Question

In The Metamorphosis, Kafka shows us how genres can overlap, making fiction seem like a more ( Versatile, concrete, psychological, or allegorical ) form of writing than it might otherwise be. While the story is ( historical, scientific, realistic, or modernist )in its character depictions, it’s based on the ( classical, fatalistic, modernistic, or surrealistic ) event of a man changing into an insect. Gregor’s transformation into an insect is also (realistic, allegorical, historical, or modernist ) , since it serves to symbolize the larger themes of the story, such as isolation and alienation.

Answer 1

In The Metamorphosis, Kafka shows us how genres can overlap, making fiction seem like a more versatile form of writing than it might otherwise be. While the story is realistic in its character depictions, it’s based on the surrealistic event of a man changing into an insect. Gregor’s transformation into an insect is also allegorical, since it serves to symbolize the larger themes of the story, such as isolation and alienation.

Versatile- Able to adapt or be adapted to different functions; changeable.

Realistic- Representing familiar things in a way that can be true to life or accurate.

Surrealistic- Having a strange dreamlike atmosphere or quality; bizarre.

Allegorical- Containing allegory; something interpreted to revel a hidden meaning.

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Answer 2

It is versatile since it covers so many elements. That it is scientific since he turns from a man to an insect.  Then it is surrealistic because it is something that happens out of the ordinary.  It also allegorical since it tackles themes of alienation and isolation.