The Metamorphosis.

I will be looking at Franz Kafta’s The Metamorphosis. The theatre adaptations of the story by Steven Berkoff have become a popular choice and are easy to relate to, with enough direction for great story telling yet enough freedom to allow me to fix my own sub-genre choices to it.

The scene I have chosen is The Violin Scene. A summary of the story can be found here http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/metamorph/summary.html

Gregor Samsa’s sister Grete is playing the violin and He decides to come downstairs, enthralled by the music, but his insect appearance shocks the lodgers of the house and he goes back into his room. This is to be the end of Gregor, with his family deciding he must be abandoned. He has driven away his family’s only means of survival and they are irate, wanting the creature out of their lives.