Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
The play without words.
Only actors.sounds. auedience
Only actors.sounds. auedience
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked."
"What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream.
Kafka "toyed" with death to the extent that his great writings may be seen as a sort of highly imaginative rehearsal for the end of all things: little suicides, if you like. Metamorphosis is the most vivid – the saddest, most ghastly and unforgettable – of them all.
Kafka's masterpiece is "the story of a very ordinary family where something awful happens.
But there is a lot of laughter in among the awfulness.
But there is a lot of laughter in among the awfulness.
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Funny, horrific, poignat and provocative, as well- often in the same time.
Details make sense. Light which changes from blue to yellow.Only two rooms of the living room and Gregor's bedroom.
Locked away in his own room, he becomes a nuisance to his family, who must not only learn to rely upon themselves but also deal with their disappointment and repulsion at what their son has become.
Just as Gregor´s emotions and movements transform from those of a human to those of an insect, so to does his family transition from horror and sympathy to ultimate betrayal…
Just as Gregor´s emotions and movements transform from those of a human to those of an insect, so to does his family transition from horror and sympathy to ultimate betrayal…
"Investigating further the almost unconditional adaptability of humans and their very little effort of questioning how their world shape up let alone change it. Gregor denies his transformation at first then try to find the best way to walk, the best place to sit and sleep, the best food to devour. Not once he wonders why he became what he is now. The family does not seek by any means to cure Gregor or find a solution to what happened to him and again, almost never question the sense beyond this incident. Does this suggest that we humans, only deal with suffering with embedding more suffering in our lives? How absurd could that be?"
How absurd could that be?
Thank you
Mariia Senyshyn
