"Gregor Samsa awoke from troubling dreams one morning to find that his life had remained conspicuously the same."" This - in context of the entire book - is the actual opening line of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa, the unfortunate protagonist and indirect narrator of the story has been "...

Could it really be that Gregor Samsa has transformed from a human being into a fly? This sounds like something out of the X-files, but somehow it happens in "The Metamorphosis," or at least that is what Kafka wants the reader to believe. To be able to read this story, the reader must think that ...

Metamorphosis Revisited Despite appearances which may seem to promote a sense of comedy, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis actually contains an enormous quantity of symbolism, which serves to underscore several literal events which may have taken place in said story. Within the nove...