Hi, I just wanted to share my opinion on the play we saw last night. Last week some of you may remember me saying: " i don't get absurd literature, anyone can do it and it shouldn't be considered a real literary genre." Due to my lack of knowledge of the literary world, i believed that absurd literature meant works such as the ones of Ionesco (my opinion on Ionesco remain the same, it's not that hard typing random sentences one after the other.) But literary works such as Kafka's metamorphosis, although not possible, are was entertaining. Any ways, I really liked the play's cast of actors, they were talent and made a sad story enjoyable. The set was great too, like we said in class, the bird's eye view of Gregor's room had a nice touch to it; as well as Gregor and how had to be climbing and crawling the walls all the time, it emphasized the fact that he became a creepy vermin. I'm not a play kind of person because they are long (usually) and the actors are always exaggerating, it just gets so annoying after 2 hours of constant hand gesture and screaming. But in this case it was fine, and i actually liked the play.
Sitting expresses two different points of view in this play. First of all the point of view of Gregor is expressed. In the play, sitting at the table, having breakfast with the family is a privilege that Gregor didn't share with his family. Gregor had to work all day and he couldn't waste his time eating with his father, mother and sister. This shows how the main character was excluded by familiars and exploited for his job. Certainly, at those times, it was normal for the older son to work and to bring home money, but Gregor couldn't even eat calmly, sitting on a chair. When Gregor's father threw the chair away in the play, it doesn't mean that his son was no longer welcomed to the table, since he didn't eat with his parents even before the transformation, but at least before, the chair was there, he had a place in the family, a place that his father threw out the window. The chair is a symbol of Gregor's transformation, he is not able to sit and eat normally, he is therefore now recognized as an animal and refused. For Gregor's father, the chair represent Gregor's human form, when for Gregor that chair was his place in the family.
Hi, I just wanted to share my opinion on the play we saw last night. Last week some of you may remember me saying: " i don't get absurd literature, anyone can do it and it shouldn't be considered a real literary genre." Due to my lack of knowledge of the literary world, i believed that absurd literature meant works such as the ones of Ionesco (my opinion on Ionesco remain the same, it's not that hard typing random sentences one after the other.) But literary works such as Kafka's metamorphosis, although not possible, are was entertaining. Any ways, I really liked the play's cast of actors, they were talent and made a sad story enjoyable. The set was great too, like we said in class, the bird's eye view of Gregor's room had a nice touch to it; as well as Gregor and how had to be climbing and crawling the walls all the time, it emphasized the fact that he became a creepy vermin. I'm not a play kind of person because they are long (usually) and the actors are always exaggerating, it just gets so annoying after 2 hours of constant hand gesture and screaming. But in this case it was fine, and i actually liked the play.
ReplyDeleteI think Ionesco is actually pretty talented, but at least I'm happy to hear that you see the merit in Kafka :)
ReplyDeleteSitting expresses two different points of view in this play.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all the point of view of Gregor is expressed. In the play, sitting at the table, having breakfast with the family is a privilege that Gregor didn't share with his family. Gregor had to work all day and he couldn't waste his time eating with his father, mother and sister. This shows how the main character was excluded by familiars and exploited for his job. Certainly, at those times, it was normal for the older son to work and to bring home money, but Gregor couldn't even eat calmly, sitting on a chair. When Gregor's father threw the chair away in the play, it doesn't mean that his son was no longer welcomed to the table, since he didn't eat with his parents even before the transformation, but at least before, the chair was there, he had a place in the family, a place that his father threw out the window. The chair is a symbol of Gregor's transformation, he is not able to sit and eat normally, he is therefore now recognized as an animal and refused.
For Gregor's father, the chair represent Gregor's human form, when for Gregor that chair was his place in the family.