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How Is Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis Related To District 9?

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The short story “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, is about a man named Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman who woke up in his bed one day to find that his body was transformed into a huge insect, a cockroach. Gregor battled himself trying to accept his new body and also tried handling with his hideous and selfish family. The movie “District 9” by Neill Blomkamp is about aliens who arrived on earth in South Africa. The aliens did not go to Earth to be destructive, gain control or conquer the planet, but, to find refuge from their home planet. The government separated the species, human/aliens. District 9 was the area where the aliens were populated. Wikus Van De Merwe, an agent from a company was sent to District 9 to drive out the aliens. During his time being …show more content…

In The Metamorphosis, Kafka says, “But Gregor did not have any notion of wishing to create problems for anyone and certainly not for his sister”, this line suggests that even though he transformed into an insect, he really never meant to create problems among his family and would absolutely do anything to gain acceptance from his family, mostly especially his sister. In District 9, after Wikus’s wife receives fake news about his relationship with aliens she says, “I can’t do this anymore, I don’t know what to believe. Is this true?” But Wikus was so hopeless and loved his wife so much that he tried cutting off his alien arm off to appear “human” again for her just because he loves her so much and would do anything to be with her again. Nevertheless, in the end of the film he fully transformed into an alien and the mothership left. Wikus made a rose of out metal and left it in their home, his love for Tania is what keeps her going. This proves no matter what form the main characters evolved into, they both loved the women in their lives

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In The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka cruelty is what stemmed Gregor’s change into a large bug and subconsciously motivated him to end his life. Gregor’s new form was a depiction of how he already felt in his household, trapped, voiceless, and small. As Gregor’s metamorphosis developed so did the characters cruelty which affected both the perpetrators and the victims. The Samasa family’s cruelty was demonstrated both physically and mentally by Gregor’s father driving him back into his room, throwing apples at him and by Grete’s use of the word “it”.

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In the story “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, Gregor, was a boy who was turned into some sort of bug in the beginning of the story. As the story went on, Gregor's family started to isolate him for everything that they did. Towards the ending of the story “The Metamorphosis” Gregor’s family started caring less about him, especially his sister who was trying to help him. In Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis” Gregor a hard working

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Some of the relationships with his family members began to break immediately after they found out about his metamorphism and others slowly decayed over the course of months. For example, after finding out that his son has transformed into a giant cockroach, Mr. Samsa immediately rejects Gregor and shows no affection for him from that point onwards. This has little to no effect on Gregor, however, as Gregor gets more distressed by any cold behavior exhibited by his mother or sister. In part two, after Grete insisted on removing all the furniture in Gregor’s room, Gregor expresses a kind of wistful sadness over not being able to talk to his mother because of his vermin form, and even entertains the idea of his mother coming in his room occasionally just to talk to him. At the time, this was a strange idea for Gregor to conceive because he was embracing his new cockroach form and didn’t even show himself to Grete when Grete came into his room to clean or give Gregor food.

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Most notably, his reaction is extremely calmer than normal people would be. As a human, Gregor accepted the hardships he faces by his family without complaint. He is a naive and decent person. He works in anonymity without uttering words to earn money for the whole family even he did not even like this “exhausting job he’ve picked on”(p89) since his dad’s failure in business. Similarly, when he first realized he had transformed into an insect, he was not disgusted by his looking and condition, he did not wonder how he turned to an insect and how to transform back to a human.

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The evidence shows that when Gregor transforms into a bug, his parents don’t think of him as their child, but rather a nuisance. Additionally, characterization can also be tied in with the conflict between the characters.

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However, his family never realizes these sacrifices and takes Gregor for granted, ultimately leading to his painful demise. Gregors perpetual devotion to his harsh family represents the unconditional love one feels for their own flesh and blood no matter how wicked they may be. The family's reaction to Gregor’s transformation into a bug demonstrates their lack of compassion for

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Gregor Samsa’s transition from human to vermin was not the only shift that happened through the duration of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The novel is centered around Gregor who wakes up as a vermin, presumably a cockroach, which catalyses a series of emotionally traumatic experiences for him and his family, culminating in Gregor’s death. Yet the most significant change is, in fact, the gender role reversal seen both with Gregor and Grete, his sister, as Gregor becomes more effeminate and Grete becomes more emasculate, directly correlating with their societal and emotional transformation due to Gregor's physical change. From the moment, Gregor wakes up he has transformed. But not just as a vermin.

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Ironically, even though Gregor can no longer formulate words to speak to his family he still understands them clearly as they complain about him in front of him. Even he his new insect body he his made to feel less than he his. The inability to communicate with his family puts Gregor into a predicament where ultimately his life lies in their hands. Aichele and Walsh explains, “Indeed, one central theme of “The Metamorphosis.” like that of much of Kafka’s oeuvre, is the impossibility of understanding.

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The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka writes a story describing a man who works to provide for his family, then takes a strange turn and he dies because he doesn't know what else to do. This is why in the novella Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka the author uses symbolism, diction, and internal dialogue,metaphor to reveal the theme of how change can cause rejection. Firstly, when talking about symbols, we first get a clue that the personality of Gregor is changing because when the story begins “he found that he had been transformed into an enormous bug” (Kafka 11). Even though he wasn't an actual bug the story paints Gregor as a nobody, or someone with no more value.

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Reading the beginning of "Metamorphosis" by Kafka, the reader is confronted with a paradox, the transformation of the hero into a huge bug. This unexpected event remains until the end of the novel, a familial tragedy without seemingly to interest or influence the outside world, where everything keeps going on in normal rhythms. Franz Kafka skilfully integrates an unrealistic event into the real world as we know it. That is to say, Samsa is suddenly transformed into an insect while around him people continue to live and move with reasonable or expected behaviour. The hero, even into his new body, has human feelings and reactions: he sees, he hears, he understands, it is only his body that is no more human.

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With such a title, one might expect that this story will express the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly, but with Kafka’s troubled upbringing, abuse and feelings of being devalued for most of his life, it’s easy to see how Kafka felt the need to symbolically dehumanize himself. Kafka’s choice of human-to-insect transformation exudes self-loathing because there’s nothing lower than a cockroach. While Gregor is the one who took on the grotesque transformation, it’s actually his family’s behavior towards his change which conveys complete hostility. Grete, for one, had enough near the end when she said, “If it were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that it isn't possible for human beings to live with such a creature, and he would have gone away of his own free will” (Kafka). It’s very disheartening knowing that his own family couldn’t handle his transformation when his first thought in the morning was getting to work on time for their

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