The story was told in a third person limited omniscient point of view where the narrator shares or knows Gregor’s feelings and thoughts and this, along with other clues helped me come to the conclusion that Gregor’s transformation into an insect is representative of his normal life. The most obvious clue of the connection between the transformation and Gregor’s live is his own reaction to the horrific event; He was hardly shocked at all. Any human who finds him or herself transformed into a huge insect would think of nothing but disbelief, and yet, after one quick exclamation, “What’s happened to me?” (Par. 2), and the brief thought that it may be a dream, his mind went right back to his normal life. Once he realized that he could not go back to sleep and forget it as though it were just dream, he exclaimed how tiring his job as a traveling salesman was: “Always on the go,
Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book. The killing of the mother sow is an extremely shocking event in the novel. When it describes that ‘the great bladder of her belly was fringed with a row of piglets’ it shows how savage the boys have become and how much they have changed, especially Jack, because at the beginning of the novel he had difficulty killing the piglet because of ‘the enormity of the knife descending and cutting in to living flesh’ and now ‘practice had made Jack silent as the shadows.’ The quote ‘wedded to her in lust’ shows us that they specifically want the female pig and won’t rest until they have her. The scene is extremely graphic and the notion of what they are doing is terrifying. The fact that the pig went from being ‘in maternal bliss’ to ‘dim-eyed and grinning faintly’ is also terrifying, because they took something innocent and turned it into something wicked, which is essentially what happened to them.
Experiences such as the loss of close relationships, the horrors of bloodshed and death and the changes in men for the worst can make any once normal man insane, just has it made Robert Ross insane. Throughout the novel we follow Robert Ross as he not only loses those he loves, but also with time, his own very mind. In the novel, The Wars, Robert Ross holds his relationship with his family dearly, but things quickly change for the worse as the war in the battlefront transitions into the war with himself. During the beginning of the novel Robert Ross lives a content and tolerable life with his beloved sister Rowena, his stern Mother Mrs. Ross, his lenient Father Mr. Ross and his brother. Roberts’s relationship with Rowena is one that he holds dearly.
The decisions the creature makes out of his suffering, or his characterization, show that one may not overcome suffering. The creature is also turned away without being taught a thing and suffers from the confusion over the world. The conflicts with Victor continue on multiple occasions in Frankenstein. Once the creature learns that it is his appearance that causes people to flee and reject him, he despises himself, but even more Victor. His suffering over his rejection in society had fueled his angry making him hostile.
The Monster in the Lab Coat Many literary critics have long argued a question regarding Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Who is the real monster? One can argue that, throughout the novel, it is Victor Frankenstein, the overly ambitious scientist, who is the true monster. Victor Frankenstein is depicted as a callous creator who shows no empathy to his own innocent creature. Frankenstein fails his responsibility as a creator and abandons his creation to a life full of abhorrence. The creature has infinite potential, but it is Frankenstein’s prideful nature and negligence that makes the creature become “monstrous”.
First, Frankenstein is set in a male-dominated society, where the influence of women in the family is not present very often. The dream that Victor has before the monster is created, gives the reader an idea behind Victor’s motives. When he visions Elizabeth as his dead mother lying there, it represents the weakness of compassion in women. After he has this dream, he wants create a being that could act as his child and love him like one. So Victor does just that, but after it awakes, he is filled with disgust and hates his creation because in his eyes it is ugly.
Charlotte’s Web The story of Charlotte’s Web touches upon many different emotions grabbing the attention of its readers on so many different levels. Charlotte’s Web symbolizes the true meaning of life and why we work together as a team. Reading about how all of these animals work together to save their friends life is overwhelmingly passionate. The world is what it is because of each and every living organism working together to make it function. Fern catches word that her father is going to kill a pig because it is the runt of the litter and will eventually be more of a hassle than of any good.
Gregor demonstrates the individual, with the metaphor of a bug taking him to the levels of dehumanization and alienation that Kafka wishes to convey. The rigid institutions and practices of a modern society creates the burden of dehumanization and alienation in an individual. Gregor is undoubtedly made out to be a victim of the system, among other things. This is made apparent when considering his line of work, and the way that his family and his firm treat him in regard to it. Gregor begins to notice and acknowledge this when someone from the office first arrives in the flat to see why he isn’t at work.
Victor disliked death and suffering in life because he had lost his mother and it had been too big of a shock for Victor to handle. Because of this, Victor was fascinated with the chance of being able to bring his mother back, and to end all suffering. Victor’s mind grew with ambition because he knew that he had the knowledge and the power to do so. Eventually, Victor’s mind had started to take over. It is evident when he states, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been quality of a crime” (Frankenstein 34).
Trapped in a Bug’s Skin “The Skin I’m In”, is a common quote one familiarize themselves with but what about “The Bug’s Skin I’m In”. “The Metamorphosis” examines that from a bug’s point of view of how things changed around him. Gregor Samsa, the protagonist in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is an ordinary, responsible, and devoted individual who undergoes an actual and mental metamorphosis. While experiencing that stage, his shiftless father, Mr. Samsa, his weak mother, Mrs. Samsa, and his nurturing sister, Grete all play a role in how Gregor analyze life through a bug's perspective. Gregor Samsa is a traveling salesman who has never missed a day of work nor has he called in a sick day.