Systems of Alienation and the Creation of Monsters in Kafka and Shelley

This literary analysis compares and contrasts Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Shelley's Frankenstein to explore how each writer uses monsters or monstrosity to comment on societal expectations and how social norms distort human nature.

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"This is a rich and insightful discussion that makes it clear you have engaged deeply with the two texts. Your facility with critical analysis comes through strongly throughout this essay. You have your main discussion points down and have populated those paragraphs with textual evidence well; overall, this is an impressive and deep treatment of the two texts and the notion of external and internal monstrosity.

With these higher order elements in good shape, the next area of focus should be clarity, organization, and presentation at the lower order. This includes proofreading to ensure clarity with an eye to punctuation issues (commas) that might be impacting meaning, focusing on streamlining and organization within paragraphs to ensure focus and flow (to take one example, introducing Kafka's background in a topic sentence sets up a promise to the reader that is in a slightly different direction than the paragraph takes; consider incorporating this detail later in the paragraph, perhaps around "Essentially, Kafka demonstrates..."), as well as considering presentation in terms of paragraph length and reader experience (the body paragraphs are rather long). Proper formatting of titles and page numbers for quotes will also help the reader and ensure adherence to the relevant style guide. It's evident you are a strong writer and know the literature, so the next step is about finetuning to meet your reader."

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