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Kafka's Metamorphosis

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In the metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, there are significant actions and transformations which make the story sad, and strange with a happy ending. Explanations that are dramatic events that intensify the excitement of all these actions. Reality and reflection play an important role in this story because the events that happened could be applied and assimilated with modern society. The story is very sad and realistic, some of the things that are related in Kafka's story can be found in modern families today. Gregor was a man who sacrificed himself working to pay his father's debts, instead off on his own where he could prospered. Gregor never was recognized by his family of all the efforts that he did, he was taken for granted and he was expected …show more content…

Gregor was such an isolated and poor person that he cut the picture of the lady with the fur or a magazine to hang on the wall, to remind him of better things. Gregor's metamorphosis into a cockroach is strange but at the same time is reasonable, because insects as beetle, but or cockroaches are associated with old dirty houses, and trash. If Gregor would have been a cat or a dog, his parents would not considered him so disgusting and they would not have rejected him. But in this case, Gregor is a bug and his parents really thought that a giant cockroach is something that must be hidden. This kind of things happens everyday. not the strange thing as transformation into a bug, but the fact that people are not what they seem to be like people who dress or act in certain way. A lot of people are misunderstood and are judged the wrong …show more content…

he got used to his food, his living under the couch, climbing in the ceilings, and in certain way he enjoyed those things. In the real world this is the same with a lot people for instance, when a person starts to begin a new life in a different country, like or not, people must get used to new thins, food and lifestyle for their own benefits and try to enjoy as Gregor did. At the end of the Kafka's story, Gregor Samsa dies and with him dies the huge insect too. But with the end of this transformation starts a new happy one. For instance, Gregor family feels a big sense of relief like if their burden has been lifted off them, and they can start a new life. Grete in the end of the story is a young woman who is willing to start her career as a musician. All of them are happy, including Gregor himself who stops all this sufferings and rejections from his family. Samsa could be viewed in modern society as someone who hated his job and everyone around him, but he did not think that the human society was very human at all. Society is a very selfish place, filled with self-centered people, this is how Gregor came to be an insect to his family; Gregor was a big machine and he came to be recognized when necessity came to the house. This story is very realistic and sad at the same time. It should be applied in society to learn how to recognize when people are worth and appreciate them for

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Gregor’s initial reaction to his transformation shows his preoccupation with work. His confusion over his radical transformation does not last long, quickly becoming concerned with work and disregarding that he woke up physically transformed into a monstrous vermin. Immediately after realizing he had transformed, Gregor explains, “Well, I haven’t given up hope completely; once I’ve gotten the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to [the boss] that will probably take another five to six years… But for the time being I’d better get up, since my train leaves at five” (4). The quick transition of Gregor’s thoughts from the initial shock to his economic duties reveals his ironic nonchalant attitude towards his nonsensical transformation and

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He is willing to take on anyone in order to support his family, which plays into the theme of family duty. Also, Gregor’s determination and military experience (pg 12) is displayed in his plan making and strategizing to capture his manager. The loyalty to his family, displayed by working and trying his best to keep a job he doesn’t want, gives insight into Gregor’s character. The unhealthy relationship Gregor has with his family is very common for a character in Franz Kafka’s book. His own tumultuous relation reflected onto his characters lives.

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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

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Gregor was turned into a bug “’ Did you understand even a single word?’ … “‘That was an animals voice,”’ (Kafka 23). In this quote Gregor’s family first realized that he was not himself. Gregor used to be a businessman and unlike Victor his whole body changed from a human to a bug.

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Another example in the story is how he could no longer work off the family debt after being changed to a cockroach. The story tells the reader how in Gregor’s society, the son, which is him, has to work and make money for their parents.

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From the time Mr. Samsa began working after Gregor could no longer support the family financially, his confidence, determination and authority have grown to an extent where the family now looks up to him as he will give all his effort to better their situation. Furthermore, Gregor is no longer worthy or of interest to the family since has lost all of his humanity, “The apple remained imbedded in his flesh...reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy...on the contrary, it was the commandment of family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more," (Kafka 20). This demonstrates Mr. Samsa's vicious attitude towards Gregor and how this family duty does not involve love or affection but is rather an obligation which clearly illustrates the absence of a father and son

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As the story progresses, Gregor becomes aware of his waning humanity because of his lack of interaction with the other members of the family. His degradation as a human, however, began before his physical transformation, due to his ceaseless devotion to work. Informing the audience of the Samsa family’s backstory, at one point the narrator states that “They had been good times and they had never come again, at least not with the same splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, although there was no longer much warm affection given in return” (Samsa 15).

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On the surface, the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is about a man who becomes disabled from working after waking up one day to find himself turned into a monster of some sorts. Through the dynamic between Samsa and his family and their shared familial roles, as well as the relationship between Samsa and his work, Kafka seems to be making commentary on the futility of life, and how meaningless desperate actions are in the unforgiving cold world. This emptiness can be seen first when Samsa first wakes up and finds himself a vermin, and reflects on his job. It seems that his main purpose for living is to work and eventually pay off the debt his parents have accumulated. He has other goals in life as well, from sending his sister to a conservatory,

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At the end of the story it seems as if Gregor paid the greatest price

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The Metamorphosis is a short story penned by the Czech author Franz Kafka. It is about a young man by the name of Gregor Samsa, who one morning found that he took the shape of a hideous bug. Some critics might find the short story satirical in some ways, but in truth, the author wrote the story as a means to highlight the modern tribulations that men of Gregor's position often had to go through. The Metamorphosis is a short story that details the true nature of man when they fall subject to a monotonous way of life, instead of enjoying life as it comes.

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Even though Gregor despises his job, he diligently continues to work the mundane job so that he can provide for his family – supporting his feeble parents and attempting to send his beloved sister to the conservatory. On the contrary, his family cares for Gregor after his radical change only so far as duty seems to

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He became embodied by his weak form and closed off to the real world, literally. Gregor’s influence on his family also allowed his father to grow as an individual and appear superior when dressing within his

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The surrealism genre is often known to be “Kafkaesque”, and for good reason. Franz Kafka is a primary creator of surrealism. An example of surrealism in “The Metamorphosis” is Gregor’s complete apathy towards his transformation. Rather than ruminating about his situation or going into shock, he is more concerned with comparatively diminutive issues-such as being late for work and his father’s reason for not perusing the newspaper in his normal fashion. His subconscious amelioration serves as a hallmark of surrealism.

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“The Metamorphosis” about Gregor, who dedicates his life to his family and work. He then gets transformed into a helpless insect. When Gregor becomes an insect he begins to discover himself and understand the world around him better. “The Metamorphosis” is an existential view which is a person has complete freedom to determine his or her own fate. For example, Gregor.

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The content never clarifies why Gregor changes, fitting with Kafka 's significant enthusiasm for the irregular, sad silliness of life. The sudden change likewise demonstrates the shortcoming of the psyche, which can 't control the physical reality of the body. When he first perceives his change, he doesn 't show up fundamentally troubled by it, and treats it very nearly like any customary unsettling influence to his rest, as though it were not by any means strange. As the story advances, he stays concentrated on generally standard concerns, for example, losing his occupation, his physical solace, and his family 's money related circumstance. We likewise start to take in the points of interest of Gregor 's human life.

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