The Castle: A Social Commentary? The Castle is unlike any novel I have ever read. This could be attributed to a number of things that makes the book difficult to follow. Kafka writes with a very muddled and confusing style-and example being that his main character is simply referred to with t...

In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is alienated long before his transformation into a dung-beetle, the job that gave him no satisfaction and the family that exploited him kept him isolated from himself and society. Kafka uses Gregor to exorcize his opinions against the capitalist socie...

After exploring both the existentialistic and metaphysical aspects of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, I realized that the story was richly filled with other significant themes. These themes help to make this story one of the most unique and intelligently written novellas written in its time an...