Intriguing ideas about The Metamorphosis
November 16th, 2009
What do you think about these ideas about The Metamorphosis?
http://www.kafka.org/index.php?id=203,249,0,0,1,0
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I can’t talk about every issue that the writer of the essay brings up, but he definately does a thorough job getting at just about every aspect of Kafka’s short story. What I got was that we can rarely take Kafka’s words for what they are. He always seems to have a hidden yet related meaning to everything he writes. In the Metamorphosis, he shows readers how cruel human nature is with Gregor’s family. Kafka is an expert at putting a moral in each one of his stories, and creating an ending that is very unusual.
I thought it was interesting how the writer correlated “The monstrous vermin” with how our society can often view an “outcast”. When someone is different from what society calls “normal”, it is not our duty to pick fun at them. Our job is to love them and support them when they need it most. I find it heartbreaking to see those with a disability or social problem being made fun of. How will they ever accomplish anything or get over their issue if they have no support or options. We can see the effects of negativity on a person through Grogor in The Metamorphosis. No one cared to truly love him or give him any attention which resulted in a depressing life with nothing to do. People, including myself, need to make more of an effort to reach out and care for the less fortunate, or “different” people.
I thought that the article or paper really showed some interesting views of how to teach the odd/things that aren’t usually taught in classrooms. Kafka’s work is almost untrue in a sense, it is something that shouldn’t be taken seriously. Also when it talked about how people are outcasted from society like all of our books showed at some point. People may be different from others in society, but it does not mean that they should be ’shunned’ from their society. Just because they are different doesn’t mean they can’t contribute to people around them like others can. Frankenstein tried to help people and he was shunned too.
I found this article very interesting and I found myself really thinking about what it meant. I definitely agree with the writer in the introduction. I believe it is very hard for teachers to teach on issues and different topics like the ones we’ve looked over during this class. Honestly, I feel like this writer has a lot in common with my professor. I feel like professor took these different books and stories that we are not used to reading, and made us read them and discuss. Issues in this book are probably issues that most of us in class were not used to discussing about, but I think that it is good that we did. It opens our mind to different ideas and how people are not all how we ourselves are.
I found this article very interesting. It was interesting to look into the points that the writer had. I agree with what he talked about when he was discussing the different ways to teach the stories of Kafka. It really makes you look deeper into Kafka and his stories to grab a deeper meaning of where Kafka is coming from.
I like how Kafka is not a traditional author in the sense that he makes the reader get whatever he or she wants out of the story. This is a good writing style because everyone’s lives are different and the unique ideas they pull out of the novels can individually effect the reader. For example, the Metamorphosis taught me that it is important to provide for yourself and not rely on others.
I agree with the author’s introduction. It is hard now-a-days for a teacher to be able to teach about whatever they want without some type of persecution for it. It is difficult to be able to talk about difficult topics such as sex change. It is hard to have good class discussions about topics such as this because not many people our age have much experience or knowledge on these topics.