Literary analysis of Frankenstein
This essay establishes how alienation plays a role in the following two texts in terms of novel characterisation, Frankenstein, and Metamorphosis. Literary analysis of Frankenstein and Metamorphosis when an individual does not meet, or adhere to the societal values, and the culture of that civilisation they may be rejected. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein explores the world of the fugitive which can also be seen through the life, and death of Kafka’s character in his work Metamorphosis with his character Gregor Samsa at the helm of the story.
To commence the analysis. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka gives a fiercer presence at alienation as a novel characterisation, In Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Gregor Samsa is transformed into a metaphorical bug like beast overnight for no apparent reason. This extraordinary transformation according to author Gavriel Ephraim is a punishment by existence itself. Gavriel Ephraim argues that Kafka illustrates the original sin story as an allegory from Genesis.
Not only are these characters pushed and forced into scenarios that are beyond anyone would expect to experience in actual life. In Shelley’s creation of a man who made from the cadavers, and forgotten flesh from the Charnel House, abattoirs, and slaughterhouses. It is plausible to conclude that the the creature and the creator Victor Frankenstein face a preposterous scenario…
