Comparison of Ovid's and Kafka's Metamorphosis

The Metamorphoses “Books of transformations” of the Roman poet Ovid, probably written from year 1 or 3 AD to around 8 AD, are in hexameters, known to be authored as mythological works on Metamorphoses (" transformations "). The metamorphoses consist of 15 books, each about 700-900 verses and describe the origin and history of the world in terms of the Roman and Greek mythology. Since its release, it has always been one of the most popular mythological works of all and is certainly best known to the medieval writers and poets. Thus, this work had an enormous influence on the literature of the middle Ages and the visual arts from the middle Ages to the Baroque.

The myths in Ovid so often encountered stories about transformation, in which usually a human or a lower God transforms into the thing like a plant, an animal or a constellation (Keeping in mind that Katasterismos is transformed). The work begins with the creation of the world from chaos and a great flood, of which survived only a couple of people (Deucalion and Pyrrha), and it ends with the transformation of Caesar's soul into a star. Ovid moves from one sample to another, by working through the mythology. He often jumps to seemingly arbitrary way to a transformation of history; in truth, the transitions between the discrete transformation legends are extremely artistic. He mixes central scenes of Greek mythology with myths rather remote.

The Metamorphosis is a story of Franz Kafka, published in 1915 and explains the story of Gregor Samsa, a cloth merchant who lives with his family and wakes up to find himself transformed as a strange creature. It is essential to note, that sometimes the title is as transformation. This is because in any German dictionary, the word Verwandlung stands for "change," "transformation," "conversion," "reduction," "mutation" and only "Metamorphosis" when pointing to the language of classical mythology. In fact, the German word to describe the term is Metamorphosis; which is a term that doubtless records a variety of meanings (Kafka, Pp. 943-977).

To understand and study the theme of exile as projected in both the stories, it is essential to understand the element of these stories independently, and as one. The theme of Exile becomes apparent, in addition to the theme of, love. Ovid began work in year 1 BC, till 8. In 8 AD, Ovid had to go into exile, just as the work was almost completed. In the first half, of his career while he was working predominantly, Ovid in elegiac couplets, such as in amor ("Love Poems"), the “epistle hordeum” ("Heroidenbriefe") and in the “Ars amora” ("Art of Love") expresses his thinking and the element of being exiled. An exception is not tragedy Media. In terms of the Metamorphoses, Ovid chose the hexameter and therefore, is clearly to the epic (Ovid, Pp. 840-881).

Kafka expresses that man has no control over his destiny, which becomes apparent by the existential idea that man's fate is sometimes beyond man's ...