second theme is the manner in which transformations of cities occur as illustrated. Mumford says that cities don’t ...

Represents the End of History

In his article titled “The End of History”, the author, Francis Fukuyama (UAF, 2013, p.1) seeks to prove that the liberal democracy that Western Nations advocate for sounds the death knell for sound and divergent political ideology that forms the world history. Subsequently, Fukayama (UAF, 2013, p.2) argues that the net effect of the advent of the Western liberalism ideology will result in the “end of history”. Tharoor (2012) describes Fukuyama as a “distinguished political philosopher and intellectual”. In his argument, Fukayama (p.2) seeks to cement the fact that Western ideology has seen systematic acceptance and success in many ...

Franz Kafka is the author of the famous anthology, The Metamorphosis. He was born in 1883, in Prague which is Czech Republic’s capital. He was brought up in a moderate Jewish family. After pursuing law in the University of Prague, he secured a job in the insurance field and wrote during the evenings. He later moved to Berlin in 1923 to carry on with his writing. However, he developed tuberculosis and died afterwards. He was the only son in a family that included three daughters since his two brothers died during infancy. He never had a smooth relationship with his mother because ...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a short story about a man who turns into a vermin. His family, the Samsas, instead of trying to help him, treats him cruelly and ostracizes him because of his uselessness and appearance. Kafka shows a dysfunctional family that exploits Gregor for its economic stability. The paper will try to analyze the text using the tenets of existentialism and how Kafka used them to portray Gregor and his society. Gregor Samsas, the protagonist of the story is a travelling salesman, who wakes up in his bed to find that he has metamorphosized into a large insect. He is ...

Metamorphosis is a book that takes us through various changes happening in the family. The biggest is however that of Gregg turning into an insect. This can be considered fiction as it is beyond possibility that a human can abruptly transform into an insect. The story however has a lot of symbolism of some of the unexpected changes that can transform a person’s life. Life is in itself is unpredictable and hence requiring that a person lives a day at a time. Some of the things we put so much hope in may become meaningless as they prove to be a passing wind. Some of the ...

One of the most complicated questions to answer in human behaviour is how a person becomes who he or she is. In this context, the main problem is in identifying the difference between inborn inclinations of an individual and subsequent influence of the surrounding environment of living. From one point scientists argue that the answer to who we are is in our genes and DNA chains, and we cannot go beyond what our DNA has programmed us to be capable of. From another point of view, we are what are made by totality of factors. Among these factors are our ...

Many authors have written significant and fascinating works about people in isolation; this isolation is often used to showcase their alienation from society (and subsequent subjugation). In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her sequestering herself away from the rest of the world, diving into inaction. She experiences both tremendous psychotic episodes and incredible feministic tendencies and desires, echoing the frustrations that women in the 19th century had given their restricted autonomy and the forcefulness of their husbands. Meanwhile, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis tells the horrific ...

CLASSIC ENGLISH LITERATURE

Classic English literature The twentieth century ushered an era of myriad changes in the life of humanity. The spread of the industrial revolution boosted by technological advancements had phenomenal impacts on the social, economic, and political life in Europe, and the world. However, its impact on society is inevitable. During this period, modernization set the pace of transformation of society into a new form of civilization characterized by urbanization and high levels of technological development. Scholars in various fields recorded this happening, and their debates rage on as society incessantly undergoes astonishing changes. Europe is appreciated for the ...

Franz Kafka, in his novel The Metamorphosis writes about a travelling salesman called Gregor Samsa. He one day wakes up to find himself transformed into a huge bug to the surprise of not only himself but also his family and everyone living around him. The novel is primarily about the thoughts, actions and feelings of Gregor in regards to his environment (Bloom 64). Environment and all that happens around a person therefore play a crucial role in shaping up or influencing a person both in thought and in action just as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put it in his writings, The Communist manifesto. ...

Analysis of Volar by Judith Ortiz Coffer

Introduction Volar embodies a story of freedom from the confinements of human life. The author of the nonfiction story narrates of a life imagined in a dream where she was able to live life devoid of the inhibitions brought about by living life as a human being. Throughout the story, various aspects of the language and emotion employed in narrating the story helps the readers steal glances and sneak previews into the author’s desired life. In the analysis of the tone in the story, the paper will highlight the different ways that the personality of the author manifests in the story ...

