SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Alienation

Essays 61 - 90

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

Life and Art of Franz Kafka

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

'In The Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

Parallels Between Kafka and the Character K in The Trial

This five page paper presents the character K as an alter ego of the author Franz Kafka. Six sources are listed....

Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero and Kabbalistic Influence

In five pages this essay examines Rabbi Cordovero's Kabbalistic influence in a discussion of history, beliefs, customs, and the im...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

AIDS Victims and Social Alienation

department said last summer that they felt betrayed that Lamson, a four-year veteran of their unit, may have exposed them to the d...

Definitive Myth of 'A Country Doctor' by Franz Kafka

In five pages Kafka's nightmarish short story is examined in terms of its contemporary myth functionality. There are 7 sources ci...

'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

In four pages Kafka's effective tongue in cheek literary style is examined within the context of this humorous short story. There...

Marxist Rhetoric in 'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

predictable of a portrayal for a writer as talented as Kafka. It has almost become cliche for writers to appear as either the poo...

'The Problem with Our Laws' by Franz Kafka

In seven pages Kafka's text is discussed and critically analyzed. Two other sources are cited in the bibliography....

'The Trial' by Franz Kafka

to deserve such cruel treatment from the authorities" (Ebert 914072.html). In a very short synopsis of the story we find "Josef...

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and The Trial by Franz Kafka

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

'The Judgement' by Franz Kafka

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

The Trial by Franz Kafka

that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and Samuel Beckett's 'Obligation to Express'

This report examines these two works within the context of Samuel Beckett's artistic observation regarding 'the obligation to expr...

A comparison of Gardner and Kafka

a parody of a treatise on theology and ontology; but his words are so effective that he mesmerizes Grendel and transforms/ shapes ...

Comparing 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

The Theme of Alienation in Death In Venice and Notes From The Underground

comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, ad...

Colony of Dr. Kafka

the quest for material gain, the colony members can focus on the more important of lifes priorities, such as family, friends and p...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter"

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

Concepts in Short Stories

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert

extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...

Franz Kafka's The Trial, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Dream or Surreal Time

In twelve pages dream or surreal time as they are represented in these literary works are examined. Five other sources are cited ...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...