Monday, July 16, 2007

Welcome

Hello and welcome to a place where we can share our creativity, and our reinterpretations of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Before beginning you creative rewrite of the story there is some rules that you must adhere to. If you choose to rewrite the ending Gregor must remain alive in some capacity, and he must remain a dung beetle/insect who is the size of a human, and has a human mind. The key is to keep him alive, but also to resolve the story, and to bring it to some sort of conclusion.

If you decide instead to rewrite the beginning of the story Gregor must wake up as a different animal. This will highlight the importance, and grotesqueness of Kafka's dung beetle/insect to the story.

The minimum requirement for this exercise is a 1 page response, and the maximum is 3 pages. I'm hoping that most of you will fall somewhere in between. Good luck and create hell in your imagination.

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