Nightmarish Quality In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the straightforward style enhances the nightmarish quality of the work. At the beginning of the story it starts off with, “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The story immediately starts off by having the main character turned into a roach without any warning. Since there is no tension leading up to Gregor being turned into a roach it makes the reader wonder what just happened. The part that makes it so chilling is that the tone is very nonchalant despite the fact the main character has just awoke and found himself no longer human. Another example that shows how the writing boosts the nightmarish quality is when