The use of second person narrative in Carlos Fuentes’ “Aura” has you as a reader in such a trance like state, that you almost fail to recognize Señora Consuelo’s obsession with her youth.
Gregor’s transformation into a cockroach in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, at first comes across as freedom from his familial duties, but soon turns out to be a punishment, as he isn’t his family’s primary duty.
The neglect from Gregor Samsa’s own family after he turns into a cockroach in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, ultimately leads to Gregor’s alienation and neglect of his own life.
2 responses so far ↓
al158379 // Dec 5th 2015 at 4:00 am
Hi,
I think your third thesis is the best one. I feel like in your second thesis you’re trying to say what you actually said in the third one. It makes more of a point and more sense. You can expand how his alienation resulted from his family’s neglect which led him to neglect himself. You have some really good talking points here.
JMERLE // Dec 7th 2015 at 6:14 pm
Alyshia, nice work!
I agree that your third thesis would work nicely, and it’s probably the most specific (and I also agree with Alexandra that the second is a less refined version of your third, although you might include the idea of duty in the third statement, as well). The first is intriguing but rather vague. You would need to connect the reader’s “trance” to a specific theme Fuentes is working with, and this, although very interesting, could be tricky to work with.
9/10