Metamorphosis is novel by Franz Kafka written in the 1900’s, it is about a man, Gregor Samsa, who one morning woke up to find himself transformed into a giant insect but the only thing he was worried about was getting to work on time. Metamorphosis was one of the book that was published when Kafka was alive, because he died young he didn’t live to see all of his works being published. Kafka’s writing is identified as Kafkaesque, this term has entered the vernacular to describe having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. Kafka shows isolation by showing changes physically and emotionally The style of the book epitomizes Kafka's writing. It was common for Kafka to present an impossible situation, like Gregor’s transformation …show more content…
His mother wasn’t allowed see him because of the ‘state’ he was in, only the sister, Grete would come sometimes to give food but other than that he had no human contact and was prisoned in his small room, with figuratively speaking no way out, the physical form for caused Gregor and his family to being further disconnected. Gregor was the bread winner of his family, and it is implied that his family doesn’t really care for him but just saw him as the money maker for them. And so, this isolation didn’t come with the transformation but it was always there in Gregor’s life, he so to say only lived with his family they hardly gave him the attention of a loved …show more content…
Kafka doesn’t show instant death with Gregor, he slowly kills him. He gradually starts to lose his eye sight, he has numerous injuries, like the pain in his side when he first woke up. He had an apple lodged in his back which was left there, which is what finally killed him. He was cut by a piece of glass from an alcohol bottle, and was bleeding profusely when he tried to get into his room and got stuck in the door. The Metamorphosis could be one of Kafka’s imaginations of his own death that is carefully disguised and elaborated through literature, he once contemplated suicide as