The Metamorphosis & The Yellow Wallpaper
In my opinion, I found Kafka’s short story to intrigue me in more ways than some other pieces we have read so far. I thought that The Metamorphosis was an immensely compelling and tragic story. As I reader, I would … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Wasteland
The Wasteland is a text of mysteries. While there might be some that tear their hair out over these mysteries, analyzing with scrupulous eyes, I embrace the mystery. I try to read the text for what it is, pretty sounding … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Metamorphosis
I can understand now how Utterson and Walton must have felt upon laying eyes on these monstrosities they can’t quite describe, but do anyways. Because that is exactly how I feel about Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Maybe it is the many books and literature classes I’ve taken in high school, but I feel so completely without words. […]
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is preoccupied above all with the secret and mysterious life of things. It’s concerned with the human and the non-human, and the surprisingly porous line between them. The narrator takes for granted that things … Continue reading →
Kafka and Gilman: First Impressions
To have a better sense of what Gilman’s narrator was experiencing during “The Yellow Wallpaper”, I went to a local coffee shop that had yellow walls and read the text there. After reading the story, I’m no longer sure if … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Kafka and Gilman: First Impressions
To have a better sense of what Gilman’s narrator was experiencing during “The Yellow Wallpaper”, I went to a local coffee shop that had yellow walls and read the text there. After reading the story, I’m no longer sure if … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Paper and Bugs
I began The Yellow Wallpaper slightly confused. I was trying to figure out what exactly was making her sick, and had initially come to the assumption that it was depression. But as things progressed it quickly became something more like … Continue reading →
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The Perception of Change
I found The Metamorphosis to be very Kafkaesque, which makes sense I suppose. Although I don’t think stories always need a definitive meaning, it makes it easier for me to write about The Metamorphosis if I figure out some consistent … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Yellow Wallpaper and Metamorphosis
I tend to be a rather direct disliking absurd or strange ways of writing that deviate from convention. However, I did admire the Yellow Wallpaper and The Metamorphosis and I actually quite like The Metamorphosis. The major reason i liked … Continue reading → Continue reading →