Thursday, February 24, 2011

Graphic Novel questions pg. 1014

1. The illustrations do not protray Gregor in a very grotesque way. The fact that Gregor is drawn with a human head greatly takes away from his transformation and undermines my original picture of him. I don't think that Kafka ever intended for Gregor to be part human and part bug. If Gregor did still have a human head in Metamorphosis, the family would probably not have been as disgusted by his appearance and then would have been more likely to talk to him. The illustrations are in black and white to make everything seem more primitive, depressing, and to represent the two dimensional characters in the story.

4. The faces of the family are caricatures like Gregor and they actually appear more grotesque to me than Gregor's face does. Perhaps this is meant to reflect their inner personalities, of which Gregor's is the most considerate.

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