Metamorphosis recap

Plot summary:

• Normal family (1)
• Gregor feels tired (2)
• Parents force him to work but Greta thinks he shouldn't (3)
• Gregor goes to bed
• Family gets panicky and call Gregor but he doesn't come down (4)
• Gregor wakes up to find he is a dung beetle
• Family can't open door and can't communicate with Gregor but just hear him make loud noises (5)
• Chief Clerk comes as he thinks this is unusual behaviour for Gregor as he is normally a good worker
• Family see Gregor and Chief Clerk leaves (6)
• They try to see what food Gregor likes (7)
• They move Gregor's furniture (8)
• Father reveals he had put Gregor's saved money into investments and that had lied about being ill to avoid going to work
• Greta thinks about getting a job
• Father doesn't think Gregor is his son any more and throws apple which lodges in Gregor's back as the father now has to get a job
• Gregor will no longer eat anything
• Father organises lodgers who have pig like faces to show their greed as are very demanding (9)
• Lodgers hear then see Gregor so decide to leave
• Greta plays violin which Gregor does not like
• Gregor dies as becomes too ill (10)
• Parents now focus on getting Greta a husband and barely grieve for their son

Tasks:

• Performed ten tableaux to show main stages of story (numbers by corresponding events above)
• Devised two contrasting scenes showing family life in 1960s and family life now. Scene 1 involved children playing quiet card game, mother getting them to look nice for when the father comes home, children greeting father in turn, children moving off sofa to allow room for father and then the father reading a paper and the scene ending by the father asking what's for dinner. Scene 2 involved children on phone, games console and lounging on sofa, children arguing over who should open the door when both parents come home, children barely bothering to say hello to parents as too interested in other things, father getting angry and telling them to do their homework however children carry on when he's gone and ends with all children asking what's for dinner and parents shouting takeaway.