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The Metamorphosis is a novella, a short novel, written by Franz Kafka. This story is about a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who transforms into a enormous bug overnight. Because of this transformation, Gregor cannot work off the debt his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa, owe to his boss. Now the family is left to provide for themselves, leaving Gregor a burden on the family because he is no longer useful to them. Psychoanalytic criticism is using the author’s personality, state of mind, feelings and desires to better understand their works. Looking at The Metamorphosis through a psychoanalytic lens, you can see that Kafka’s difficult relationship with his father is reflected in his writings using symbolism, metaphors, and metonymy. The intended
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The term metamorphosis means a major change of someone or something into something new in terms of structure, substance and appearance. Franz Kafka of The Metamorphosis incorporates all three changes to Gregor Samsa. Prior to Gregor’s metamorphosis, Gregor was the backbone of the family who venerated him. As the only working family member, Gregor tries his best to provide comfort for his family, often at his personal expense. However, when Gregor Samsa transforms from a human to a bug, he upsets the social hierarchy of the family.

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The metamorphoses, that goes on in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphoses” is not talking about Gregor Samsa’s physical change. Despite Gregor changing from a human into a bug, literally in the first sentence of the book, there is a copious amounts of metamorphoses to each of the main Characters represented in the book. In other words, not only does Gregor, but also, his sister Grete, his father, and partially even the three renters go through some kind of metamorphosis. Gregor himself, the original breadwinner of the family, is now a bug. However, that doesn’t phase him.

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To conclude, Kafka, a man who, when he writes, makes us notice the toxic relationship that he had with his family (specially with his father) and that he was follower of Marxist ideas among others. Some concepts of his are conveyed by the presence of inanimate objects in his writing where the coach, the food, the father´s uniform and the furniture symbolizes each a different thought. Not only he used inanimate objects to express ideas but to further develop character facets and behaviors. Therefore, the reader, connects himself with the story and believe what his/her eyes read because those behaviors and ideas conveyed and symbolized by these inanimate objects give a sense of realism to the unrealistic and impossible

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In Franz Kafka's novella, "The Metamorphosis," the masterful use of symbols weaves a rich tapestry of themes and emotions, providing profound insights into the human condition. Throughout the narrative, several symbols are strategically employed to connect with central themes such as alienation, identity, and human experience. One of the most potent symbols in the novella is Gregor Samsa's transformation into a giant insect. This surreal metamorphosis serves as a striking metaphor for the alienation and estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society.

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a pronounced German novelist and short story writer, he is very well known as one of the main figures of 20th-century fiction (Reference). His work, which vehemence elements of pragmatism and the imaginary, naturally features isolated characters faced by weird or surrealistic predicaments and unintelligible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been inferred as exploring themes of estrangement, existential concern, fault, and incongruity (Reference). The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka 's (1916) describing a young salesman’s transformation from human being into giant creature and relating his consequent experiences within his family circle. "Metamorphosis," reflect a recognition on the part

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Many authors seek to master the vaunted art of leaving things to the imagination and still subtly deliver a message. Author Franz Kafka demonstrates his expertise in said skill through the first chapter of his novella The Metamorphosis. The main character Gregor, comatosely awakens to find himself plaintively transformed into a bug, yet his only anguish is arriving to work on time (not that he has grown four more limbs and antennae). At first glance readers brush off the nonchalant reaction and view it as a brusque plot device; however reading between the lines exposes a deeper question: Why was he so lackadaisical towards his new form, and was being a vermin that different from his current status? Kafka purposely embeds these questions into

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The story written embodies Kafka`s perception of life. Therefore, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka entails the life he witnesses in his personal life and common conceptions of life today. The Metamorphosis narrated by a human transformed into a bug in the first sentence, but what this bug goes through expresses how society treats the sick. The bug or Gregor represents a person(Man) who is going through depression. Because the bug has been ostracized from society and from the people who should love him...family.

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“The Metamorphosis” is a novel written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. Existentialism, expressionism, marxism and freudian theory are some well known philosophical movements which have an influence on the book. The novel is about a boy named Gregor Samsa who is a hardworking boy who passes all days working to maintain his family until one day he is transformed into a “ monstrous verminous bug” (Kafka, Page 3). To start, money plays a very important role in the novel because it is considered one of the main themes due to the big plot; Gregor transforming into a bug brought as consequence Gregor being enable to work causing problems with the family. In other words, the novel shows how the treatment Gregor received changed

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Franz Kafka displays the concept of characters bringing an insight into ourselves and the real world in The Metamorphosis. He does this by exploring the transformations of each character through the changes in their physical appearance, environment and the ways that the characters adjust to new situations. Kafka has chosen the character Gregor Samsa to show us that his change into a bug is a representation of how society treats us and how we conform to the expectations of society in our capitalist world. The Metamorphosis has further enforced the idea that ‘characters offer a window into ourselves and the world’ is true.

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