Welcome back to Monique’s brilliant blog! The following blogs attached all vary from each other and I took immense pleasure in writing every single piece. My blogs cover different concepts that can be observed in the three novels: “Hunger”, “The Metamorphosis” and “The Stranger”. Below each link will be a paragraph explaining the general picture of what that link contains. Please read the paragraph before visiting the blog. Enjoy!
Coverage:
This blog discusses my response to Kaufman’s article, “Existentialism is a Humanism” and I share my opinions either in alliance to or in opposition against the main principles he argues about, his main principle being “existence comes before the essence.” I link and give some examples of his principles to my life, celebrities, movies and the deliberations of 2012 which I think support his principles very well.
The article written by the BBC News regarding the “Distraction Society” deliberates the power of technology and the mind. Technology distractions such as Facebook are discussed and the distractions from the mind are shared in connection to the novel “Hunger.”
This blog discusses the document “The Hunger Artist” and the similarities he has with the protagonist in “Hunger”. Similarities like pride and anger are clearly noted and supported with quotes from both the book and the document.
This blog is a piece written about a pencil from the perspective of the protagonist of “Hunger”. The piece focuses on the way the protagonist perceives things and the threshold his imagination can reach with a simple object like a pencil.
In the blog titled “Knut Hamsun’s Christian Perversions”, the resemblances of Hamsun’s himself and the protagonist of “Hunger” are pondered over and how Hamsun’s lifestyle and beliefs could be grasped through this.
This mindmap focuses on three major parts of “Hunger”: Existentialism, Literary Techniques and Christianity. Quotes from the book itself as well as other sources are used to support the ideas that are stated.
This blog really showed how I felt about the relationship between Gregor and his father in “The Metamorphosis” which I continuously said was “disgusting” and why I felt this way.
This blog discusses Gregor’s change in character after his transformation. First, this idea is expressed in a formal paragraph in my own style, then the reviewed version is how the same idea was expressed using the VIP format.
This blog deliberates about the term “Kafkaesque” after watching the film “Kafka”. Absurdity and irony are the two main elements that are discussed and references from secondary sources and the film itself are used to support this.
This mindmap is a plan of how I would structure an essay about a theme from “The Stranger”. I first brainstormed ideas then settled on one: Irrationality vs. Rationality which is what my mindmap shows. Many different thesis’s and topic sentences are displayed here.
This blog is my wildcard which I decided to talk about Life, what it is and what it contains.
Depth
This blog discusses what the term “Kafkaesque” could mean after watching the film “Kafka”. The two main aspects I cover are absurdity and irony. I use references to the book series “Harry Potter” and connect and compare the monsters from ‘The Castle’ to slaves in the 20th century. I also use David Wallace’s article, “Laughing with Kafka” to describe Kafka’s humour that is portrayed in the film. Examples from the film are used to show the irony aspect of it.
Interaction
This is a link to Javiera’s blog titled “Kafkaesque” in which I mentioned that Asim’s blog could help develop one piece of her blog which she did not go into such depth in. This became a discussion and we both included parts of Asim’s blog that we liked and agreed on.
Discussion
This is a link to Pooja’s blog titled “His Happy Makes Me Sad”. Pooja, Saumya and I were all involved in this discussion. We mainly deliberated on Gregor’s true character. Pooja believed that he was a weak character overall because of his denial to face the real truth. I too believed that Gregor was a weak and cowardly character to allow his family to manipulate him, however, I thought that Gregor had such great strength and willpower to synthesize his happiness and make himself believe that his parents truly love and appreciate him. Saumya too jumped into this discussion!
Xenoblogging
The Comment Primo: This is a link to Adrienne’s blog in which I found her plan of structuring an essay outstanding! I know that next time I need to write an essay, I will plan it by following her steps because she organized it organized very well!
Wildcard
This is a link to my wildcard in which I decided to talk about What is Life? I discuss the emotions one can feel and how I learnt to appreciate and love life.
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