Essays on Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka focuses on how important it is for an artist to obtain public appeal and the levels that he is willing to go to acquire the attention. The hunger artist is a vivid representation of the troubled relationship that other artists have with a society that does not understand them well. In the end, the hunger artist separates himself from the entire world mirroring a separation between public will and the artistic ego. Only, an artist comprehends the essence of his accomplishments and ambitions. The public just comes in for the excitement or prospects of a good show. ...

The novel "The Trial", written by Franz Kafka, analyzes the classic problem of the modern society - the confrontation between man and bureaucratic system. The novel tells the story about Josef K. who is arrested in the morning of his 30th anniversary without being told the reason for arrest. However, Josef continues to live his life as he does it before because the organization that has arrested him is not afraid of his abscondence. He is invited to the court, is visited at home and at workplace, is pursued by servants of justice. All this time he is trying ...

Many literary critics and scholars consider Franz Kafka to be a troubled man. His writing is drenched in depression, oppressions and violence. It creates a sense of helplessness and accepting the miseries of life, as fighting them is futile. However, it extremely difficult to label the novelist in absolute terms. Perhaps it is more accurate to consider Kafka a mystery instead of a sad hermit. Kafka was not creating fiction to sell books. In fact he remained almost an unknown author during his lifetime. On his death bead he told his friend to destroy his stories as he did ...

People are so absorbed with the peculiarity of the unknown in that some people strive to become artists specializing in these trades just to become famous. Franz Kafka, in his short story, A Hunger Artist, successfully satirizes the cycle of people’s waning curiosity and interest in the mundane and the subsequent artists who do these things for fame. Kafka’s story shows a critical ridicule of this cycle in an act contradictory to the purpose of a way of living through the hunger artist and his act of fasting. The intention of distinguishing oneself from his peers has ...

As notions of “self-care,” (that is, of prioritizing one’s personal health) become increasingly common, the challenge of mental illness remains stigmatized if not least because it is generally invisible. Both in life and in literature, we can often glean understanding not only from what can be observed in narrative, but also through its gaps and disjunctions. In the case of Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist,” the protagonist’s extended fasting is not a direct concern of mental illness, but one of spectacle with his audience “marveling at him as he sat there pallid in black tights, with his ...

If death is really true, based upon the animistic quality of our five physical senses, then how do we know that we are truly alive and breathing and not in a dream? It has been proposed that people who are aware of the existence of their surroundings mostly rely on their five senses, which may cause illusions. The ethereal yet grounded theory of existentialism provides the landscape for a more positively-identified pathway which reaches across the separation that exists among humans.            When thinking about the quote ‘existence precedes essence’, the concept lends room for credibility that Morrie was right ...

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 ...

1. Why Hedda Gabler and not Hedda Tesman? Hedda belongs to the bourgeois class of her society. Using Hedda Gabler instead of Hedda Tesman is meant to show the audience how Ibsen's main protagonist prefers to identify herself. Hedda is the daughter of a general who ends up marrying into a lower class thereby lowering her social status. However, she still wants to identify herself as an aristocrat. People in Hedda's society enjoy privileges according to their social status. Belonging to the bourgeois class means that she does not enjoy as many benefits as she would enjoy under the ...

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 ...

“The Hunger Artist” is a short story that was written by Franz Kafka that was initially published in 1922. The main character of the story is a hunger artist who remains faithful to his craft and who fears that the people who watch him completely misunderstand him. There is the insight that crowds used to appreciate this kind of “performance”, but that during this time, people refuse to believe in such anymore. One might say that the main idea of this short story is the alienation of many artists from society. The artist has a very troubled relationship with ...

1- "My World of the Unknown"--background

- What sorts of background information might (Western) readers need to make sense of Rifaat's story? Some helpful background information might include some scaffolding about the role of the snake in different mythologies as well as its role in the culture under study. While many cultures view the snake as a source of temptation, it is fairly clear that the snake here is a positive sign, as the sheikh calls its appearance a blessing and the snake spirit has the only fulfilling relationship with the woman that she has ever found – no wonder Aneesa didn’t want to leave! ...

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 ...

12 Book Descriptors 12 Book Descriptors

Penned by the feminist author of America, Kate Chopin, the novel is one of the very first works of literature that points to the challenges faced by women in the American society. This naturalist work stirs readers with its narrative.

