One of the greatest mistakes a man can make is allowing his situation to define him, rather than vice versa. In his most famous short story, “The Metamorphosis”, Franz Kafka tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a young businessman who awakes one morning to find himself transformed into a verwandlung, or insect, one of monstrous proportions. Gregor’s quest for resolution highlights the work’s underlying existentialist philosophy. It is, however, his failure to find it that gives the story its depth
Panagakos English 102 “The Metamorphosis” is a story about a man who wakes up transformed into a giant insect and the effects his transformation has on his daily life. “District 9” is about a man that is rejected from human society and is hunted by various groups due to his alien properties. Although these two stories reflect different places and time periods and seem like different stories, they actually are very similar to each other. The characters from “The Metamorphosis” and “District 9” can be
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange