The reason why I picked Romanticism to parallel between the Metamorphosis was because I felt that Gregor was a hidden Romantic. He had a picture of a Woman, and it was extremely important to his sanity that it stay in the room. In example, when his parents started taking all of his furniture out of his room, the most important thing to him was this picture of a woman in a fur coat. He actually went and laid on the wall where the picture was that way they wouldn’t see the picture and take it from him. This was the most important thing to him, and when they actually found out that he had been hiding the picture, they took the picture and he started to loose his touch on sanity. Once he lost this last little glimmer of hope that was Romance and the idea that he might change and turn back to normal to find love, he simply deteriorated and couldn’t continue on.
It would have been fairly simply to just parallel Symbolism with the Metamorphosis because this book was full of hidden symbols and meanings that one has to think about to truly understand. However, I wanted to challenge myself and show that other things can also apply if you search for them.
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