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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: The Metamorphosis 7639 Views
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Ever wake up to find that you’ve transformed into a giant bug? Just say, “I woke up like this,” and post a picture on Instagram. Works every time.* *This probably never works. We could’ve told you to avoid Raid cans and people throwing shoes at you, but what fun is practical advice?
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Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic metamorphoses Ah la
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shmoop Okay uh let's move on to another work that's
- 00:16
near and dear to our hearts Talk to us about
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kafka and the metamorphosis First can you give us just
- 00:22
a quick prices of the of the work What happens
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- 00:26
in the metamorphosis Gregor samsa wakes up one day to
- 00:30
find out he is a huge bug The first thing
- 00:36
he thinks about is how my going to goto work
- 00:39
when i'm a giant bug than his family Russia's in
- 00:43
there freaked out His boss comes over runs down the
- 00:47
stairs and that's kind of how he spends the rest
- 00:50
of his life just freaking people out come into his
- 00:53
room crawling around up and down the walls until his
- 00:58
family gets sick of them They throw an apple into
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him that get stuck infected He starts moving more and
- 01:07
more slowly And then one day he just kind of
- 01:10
guys What does gregor's transformation symbolize Gregor's Transformation into bug
- 01:18
seems to represent people's alienation from one another That was
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happening in the beginning of the twentieth century If there
- 01:27
is a lot of growth of technology a lot of
- 01:29
economic expansion It's really telling that gregor's first thought is
- 01:34
it Oh jeez um bug but how do i get
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to go to work when i'm turned into this Everything
- 01:41
about his existence has become about money and about supporting
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his family What do you mean by our alienation from
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one another S o alienation is a major theme of
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modernist writers They are concerned that there isn't the same
- 01:59
kind of human connection that there may have used to
- 02:01
have been People are out to exploit one another and
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only out for their own gain God okay fair enough
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What as a parable and it's not too bold a
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parent is a parable is a greek term that initially
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was used to mean sort of an illustration or a
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comparison thing to another something that is supposed to teach
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you a lesson Andi it's in its story so what's
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the lesson that turning gregor samsa into a bug teaches
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us about humanity that humans don't like bugs Or i
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think it's a little more than that we don't like
- 02:38
bugs I think it is that this way of life
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that costco was worried that we had adopted in the
- 02:45
twentieth century Wass creating people who don't feel like people
- 02:51
people who feel like less than people sort of like
- 02:56
slaves to their job or anything like that Who else
- 03:01
transforms in the metamorphoses The metamorphosis seems to have already
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occurred but what happens through the rest of the story
- 03:09
is how his transformation has caused other people to metamorphose
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eyes His family has to go out And get jobs
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His sister becomes his caretaker She ends the story by
- 03:26
becoming sort of a new adult woman who her parents
- 03:30
realize she is now ready to go out Mary on
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dh sort of continue the family line So the metamorphosis
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can be thought of not just a cz gregor turning
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into a bug but as the effect that that has
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on everyone Else's life What happens in the metamorphosis What
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does gregor's transformation symbolize What is a parable Who else 00:03:58.283 --> [endTime] transforms in the metamorphoses
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