At the dawn of the 20th Century a few very brilliant minds were hard at work defining and crafting an entirely new genre of literature, one that looked beyond the realities of our lives and took into accounts the works of up and coming philosophers of the time. Writers like Kafka and later Borges developed ...
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” Karl Marx says in his Communist Manifesto (34). Money talks. Everything else can be put aside, the simple and unfortunate truth is that money talks. The common man will always be looking for a way out of his downtrodden or disadvantaged state. ...
Modern Jewish history has been shaped by many promising thinkers, philosophers, scientists, and literary critics and each one had an important role. Let’s begin with Mordecai Kaplan who was a prominent Jewish philosopher. He was the modern day father of the Reconstructionist movement. He had been a conservative rabbi and argued that Judaism was a ...
Gregor’s sudden transformation into an insect in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis shows how materialistic concerns dehumanize the lower middle class. The main character of the novella, Gregor, is a young man who works at an office where he is treated horribly by his boss who at one point sends a man to Gregor’s house to scold ...
The theme of power and subordination in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is most notable in the shift that occurs between Gregor and his family after Gregor transforms into a giant insect. Prior to his transformation, Gregor played the role as the sole earner for his family. Money is directly related to power in this story ...
Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is about the evolution of a family due to the metamorphosis of that family’s son from human to vermin. The son, Gregor Samsa, awakens one morning to find himself transformed. He is a bug, with limited mobility and limited ability to communicate. Prior to this metamorphosis, Gregor is the source of ...
Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis is a classic in the genre of experimental symbolic fiction that arose in the early 20th century. Following hard upon Karl Marx’s theories of worker alienation, the protagonist of the story, Gregor Samsa, is the personification of the deadening of the soul amidst the rise of the industrial revolution. The ...