ENG140Y5 Lecture Notes - Human Frailty, Black Comedy, Aesthetic Realism
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Nightmarish, bizarre, endlessly and pointlessly complex and illogical. A sense of threat , menace, distortion of reality. The individual in this is diminished by his and her surroundings and superiors. Feels a sense of isolation, psychological disturbances. The metamorphosis allows gregor to notice things he normally wouldn"t: the symbolist novella, the symbolism of gregor"s metamorphosis . The loss of dignity, individuality, sanity by becoming a bug. A transformation of a human being into something much smaller: symbolic narrative; kafka"s supporting symbolism. The setting and everthing and everything surrounding are also symbolic. Pathetic fallacy: weather or environment reflect the feeling of the characters, or feeling of self: expressionism, the expressionist aesthetic. Replaced realism with powerful exaggerated emotion and thought. The goal is not to depict things as they happen, but to make them reflect emotional content of. Image of an individual alone in an industrial mechanized society the creator and subject. To paint so the appearance is what"s inside.
