Essays on Kafka

From the word go, the main character Gregor is given a proletarian role where he is made the sole breadwinner of the family, trifling to beat the debt his family owed (Minute Book Report, 2013). He worked as a clerk at a local firm and...

It has been proven that sometimes imagination can be worse than reality. In the novella, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the main character, Gregor Samsa, experiences a metamorphosis, changing him from a human, to a giant insect. Working as a salesman before his transformation, led...

The empathic civilization is a complete turn-around to the definition of animal treatment in modern human communities. Yes, animals think and feel too, deserve respect, liberty, emotional attachment, and remorse whenever necessary. In this modern era the behavior of humans to animals has taken a...

I had studied two texts, which is “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka and “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen. Many writers’ works have their own characteristics, which some are better than others. These writers included Franz Kafka and Henrik Ibsen. Their work expresses the elements...

The Metamorphosis is a novel published by Franz Kafka in 1915. Kafka is the founder of modernist literature, and metamorphosis is one of his representative works. In The Metamorphosis Kafka describes the clerk Gregor Sam suddenly becomes a insect then his family begin to hate...

For thousands of years, the Jewish people were kicked around and persecuted for their beliefs; constantly ordered and expelled out of kingdoms, forced to convert to Catholicism, and had their land conquered or face execution. Alienated wherever they went; made into scapegoats so that people...

What is it about some novels that captivate and capture our attention? Why do they continue to enthrall and beguile us despite it being decades after their publication date? There are original stories that are fundamental to our society. Some have acquired the attention of...