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Shafika Taylor Per.3 IB English May 11, 2005 World Literature Assignment 1 Comparative Essay: Metamorphosis and Oedipus Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, although written in completely different time periods and by different authors, still deal with similar issues. One issue that they have in common is family relationships, how they are broken, then connected again. Gregor from Metamorphosis has a strong love for his sister and counts on her to be there for him, but when the most horrific thing happens to him, surprisingly it is his mother who cares for him more. And Oedipus, in Oedipus Rex, his mother rejects him at birth, but ironically takes him in later as her husband. Gregor and Oedipus had very different relationships with their families yet eventually or the inability to perceive reality. The relationship that Gregor and Oedipus had with their mothers shows how the position or family member's status really...

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