Graphic Novels about Metamorphosis

Peter Kuper's Metamorphosis

Peter Kuper

What do graphic novels of Metamorphosis add to the text?
Compare one panel or page to Kafka's text to illustrate how it is an interpretation?

Student Blog posts on graphic novels of Metamorphosis

The illustration given in the graphic novel isn't exactly what I had in mind of Gregor as an insect. For one, I imagined Gregor as a typical insect, without a face or any human like physical qualities

confirming what I already felt.  Of course, they are exaggerated, but, thats what cartoons are meant to be.  They are also frightening.

Kafka is the most sympathetic to Gregor.  First, he makes the reader almost feel sympathetic for Gregor by using certain words that portray a feeling of remorse for the bug.  However, it is important to also take into consideration that Gregor's family has treated him like an animal his whole life,

Kafka is more sympathetic toward Gregor

Kuper's version is darker and more vivid. Kuper is more sympathetic towards Gregor because he illustrates Gregor as being stuck in a dead-end job. Kafka focuses more on the conformist side of Gregor instead of focusing on the reasons why he enjoys conformity.

Kuper shows the most sympathy towards Gregor because of the way he shows each characters distinct facial expressions.

think that Kuper's illustrations are both humorous and frightening. They are so overly exaggerated that they completely aid in understanding the humor and almost unreal aspect of the situation, yet they also manage to capture each person's reaction very accurately.

I had a specific image in my head of what Gregor looked like, but seeing the graphic novel definitely changed my view.

The fact that Gregor is drawn with a human head greatly takes away from his transformation and undermines my original picture of him. I don't think that Kafka ever intended for Gregor to be part human and part bug. If Gregor did still have a human head in Metamorphosis, the family would probably not have been as disgusted by his appearance and then would have been more likely to talk to him.