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    The Metamorphosis

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    Characterization Comparison-The Metamorphosis and The Judgment 1. Comparison between Georg Bendemann and Gregor Samsa(PROTAGONISTS) Similarities: * “Indirect characterization” * Dynamic characters * Stream of consciousness‚ which depicts their emotions * Round characters * Third-person point of view * Author’s depiction of them is biased as it is autobiographic in a way * Character depicted through the way they interact with their superiors and inferiors in the story

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    In The Stranger by Albert Camus is a novel with multiple themes. This is probably one of the most theme rich novels I have ever read and I only touched on a few of the key themes presented in the novel. The themes are mortality‚ isolation‚ nature‚ religion‚ women‚ passivity‚ and society’s social class. The Stranger opens with an announcement of death; Salamano’s old dog is in a state of decay; the protagonist murders‚ and is then sentenced to execution. The centrality of death‚ as a concept‚ is

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    a past relationship. We go to great lengths to attempt to change or forget what has happened before‚ but it always seems to fail because our minds cannot simply forget these events that rip and tear at us from the inside. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis‚ Kafka explores the absurdity of life through Gregor’s transformation as he struggles with himself and the outside world around him. In this story Kafka writes about a dream that he had years earlier. He tells the story just as the dream occurs

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    Existentialism in No Exit

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    In his play‚ No Exit‚ Jean-Paul Sartre examines basic themes of existentialism through three characters. The first subject‚ Garcin‚ embraces existentialist ideas somewhat. The second character‚ Inez‚ seems to fully understand ideas deemed existential. Estelle is the third person‚ and does not seem to understand these ideas well‚ nor does she accept them when they are first presented to her. One similarity amongst the three is that they all at some point seem to accept that they are in Hell for

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    The Stranger: Essay Topic 1 Albert Camus’s The Stranger takes place in a society confined with social standards that dictate who everyone is supposed to be and how they’re supposed to act. In the middle of this society‚ Camus introduces the character of Meursault‚ who is anything but ordinary. Meursault’s nonconformist personality causes him to be alienated from the world. However‚ he isolates himself more with his attitude about not caring about anyone but himself. Throughout the novel‚ The Stranger

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    This past week I went to a university wide event called Metamorphosis. At this event there was a good crowd of 300 people and most of them were first students. It was held at the concert hall here on the SU campus. Metamorphosis is a play that talks and depicts sexual assaults in relations to alcohol where there were scenes showing the exploitation of a drunken girl‚ consents gray areas‚ and that it is not always the girl who is sexually assault‚ but guys too are affected. All the scenes that I watched

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    In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis‚ there are significant actions and transformations which make the story sad‚ and strange with a happy ending. For Gregor Samsa‚ reality does not change‚ even when it seems it must. Kafka’s choice of a cockroach was said to be random and unintentional; however‚ the fact that the author selected the lowest and most hated of insects‚ portrayed as dirty‚ disease-ridden‚ and gruesome‚ is very symbolic. By turning Gregor into a cockroach rather than another creature‚

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    The short story “The Myth of Sisyphus” and the novel The Stranger show how one can achieve happiness regardless of the disparity of their situation.  In “The Myth of Sisyphus” the character Sisyphus is sentenced to push a rock to the top of a hill and then let it fall under its own weight‚ and repeat the action.  In The Stranger the character Meursault is faced with a public execution.  Both characters expressed different characteristics‚ however found peace through the same route.  At the end of

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    The use of Marxist ideas is very prominent within Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Kafka represents and highlights socialist ideas within the text by using characterisation and other techniques. Samsa can be seen as a symbol of the alienated worker‚ Gregor’s father as the oppressive Bourgeoisie and finally how the story can be seen as a critique of the industrialised society of the early 20th Century. Looking at Karl Marx’s theories of worker alienation‚ Gregor Samsa highlights the “deadening of the soul”

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    Strangers‚ Again Writing a relationship story from a video clip is so difficult and so inherently uninteresting‚ that there really needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story. And that reason has to do with how characters are getting along or not. To put characters in this overused and fairly boring situation‚ something more has to be happening than simply hugs‚ kisses and cuddles. What else is love about in this video clip except getting along or not getting along? To put

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