Franz kafka biography powerpoint lesson plan

Presentation on theme: "The Metamorphosis (1915) Franz Kafka."— Presentation transcript:

1 The Metamorphosis (1915)Franz Kafka

2 Biographical, Historical, and Conceptual Contexts

3 Franz KafkaBorn in 1883 into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in PragueStudied lawWorked at an insurance company in order to support his parentsDeveloped an inferiority complex partly due to his difficult, neurotic relationship with his tyrannical fatherHad very little time to devote to his writingContracted tuberculosis in 1917 and was supported by his sister and parentsFeared being perceived as both physically and mentally repulsiveSuffered from clinical depression, social anxiety, and several other illnesses triggered by stressDied in 1924 from starvation when his tuberculosis worsened and could not swallow

4 Kafka’s Alienation Felt he was an outsider Jewish in Catholic Prague
SicklyLonelyPerceived human beings asbeing trapped by author