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9 pages in length. Literature is often a reflection of social anomalies cleverly hidden within prose. For Kafka, Shelley and Stevenson, the notion of norms, acceptance and rejection as they relate to external features, pointing out how superficial society is when it comes to judging people by how they look rather than who they are by character. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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norms, acceptance and rejection as they relate to external features, pointing out how superficial society is when it comes to judging people by how they look rather than who they
are by character. II. VARYING METAMORPHOSES, SAME PRINCIPLE The primary premise in Kafkas The Metamorphosis, Shellys Frankenstein and Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde is reflected in the way society reacts to and treats those who are not considered normal. Focusing upon the concept of acceptance, each author strives to enlighten
mankind of his own shortcomings with regard embracing others unconditionally despite whatever perceived physical or emotional imperfections may exist. Kafkas The Metamorphosis applies a number of themes that carefully
and quite calculatingly examine the aspect of acceptance and rejection; one of the most apparent displays of this comes when Gregor is accused of being better off as a beetle
than he had been as a person. It is here the reader finds how Gregors family no longer has any use or empathy for the one-time breadwinner after he
is mysteriously transformed into what they perceive as a worthless, vile insect. That he is not the same person his family has come to know - having become a
grotesque physical specimen - compels them to display hostility and defiance toward the changed man, even though he remains the same person on the inside whom they once loved and
admired. Underscoring the myopic perception mankind often harbors against those of his own kind, The Metamorphosis was penned to illustrate just how malicious people are to those who are
different (Hill 161). Working on the assumption that most people live their lives out of habit and routine, Kafka philosophized that achieving self-awareness and overcoming such narrow-mindedness is borne out
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