The novella, The Metamorphosis is about the life of a young man, Gregor, who awakens one day only to find out he is a huge vermin. Gregor is not really a bug. He is infact hiding that he is Jewish. This is a metaphor for unveiling that Gregor is Jewish. This is appeared by how Mr.Samsa, Gregor's dad, treats him, and how he is compelled to be secluded and what the apple wedged up in Gregor's back represents. The entire theme/subject with this examination is anti-semitism which is bias towards Jewish individuals. The setting is around the 1930's which is additionally when Adolf Hitler, a German tyrant, was ascending to control. He impacted the counter semitic perspective and assessments to perfect his Aryan race!
Gregor’s dad speaks to society’s perspectives at the time which were that Jews were not human beings at all, by the way they were treated. Society had no sensitivity to Jewish individuals. They treated Jewish individuals like junk. At the point when Mr.Samsa first looks at his child alarmingly and absolutely stunned. At the point when Gregor leaves his room Mr.Samsa “seized in his right hand the manager’s cane...picked up in his left hand a heavy newspaper from the table, and stamping his feet, started brandishing the cane and
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Much like the Jewish community, he is mistreated and disowned by his father who is a symbolic representation of society’s ideals in the early 1930s. He begins to be isolated by his family mainly his sister/mother who remove materials from his room while leaving him inside showing the comparison to Nazi soldiers who robbed Jews of their valuables and money. This shows the isolation created for Jews as they are looked at differently and mistreated as innocent human being. Lastly, the apple stuck in Gregor’s back shows the suffering that Jews had to go through carrying the burden and pain along as they are discriminated