I need to write an argument essay on "The Metamorphosis"; what can i write about. It could be anything as long as it's something that i can argue about. Also, the topic should be something that has a lot of reliable sources (works cited---any articles, books, magazines, internet sources). I really need help. Please help me out.
2007-02-28 07:36:15 · 4 answers · asked by Dan L 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
First you should start by saying that Kafka was not a published writer during his life. They found his best novel after he died.
This must have had an impact towards his view to society.
Unfortunately the writer himself does not have a clear view of why things really happen in his novel, he is prisoner of mysterious circoumstances, a bit fantastic, sur-realism,typical for the time literary current. His hero, cause it's a he, like the writer, is tormented and unhappy and always gives up in front of the pressure made by the world upon him. In this particular story he actually escapes in a virtual sur-real fantasy. An escapism to protect him from the cruelty of the real world. What if ?one day you would wake up and find out you're not you anymore but a different person, a bug, easy to crush, it is how he saw himself, as a disturbing person, young and misunderstood.
2007-02-28 08:46:20 · answer #1 · answered by ParaskeveTuriya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't really even consider the other three answers that are posted. I took Metamorphosis literally. I think it was written that well, that, believable. The dread and fear is real. The not understanding what was happening to him is real. His seeing that ultimately he was a burden and finally had to got rid of was real. He was absolutely of no use to anyone. I've read this book more than a few times and I truly felt sorry for him, like you'd feel sorry for a good friend or relative that died in a random car accident.
2007-02-28 18:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by Bill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could argue that the protagonist actually is more human in his acting and thinking after his metamorphosis than before.
It should be really easy to find sources on this. Just google "Kafka, Metamophorsis" and check the library.
2007-02-28 15:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you like it? If not why - something to argue about. My tutor would accept ANY kind of argument so long as I was able to back it up.
2007-02-28 15:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by riz109 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