* The Metamorphosis * Author: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) * Major Characters * Gregor Samsa – The main character in the story. He wakes up to find himself turned into a a large bug/roach. He is a travelling salesman and hates his job. However‚ he must work to support his family. He wishes to send his sister to violin school but must face the reality that he is an insect * Grete – Gregor’s loving younger sister. After his transformation‚ she takes care of him. She is a very talented
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before his eyes." Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a "monstrous vermin". The anxieties‚ inner terrors‚ and cynicism‚ which fill Gregor’s life‚ are expressed by Kafka throughout the novel‚ metamorphosis. Franz Kafka uses these feelings as an element of Expressionism to convey Gregor’s attitudes towards his life and society. Examples depicting this element of Expressionism used in the novel are Gregor’s feelings towards his job‚ the effect his job has on
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leader Vladimir Lenin’s health‚ Joseph Stalin stepped into the position of the general secretary of the Russian communist party in 1922 (Stock). This was the very beginning stage of Joseph Stalin’s enormous impact on the communist party‚ as well as the rest of the world. Although Stalin’s rule is sometimes considered extreme‚ Stalin had an enormous impression on Russian history as well as the collective history of the world. One of the most important things Joseph Stalin did was develop and enforce
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Saint Joseph There is no certain date when Saint Joseph was born‚ but he was said to be born around 100 BC. Saint Joseph is one of the three people in the Holy Family‚ also including Mary and Jesus. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus. Although he was a humble person‚ Joseph came from a royal lineage. His genealogy marks him as a descendant of David. Saint Matthew said that Joseph was the son of Jacob‚ but Saint Luke said he was the son of Heli. He was a carpenter
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Many people are uninformed or uneducated about Franz Stangl. He is not considered one of the obvious when someone thinks of the Holocaust. Franz Stangl had three (3) important parts of his life: his childhood‚ his career‚ and his death. Although he had a seemingly normal childhood‚ this man grew to become the “White Death” of history. “Stangl was born on 26 March 1908 in Altmünster‚ located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. The son of a nightwatchman‚ his relationship with his father was emotionally
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"Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence" -Vanna Bonta. In Franz Kafka’s "Metamorphosis"‚ there’s a strong allegory between the story and those people announcing their sexual orientation. After waking up to discover he is a bug and cannot speak‚ Gregor’s family shuns him because they don’t understand him. With his parents struggling to accept his new identity‚ he endures abuse. The "Metamorphosis" is a metaphor for many psychological events like physical abuse‚ willful blindness
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Odd Man In: Joseph The Life of Joseph December 5th‚ 2012 One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm‚ a mother was tucking her small son into bed. She was just about to turn off the light when he asked in a trembling voice‚ "Mommy‚ will you sleep with me tonight?" His mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can’t‚ Dear‚" she said‚ "I have to sleep with your daddy." After a long silence he said‚ "The big sissy." There are certain sayings we associate with our fathers. Here are
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world; work and acquaintances progress along without him‚ and his family shuts him away as if he had never existed. But despite the authorʼs frequent superficial focus on Gregor Samsaʼs physical aspect‚ it is fundamentally the mental breakdown which Franz
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the root of everything that came to follow. Because of Austria-Hungary’s desire to have legitimate cause to invade Serbia‚ they purposely set forward an ultimatum that they knew Serbia would reject. The ultimatum that was set forward was directly against the Serbian rights set forward in their Charter of Rights ‚ and yet Serbia agreed to everything except those points that defied their rights‚ which should have been acceptable‚ but Austria-Hungary refused to accept. As soon as the ultimatum came
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Saint Joseph Saint Joseph was the foster dad of Jesus which made him a saint but he was also know as Joseph of the House of David‚ Joseph the Betrothed‚ and Joseph the Worker is known from the New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem in the first century of BC. He settled in Nazareth and lived to be 111 before he died in Nazareth on July 20‚ AD 18. He was a hard-working carpenter with not a lot of money. Even though according to Christian tradition he was not the biological father of Jesus‚ he
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