Great Works in English. This paper addresses the main protagonists of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis", and Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is useful and successful social individuals before they fall into disillusionment, depression, rebellion and despair, even criminality in the case of the tragic character of "Things Fall Apart.". Two things they share and lead them to elect their own moral and spiritual disintegration are their being accomplished leaders of their social and family situations and their being male. Pages: 6 Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed Filename: 30 Great Works English.doc Price: 53.70