how does te form+ なる(ものか) work?


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here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnZr6.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnZr6.png)
i pretty much know what it means, but i wanna know the nuance, what the person
tries to actually say. what the なる here does??




This なる is fundamentally the same なる as in ～てはならない. For details, see [Origin
of ~なければ ならない](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11788/5010)

ものか is a rhetorical question version of
[ものだ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/43083/5010).

  * くたばってはならない。  
I must not drop dead.

  * くたばってはなるものか。 = くたばってなるものか。  
How should I drop dead?