A Doll’s House, Henrik Isben (40 words)

Henrik Isben’s most famous play, A Doll’s house, leaves a mark on the audience or readers with the engaging narrative that shows the gradual transformation of Nora. The play reflects the oppressive nature of marriage and speaks for gender equality.

Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley. (40 words)

This sci-fi novel is immortalized in the pages of literary history ...

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, ...

First of all, it should be stated that Oxford Learner`s Dictionaries web-site suggests the following definitions for the word “process”: The flow, course, progress of a phenomenon. The set of sequential actions, aimed at achieving a certain result.

The active development of a disease.

The procedure of trial in a court and administrative proceedings. At the first glance, the third meaning of the word, namely “the trial”, seems to be more in line with the content of the novel. However, there are two more meanings, and if you think well, you will find even more. Moreover, at the last page of his novel, ...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Research Paper Introduction Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) has been an interest to numerous experts for decades. In the past, BDD is called 'dermatological hypochondriasis' and 'dysmorphophobia' (Wilhelm & Phillips, 2012, 3). However, experts became dissatisfied with such mere renaming of the disorder, and so they decided to give it a full and clear definition. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), BDD is an obsession with a perceived deformity in one's appearance, or if the individual really has a minor physical defect, the burden and effect on the person is enormous (Wilhem & Phillips, 2012). This excessive ...

There can be no denial of the fact that literature has always been the mirror of the world society. The creative artists have always delved into the intricacies and subtleties of human life and existence so as to portray them in the literary works. The quintessence of portrayal and the aesthetic as well as affective appeal go on to leave a lasting mark in the hearts of the readers who can only revel at the sheer genius of the creative works. Now, one can very well take into reckoning the works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Franz Kafka, and ...

Austrian writer Franz Kafka came in the German-language literature in the 20th century and became one of the most famous writers of his age, one of the most recognized literary innovators. Like all his generation, which has entered into the literature on the eve of the First World War and the subsequent revolutionary upheavals in Russia and Germany, Franz Kafka was living with the constant feeling of deep hostility of soulless, mechanical and bureaucratized world to man, to human nature. All of Franz Kafka's prose can be called a great essay about fear, about the state of the lonely ...

Bartleby and Gregor Samsa are outcasts but in different ways because they cannot deal with th societies they belong to. The alienate themselves from the role which they are supposed to play. It becomes too much for them to hande which is why they give up on participating in life. There are both similarities and differences between the ways they cope with the pathology that affected their lives and they cannot put up with what they are unable to change. Both Bartleby and Gregor change themselves because they cannot change the society. Bartleby alienates himself from the world, while ...

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Comparison Contrast Essay

A Comparative Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” There are both similarities and differences between the short stories A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and A Hunger Artist, but it is certain that these two stories can be compared on several levels. Every man deserves to be treated with respect in spite of being different than most people. Both of the stories have the main characters who do not fit in the society, who are different and deserve to be accepted for who ...

Franz Kafka is a famous German-language writer, who is widely admitted as one of the major figures of the twentieth-century world literature. He is famous for his novels and short stories focused on the themes of drama and isolation, opposition of a man and society that could not accept him. During his rather short life, Kafka wrote a number of works, which met with recognition from the public only after his death. One of such works was A Hunger Artist, a story he wrote in his declining years in 1922. The aim of this paper is to analyze symbolism ...

One of the prominent stories written in the style of expressionism is a novel of Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis”. The story embodies all the outstanding features of this modern trend in the world literature. The author does not try to point out the vices of the society but gives us the hints hiding them in grotesque and exaltation. "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy describes similar changes of an ordinary man. But, unlike the novel of Franz Kafka, this literary work does not exaggerate the state of a person by transforming him into an insect-like creature. The ...

Responsibility in Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Kafka’s Metamorphosis deals with a lot of issues concerning the modern society. It can be read as a rebellion of the protagonist against the conventions of society or the dehumanizing nature of everyday work. Although Kafka also tackles issues of isolation and inferiority the theme of responsibility too is a main thread that runs throughout his work. Gregor, the protagonist is the responsible son and brother providing for the family, but when he ceases to be responsible and gives in to his disillusionment, his family fail to take the responsibility of looking after him. Responsibility (towards other people) ...

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 ...

