Alienation from oneself

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

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Topic

Transformation Change Alienation from oneself Alienation

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

The Metamorphosis

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

German

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Verlag, 1915, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by Susan Bernofsky. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ch. 1.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Living inauthentically

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Alienation

Author

H.G. Wells

Source

The War of the Worlds

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wells, H. G. "The War of the Worlds." Pearson's Magazine/Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1897.

Current Citation

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Signet, 2007, ch. 7.

How comes it
That thou art then estranged from thyself?

William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Alienation

Speaker

Adriana

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Comedy of Errors

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. 1594, Gray's Inn Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Comedy of Errors." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.