Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
The traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect-life creature. It is the story of his attempts to come to terms with this new condition, and how his family deal with the creature that repels them in horror.
Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, a German Jew. He died in 1924. He had a very complex relationship with his father. The novella is an exploration of the threatened individual and the feeling of guilt.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)