Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

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Nina Pelikan Strauss wrote “Transforming Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis” where she offers an in depth analysis of the male and female complex that dominates Metamorphosis. By offering a feminist point of view, Strauss analyzes the blossoming of Grete’s character at the expense of her brother Gregor through power struggles between the sexes, self-discovery, and Kafka’s own personal experience with women in his life. When writing the novella, Kafka appears to create the setting in a patriarchal dominant family but Straus gives a twisted female perspective about breaking down traditional gender roles while pondering the outcomes of the physical and internal metamorphosis that Grete and Gregor go through.
Often Strauss focuses on Gregor’s unfortunate
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