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Franz Facts
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The literary movement Franz Kafka was apart of.

What was the existential?

100
The event in the very beginning of the novella that sparked the conflict of the story.
What is Franz waking up as a beetle?
100
This is the protagonist of the story.
Who is Gregor Samsa?
100
This dear friend of Kafka went against his word by publishing much of Kafka's work after his death.
What is Max Brod?
100
How readers may describe Kafka's tone throughout the novella.
What is dark and serious tone?
200
Franz once wrote a one hundred page to this member of his family explaining their toxic relationship, many believed this relationship heavily influence his outlook on life.
Who is his father?
200
The family decides to completely isolate Gregor, who they view as inhuman, and never allow him to leave his room. This evolves into them not valuing Gregor and viewing him as inhuman.
What is his family's reaction to Gregor turning into a giant beetle?
200
These are the characters Gregor lives with in his apartment.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Samsa, Grete Samsa, and the three boarders?
200
This is the location near where Kafka died.
What is Vienna, Austria?
200
This is one of the themes, that can be made evident through this quote in the novella: "But the empty high-ceilinged room in which he was forced to lie flat on the floor made him nervous, without his being able to tell why – since it was, after all, the room in which he had lived for the past five years – and turning half unconsciously and not without a slight feeling of shame, he scuttled under the couch."
What is isolation?
300

The disease that Kafka died from

What is tuberculosis?

300
This event is the climax.
What is Gregor running into the living room in reaction to Grete's violin playing, scaring off the boarders and upsetting the family to the point of deciding Gregor must die?
300
This character is stern and attacks Gregor, weakening him and leading to his death.
Who is Mr. Samsa?
300
This is the year his most famous work, Metamorphosis, was published.
What is 1915?
300
This is one of the themes of the story as the following quote may demonstrate: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." In this quotation, an extremely bizarre and unexplained event takes place that changes Gregor's life.
What is how outrageous life ultimately is?
400
The day time occupation Kafka held until falling ill.
What is insurance agent?
400
This is how the conflict is resolved.
What is Gregor dies?
400
This character is perhaps a 'mirror' of who Gregor was before, and although very caring of Gregor in the beginning, they are taken over with greed by the end.
Who is Grete Samsa?
400
This is the number of times Kafka married in his life.
What is none?
400
This is the feeling Kafka imbues in his readers through events ostracizing Gregor from his family during a series of events which show the selfishness of his family members.
What is loneliness?
500
Where Kafka was from.
What is Prague in then Austro-Hungary?
500
The family is happy and at peace and take a vacation.
What is how the family reacts to Gregor's death?
500
This minor character is aware of Gregor's death but is shut up by the family.
Who is the cleaning lady?
500
This was Franz's mother's job.
What is merchant?
500
This mental disorder heavily impacted Kafka's outlook on life and gives his writing a dark tone.
What is depression?