2007-01-31 05:18:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Depends on your outlook. Kafka had a sense of humor, if a strange one. Even though the Metamorphosis is a dark and creepy tale of powerlessness and alienation, there is something definitely absurd about someone that just wakes up a cockroach one morning and has to live with the consequences of that. It depends how you look at it.
Just look at the first sentence (I'm quoting from memory so it might not be exact): Gregor woke up one morning to find himself transformed into a horrible cockroach. That's it. No explanation, no nothing. That's just his fate. Was it their to question? It has kind of badaboom badabing feel to it in that sense.
2007-01-31 05:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is comedic because of Kafka's use of irony.
Have you ever played a game that asked what kind of animal you would be if you were an animal? Poor disillusioned Gregor Samsa...he would be the only one in the room who would be an insect. He's such an insect already that becoming an insect in the story is practicallly irrelevant.
Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair.
Franz Kafka
Born: 1883-07-03
Died: 1924-06-03
2007-01-31 13:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by maî 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he uses irony and that makes people usually laugh.
The Metamorphosis is an ironical comedy of human society and relationships.
2007-01-31 14:07:04 · answer #3 · answered by Mirela 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's dark comedy...not laugh out-loud funny, but darkly, ironically comical due to its absurdity
2007-01-31 13:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by jcresnick 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you label it a NOVEL when it's at best a novella?
2007-01-31 18:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