Metamorphosis
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| [[Image:Les Poires.jpg|200px|thumb|right|''[[Les Poires]]'', as sold separately to cover the expenses of a trial of [[Le Charivari]]]] | [[Image:Les Poires.jpg|200px|thumb|right|''[[Les Poires]]'', as sold separately to cover the expenses of a trial of [[Le Charivari]]]] | ||
| - | [[Image:Danae.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Danaë (Klimt painting)|Danae]]'' ([[1907]]-[[1908|08]]) by [[Gustav Klimt]] depicting [[Zeus]], the master of [[metamorphosis]], as a [[golden shower]].]] | ||
| - | [[Image:Heliades's metamorphosis into a tree.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Heliades]]' metamorphosis into a [[tree]]. [[Metamorphosis]] is a common [[horror|horror trope]].]] | ||
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| '''Metamorphosis''' is a [[biological process]] by which an [[animal]] physically [[developmental biology|develops]] after [[birth]] or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Some [[insect]]s as well as other species undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of [[habitat (ecology)|habitat]] or [[behaviour]]. | '''Metamorphosis''' is a [[biological process]] by which an [[animal]] physically [[developmental biology|develops]] after [[birth]] or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Some [[insect]]s as well as other species undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of [[habitat (ecology)|habitat]] or [[behaviour]]. | ||
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| :''[[Metamorphosis (disambiguation)]]'' | :''[[Metamorphosis (disambiguation)]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Danaë (Klimt painting)|Danae]]'' by Gustav Klimt | ||
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| *[[Shapeshifting]] | *[[Shapeshifting]] | ||
| *[[Transmogrification]] | *[[Transmogrification]] | ||
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"When they had eaten and drunk to their hearts' content, she waved her wand over them, and at once the poor wretches were changed into grunting pigs, which she shut up in pigsties and threw acorns and other food fit for swine before them. Although thus transformed and covered with bristles, they still retained the human mind."--Odyssey "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked."--The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka |
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Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Some insects as well as other species undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of habitat or behaviour.
Metamorphosis as a trope
Metamorphoses of any kind have been popular since Circe in Odysseus and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Metamorphosis is a frequently used horror trope which can take many forms: crosses between humans and plants, objects and humans, etc…
Edith Hamilton gathered numerous examples of metamorphoses in her book Mythology (1942).
A particular variety of metamorphosis is people turned into furniture. Two stories in which humans transform into chairs make use of this plot device: the French libertine novel The Sofa (1742) by Crébillon fils and the Japanese short story The Human Chair (1925) by Edogawa Rampo. In both stories a man becomes a sofa, in the former quite literally so (by a curse), in the latter, a man hides in sofa to feel the persons who sit in him.
The archetypical metamorphosis story is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka in which a man wakes up to find himself transformed into a vermin.
In cinema it has remained a popular trope, for example in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) by Roger Corman a plant becomes a carnivore, and after it has eaten a number of people, the last buds of the plant open and reveal the faces of the people it has eaten.
See also
- Danae by Gustav Klimt
- Heliades' metamorphosis into a tree
- Shapeshifting
- Transmogrification
- Metamorphoses
- Pygmalion (mythology)
- The Metamorphosis by Kafka
- List of films about possessed or sentient inanimate objects
- Machiavelli's Golden Ass
- Developmental biology
- Direct development
- Gosner stage
- Hypermetamorphosis
- Morphogenesis
- Metamorphosis of Plants by Goethe
