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The theme of my 6-photo-portfolio is loneliness. Loneliness, in my opinion, would be my one word adjective to describe “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka (aka Jimmy Hoffa). The whole metamorphosis was a metaphor for how he felt and although he experienced many negative emotions, non was more apparent than this one. Aside from his sister, Gregor felt no attachment to another person, and even she could not take away his feeling of being empty. I decided to put my slideshow into an order from the beginning signs of loneliness into basically a depression due to the lack of connections to society. This progression goes along well with the idea of a metamorphosis and even more with the dance interpretation that we saw as a class which gave a slow progression from human, to sub-human, into ultimately a bug. The idea of a cockroach furthers the idea of finally ending up curled into a ball or into a shell of sorts as you finally give up and accept the fact you will be alone. Loneliness is a very strong emotion because even with hundreds of people around you, interacting with you (like the subway photo), you can still feel totally alone inside. This emotion feeds and powers off of a persons mindset, which is much stronger than reality in certain cases and make you feel very seriously like a cockroach. In my slideshow I tried to show a progression of physical curling up into a bug, finalizing in a “monster’ (a dog in reality) hiding in the shadows. What is interesting is that many times someone’s loneliness can drain loved-ones around them and only leaving the affected person, or them actually passing away, is the only way to return to happiness. That seems to be the real idea of the story and proven by the closest individual, the sister Grete, being the center point of a crucifixion-like freedom at the end of the dance interpretation.
I really like this idea and hope that this slideshow and response serves as my own interpretation of “The Metamorphosis”, with Gregor as the main character.
I like your focus on loneliness, since I really empathized with Gregor when I read Metamorphosis. He is lonely in his daily routine, lonely in his isolation as a giant cockroach, and lonely in his death. I like the progression in the photos you chose and its congruence with the book. Really nice job!
I think the word loneliness is a great way to describe the story and summarize it. Gregor was definitely lonely and I think this is one of the reasons the family didn’t really react to him after he turned into a roach. They didn’t know how to deal with this so they decided not to deal with it at all. I felt very bad for Gregor because I think that if his family was more open minded then maybe they could learn to deal with this situation and maybe the story would end differently. Just something to think about, but I really like you analysis and exhibition!