Introduction

Women have been displayed in fiction novels to have influential characters that change the course of the narrative. Even when they are not the protagonist, the role they play gives them the ability to give the story a new meaning and even change the original perception that people had in predicting how the story will end. In this discussion, we shall be looking at the role of female characters as we focus on three books, chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia, Bluest eye by Toni Morrison and Metamorphosis by Franz kafka. In the chronicle of death foretold, the ...

Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis no so long after he had finished writing The Judgment. It must be noted that the two stories have a lot in common. After reading The Metamorphosis if a look is taken into the biographical and historical context of Kafka, it can be argued that this story that the author published in 1912 expresses not only his own sense of self-alienation but other various other aspects of his life. Like Kafka, the main character of the novel, Gregor Samsa is a German Jew living in seriously anti-Semitic times. Samsa’s metamorphosis into an abominable insect can be ...

The creative world or the world of one's fantasies is inevitable connected with its author - the person that creates it, on whose experiences and personal perceptions it is based on. In this context, creation of everything requires the presence of the author, and it depicts part of the author's personality within the creation itself. Thus, it can be argued that personality of the author is present in all of his creations. On the other hand, some works are more descriptive of author's perception than others. This phenomenon can be explained either by the degree of author's participation in ...

Classic English literature

This novella by Kafka appeared in 1915 just before the onset of the First World War. It falls under the broad genres of psychological fiction and allegory. Several instances of symbols that cascaded the plot justify this stance. The following themes are evident in the whole plot discovery. Mythology appears imminent which appears in the form of fantasy and illusions. Betrayal and guilt also reign among other eccentric allures of realism and punishment. Czechoslovakia appears to be the hegemonic place horizons that appear in the literary text. Metamorphosis is a complex terminology that depicts a change that is conspicuous and empirical. ...

Q 1. What contribution does the concept "multiple constituency" make to our understanding of organizational effectiveness? In particular, does the concept make it easier or harder for a manager to know when she has accomplished effective performance for her group or organization? Explain. The “multiple constituency” approach to organizational effectiveness determines the various constituencies that exist in a particular organization, then, analyses the effectiveness of each constituency and then, evaluates the consequence of these effectiveness assessments. In the words of Tsui, “while several variants of the MC model exist, the central tenet across all the variants is that an organization ...

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is considered one of the greatest pieces of absurdist horror fiction in the 20th century, telling a horrific tale of dehumanization and philosophical malaise. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, suddenly finds himself having turned into a bug-like creature, the very nature of his self having been irrevocably altered. Of course, one of the most horrific aspects of the story itself is not the bug he becomes, but the setting he inhabits. The setting of the Metamorphosis, Samsa's room in his home, becomes symbolic for his deep and significant ennui about his own life and his feelings of entrapment.

The ...

2001: A Space Odyssey is a Stanley Kubrick movie that came out in 1968. The movie is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction movies of all times. The movie is much more than just science fiction story with breathtaking visuals (for its time) and action sequences that are now so commonly associated with such cinema. Since its release, 2001 has been a subject for forum discussion of many thinkers and philosophers, talking about the hidden meaning and message imparted by the movie. Kubrick had also famously said “You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and ...

The basic unit in the society has undergone many transformations over the decades to be what we can see today. The societal way of doing things continually portrays these changes, which today have gained acceptance as the basic rules for the basic unit. The entertainment sector has become one of the leading channels for reflecting and communicating these changes. For this reason, in order to understand the family setup of the old days, a trip down the memory lane is important and in this case, the article pays attention to earlier TV shows and compares them with current shows to ...

Introduction

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a great novel which describes the way a human being is transformed into a gigantic insect very much in the manner of an actual vegetative state. One has to observe several factors in this transformation which can be linked to the way political activity becomes an intrinsic part of everyone’s lives Gregor’s transformation into a vegetative state is an essential part of the novel. The surrealism of it all appears to be intrinsically bound into everything and the novel really has aspects of it which show that it is rather disturbing in that sense. The ...