I have to say that out of all of the authors that people presented on, Franz Kafka seems to be one of the most bizarre and unique. I liked how you choose to emphasize that in focuses your presentation on his style being self-named, “Kafkaesque”. The reoccurring eyes throughout the visuals on your blog did its purpose of being very creepy. I was impressed by the background knowledge that you shared about Kafka’s cover artist choosing to put multiple eyes on the cover because of the omniscience that they posed was an interesting fun fact about your presentation. It showed that you really put a lot of research into Kafka and his writing.
Out of all of the short stories that you discussed, I think that Metamorphosis sounded like the most creative and just plain weird. I mean, it takes a very unique person to start a story with the main character waking up as a cockroach and then make meaning of it from there. I read your AP Open Question Essay #2 about the relationship between Gregor and his family. It was shocking to see how quickly Gregor’s family isolated him once he became a cockroach and how they believed that they were better off after he was gone. That is not a typical ending. What’s even more interesting is that Kafka drew a lot of those isolation experiences from his own family and the bad relationship that he had with his father. It shows how Kafka incorporates a lot of his past feelings of isolation and loss of identity into the character of Gregor becoming a cockroach. I could see how in all of Kafka’s stories that you mentioned, he drew emotions and experience from his life and added them in. This literary representation of himself goes along with how you mentioned that almost all of Kafka’s main characters have the last initial of K, just like he does. In your essays and presentation, you really seemed to have fully researched and encompassed the idea of what it means to be “Kafkaesque”.
I have to say that out of all of the authors that people presented on, Franz Kafka seems to be one of the most bizarre and unique. I liked how you choose to emphasize that in focuses your presentation on his style being self-named, “Kafkaesque”. The reoccurring eyes throughout the visuals on your blog did its purpose of being very creepy. I was impressed by the background knowledge that you shared about Kafka’s cover artist choosing to put multiple eyes on the cover because of the omniscience that they posed was an interesting fun fact about your presentation. It showed that you really put a lot of research into Kafka and his writing.
ReplyDeleteOut of all of the short stories that you discussed, I think that Metamorphosis sounded like the most creative and just plain weird. I mean, it takes a very unique person to start a story with the main character waking up as a cockroach and then make meaning of it from there. I read your AP Open Question Essay #2 about the relationship between Gregor and his family. It was shocking to see how quickly Gregor’s family isolated him once he became a cockroach and how they believed that they were better off after he was gone. That is not a typical ending. What’s even more interesting is that Kafka drew a lot of those isolation experiences from his own family and the bad relationship that he had with his father. It shows how Kafka incorporates a lot of his past feelings of isolation and loss of identity into the character of Gregor becoming a cockroach. I could see how in all of Kafka’s stories that you mentioned, he drew emotions and experience from his life and added them in. This literary representation of himself goes along with how you mentioned that almost all of Kafka’s main characters have the last initial of K, just like he does. In your essays and presentation, you really seemed to have fully researched and encompassed the idea of what it means to be “Kafkaesque”.