Monday, June 19, 2006

A scared animal

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka


"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."...

Thus began the story of a man with an extremely depressive personality, and he looked at the world in an extremely pessimistic way. which made the reading, too, distressing, although, occasionally, one was amused by small humors here and there.

Others have found numerous cultural or societal implications from or for this story; but really it matters little how the world turns, or does not turn, for someone in such a desperate yet perceptive mindset, which is what this story talks about.

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