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Hatred In The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

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Listening to the interactive orals regarding The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka truly deepened my understanding of the novela and the underlying themes present in it. Primarily, I found that Arabella’s insight on Prague’s history to reveal multiple motives behind the actions of characters. During Kafka’s time, Prague was not the capital of Czechoslovakia but rather deemed the “Prague Ghetto”, in which anti-semitism reigned despite the large number of Jewish families. I now believe that this culture of hatred greatly impacted Kafka and so it is represented as an extended metaphor through the novella. Pre-translation, the word “vermin” in the first sentence is speculated to have meant “jew” in a derogatory manner. This posits that Gregor’s metamorphosis
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