Select the correct answer which theme is best reflected in this excerpt from franz kafka's the metamorphosis? because of his injuries, gregor had lost much of his mobility-probably permanently. he had been reduced to the condition of an ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across his room-crawling over the ceiling was out of the question--but this deterioration in his condition was fully in his opinion) made up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening he got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their conversation with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite differently from before. a isolation b. c. d. persecution betrayal freedom e bitterness

sis. it's been a while since a read that and had that class so i can't answer for u

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.