Thesis, Elizaveta Paliy

The Myth of Sysiphus focuses on human’s life as on an absurd struggle between a desire to have a meaningful life and a cold reality. According to that worldview, the climax of a journey is the choice between suicide or life. In the Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, protagonist chose suicide. Was Bartleby’s death an acceptance to meaningless of the life or he died from his destructive lifestyle?
Surrealism is a connection between a dream and reality in one art or literary work. Franz Kafka in his book Metamorphosis built a dream-like reality. Unbelievable events are happening one after another but seems real and normal to every single person from the book. What is the purpose of dreams in the metamorphosis of Georg?

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