The world of literature has always intrigued one and all with the sheer quintessence of art and aesthetics. The readers from all the corners of the globe have been immersed in the aesthetic charm and affective appeal of the literary works of the literary artists who have proved their genius though their unparalleled portraiture and content that have left an immortal mark in the very innermost core of thee hearts of the avid readers. The history of literature goes on to document the works of many such stalwarts who have left the readers stirred to the core. James Joyce ...

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka has generated serious debate on the importance of justice and the deeper meanings in the story. Revolving around an explorer who has come to assess the “apparatus” or the executive tool in the penal colony, the tale is of extreme condemnation and violence of inhumanity. However, going into the depth of the story may lead the reader to believe that the author has provided a setting which was devoid of the concept of justice in humanity. This can further be understood by the references made to the Old Commandment which may be ...

Paraphilia is a psychiatric problem that is typified by insidious pattern of abnormal as well as impaired sexual imaginations or behaviors or probably both. Apart from being psychological, Paraphilia is a legal as well as social issue and has been emerged as a concern before the society. This paper intends to discuss paraphilia, its causes and solutions along with discussing other related aspects.

More than a dozen kinds of Paraphilia have been recognized by the psychologists and doctors and some of them are- Abasiophilia, Algolagnia, Acrotomophilia, Agalmatophilia, Anililagnia, Andromimetophilia, Autoandrophilia, Raptophilia, Somnophilia, Transvestophilia, Sophophilia and Salirophilia. Causes of paraphilia differ according to type ...

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 ...

Introduction

Over the years, the analysis and critique of works of literature has adopted different dimensions. In simple terms, critics of literature works have adopted different approaches when it comes to analyzing and understanding these works. Some have chosen to explore individual elements within the work to detect a piece of literature is a classic or whether is poorly articulated. This has therefore resulted in varying opinions among different critics about the nature of certain literature pieces due to the lack of a standard approach or model of understanding literature. However, Vladimir Nabokov in his book “Good Readers and Good Writers” presents a unique ...

“There is reason that all things are as they are” (Stoker). In the written works of Dracula and The Metamorphosis, the authors use two very different styles to portray horrifying fantasy. In Dracula, Bram Stoker uses realism in the form of journal entries, letters, ships’ logs, and newspaper articles to tell the story of the vampire Count Dracula. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses surrealism in the form of third person narrative, to tell the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes one day to find he has been transformed overnight into a huge, disgusting bug. Although the authors employ different ...

In the final discussion on the use of animalization in the literary classics will be on “Madness and Civilization” written by Michael Foucault. The piece is another poignant example, along with “Diary of a Madmen” and “The Metamorphosis,” of how writers have used the historical comparison of animalization in regard to mentally troubled individuals. I will compare and contrast how Foucault uses the concept of animalization in his writing compared to the writer of the other two stories. Foucault’s story differs greatly from the previous authors, as it takes the reader on a type of journey through the changes in ...

English

A Comparison of Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” to Kafka’s “The Castle” How does one define an adult? The simplest way to answer this is to oppose the concept of adulthood to that of childhood. So an adult is someone who has stopped being a child. But, in this regard, another completely justified question arises – how does one define a child? It seems simple enough from all standpoints: a child is an immature person, meaning he is yet to reach maturity due to his age. Therefore, the difference between a child and an adult is greatly dependent upon the definition of ...

There are numerous schools of thought as to the role of religion in the Northern Ireland conflict. Institutionally, religion has different levels in the indirect contribution of the Roman Catholic Church and the direct one of the Orange societies. Other levels include the covenant tradition of fundamentalist Protestantism, the level of relational beliefs, level of cultures produced, and the interface between relational religious and national-political beliefs. The way religion connects to politics and conflicts is different for the each of the two dominant blocs of interest. The role of the Catholic Church takes into account. Majority of the past ...

Existentialism is a movement in both philosophy and literature that highlights the importance of individual freedom and choices. According to the philosophy of existentialism, some events or occurrences that happen with a person are irrational or absurd having no explanation for that. They believe that there are no universal guidelines to follow as well as there is no objective form of truth. Therefore, existentialism is based on one’s choices, decisions that are unique and unchangeable. The philosophers of existentialism argue that human choice is a subjective matter, because individuals are supposed to make choices without external influence of societal standards (ethical ...

