Friday, May 1, 2009

The Metamorphosis

Place project ideas as comments here.

Narrative point-of-view; situation of narrator; narrator’s stance toward narrative
Nature of truth
Transmissibility of experience
Fantastic, magical, or eerie elements within realistic novel
Parent-child relations
Richly detailed scenes for comparison
Use of language in specific scenes compared (figures of speech, comparisons, imagery, style, tone)

3 comments:

Josh said...

The use of Gregor as an allegory for the unity of man and animal.

Meg McGill said...

The use of Gregor as an allegory for the division of man and animal.

Alyson said...

The idea of outsiders, in this book it is Gregor, and in The Merchant of Venice it is Shylock. I am going to compare their relationships with the other characters.