English

In the story “A Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka, it depicts a waking from a dream. the piece is a short story that uses different aspects of a dream, as interpretation of the circumstances that surround a doctor’s life. It shows his helplessness in his situation and outlines the fact that he is unable, or unwilling to change it. He was afraid of being exposed to the villagers and have his competency questioned. Based on his dream, cold, naked and confused, he is a picture of confusion and incompetence. The doctor is secretly having passionate thoughts about his servant girl, who worked with him ...

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 Hunger artist in Franz Kafka’s short story “The Hunger Artist” on the surface suffers from pangs of hunger from not eating. But his real suffering is deeper, and it is the cause of him being a hunger artist in the first place. The protagonist’s worldview is of his own making, and because of it his is unable to adjust to the normal world and instead is trapped in both a mental and physical cage. The hunger artist at times cares about what the onlookers of his art think, and at other times he seems greatly concerned about ...

Introduction

Since its inception some twenty thousand years ago, human civilization has grown enormously and has spread all over the entire globe in past few centuries. The vastness of human civilization is managed through institutions – the institutions of education, state, law, religion, family, marriage etc. These institutions are all interrelated. Stability and order in the society are primary purposes of these institutions. The functioning of all these institutions is based on certain principles and the central to these principles is the principle of infinite value of human life. Killing of a human life stands in opposition to the principle of infinite ...

THE TRAMP VERSUS JOSEPH K.

The protagonist in Charlie Chaplin’s tramp is known more famously as the tramp. The protagonist in Kafka’s the trial is known as joseph k. Being protagonists these two characters have a lot in common. There are certain tributes and clichés attributed to protagonists in almost all literary works. These characteristics and attributes are meant to make the protagonist easily identifiable by the audience. These characteristics are also meant to endear the protagonist to the audience. Despite being both protagonists joseph k and the tramp are very different in terms of their characteristics and individual traits. The following ...

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 ...

Write a paper discussing the relationship between these arguments and at least two or more of the arguments presented in your text: Death sentence is simply, a lawful killing inflicted upon the criminals/convicts. The capital punishment, in the form of death penalty, is an age-old phenomenon and has been in vogue in America since 1608. Prescription of death sentence is evidenced in the Bible for the crimes like murder, kidnapping, witchcrafting and other heinous acts. Incidentally, the death penalty exits in military and federal crimes of spying, espionage etc. Principally death as a capital punishment is awarded to murder and ...

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 ...

Psychology

Sexuality in the Movies: No Strings Attached (2011)

Introduction

Sexual behavior raises several questions about a person’s personality. Every person may express similarities or variation of sexual behaviors depending on their personal preferences and that of their partner. Sexuality encompasses a particular behavior. However, sexual behaviors are nevertheless highly influenced by factors such as the mainstream media. In this regard, sexuality in the media will be discussed to explore the portrayal of sexuality and analyze the actions depicted by the characters in the movie. For this discussion, the 2011 movie entitled “ No Strings Attached” will be the subject of analysis determining ...

Exhibiting an understanding of "Slipstream" literature as part of this course requires using three particular stories incorporating subjective selections from the three pieces exemplifying the thesis as follows. These three stories include Jeffrey Ford's "Bright Morning", Benjamin Rosenbloom's "Biographical Notes to a Discourse 'On the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes'", and Howard Waldrop's "The Lions Are Asleep This Night". The following discourse explores and defines a personal and subjective understanding of Slipstream as literature asking the reader to look at the world in a strangely different and often possibly legitimate manner through the eyes of the authors - whether the reader agrees ...

Introduction

The hunger artist by Franz Kafka was first published in 1924. The hunger artist expresses the feeling of loss of identity, pervasiveness, guilt and the sense of evil that permeates the sense of ruling powers. It also expresses the unease that Kafka went through during his lifetime. Kafka’s Prague was a civilized cosmopolitan city in Europe but very hostile to Jews. As a Jew in Prague, he distrusts the authority (Kafka 1952). Kafka was segregated from the mainstream society and lived in a ghetto. The hunger artist symbolizes the sufferings that Germans were going through under the reign of Adolf Hitler. ...

A comparison between two ‘black sheep’

A Hunger Artist and Bartleby 2 Abstract There are certain people with strange behaviors that are usually out of conception for others in their vicinity. There are two short stories- A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville which depict the stories of two peculiar characters. Both were stuck with something painful or strange in their lives and refused completely to behave normally or in any compliance with the society. Both the characters had their reasons. And hence, no one could try reasoning with them successfully. This short essay illuminates the comparison ...

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. ...

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 ...