Misinterpretations In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

Throughout The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka illustrates a fictional, yet very realistic and applicable situation in which the main character, Gregor, ultimately struggles with understanding the differences in true intent and personal interpretations. Times such as these become evident when they begin to affect our day-to-day social, cultural, or most common: political lives. Although an outward appearance often times leads to the creation of assumptions, these opinions should not cause misinterpretations of that individual's priorities and views of others.
Although Gregor’s devolution into an insect greatly affected his complexion, it had little effect on his main priority: his family. Gregor, the sole provider for his family- who is at the

His unusually lazy behavior one morning (after Gregor’s transformation) prompted his family to wonder and call the manager to check on him. Gregor quickly dismissed all excuses- despite the fact that he is literally inhuman- and notifies his manager that he will take the eight o’clock train; this left his manager confused and uneasy (12). Gregor expressed his immediate thought: “he must on no account let the manager go away in this mood if his position in the firm were not to be jeopardized in the extreme” (17). His selflessness was so extreme that Gregor put his family's financial situation before his own grave medical emergency. Unfortunately, his sincere concerns for his family go unnoticed due to this transformation. After their initial scare, Gregor’s family’s top priority is to figure out what to do with this creature, rather than what they could be doing to help Gregor. As the book progresses, he becomes emotionally less human; Instead of delaying and/or preventing this, Gregor’s family found themselves expediting it. “Even now he had been on the verge of forgetting [his human past]... Nothing should be removed; everything had to

Jonathan Haidt, a professor from the University of Virginia, composed an interesting survey pertaining to six core moral values. These answers helped determine which side of the political spectrum does the individual hold highly and how much would it take to make compromises with these beliefs. Continuing with this study, Haidt took one step forward by asking each individual to re-answer each question in the eyes of the opposing political views. With convincing evidence, Haidt concluded that conservatives understand the mindset of liberals much better than liberals understand the mindset of conservatives. Tina Korbe explores the two major reasons scholars believe this occurs: the prominent aspect of liberalism in the media as well as the fact that both ends speak a very different language. With some of the most popular news networks, such as CNN, New York Times, and NPR, adding left-winged bias to current issues (Pew Research Center) as well as the long and most recent influence of Barack Obama, conservatives are constantly informed of these views leaving little to no room for liberals to understand the more conservative side of things. This tends to add fuel to the fire of dislike for the other standpoint further deepening the already present misunderstandings of each other. Let the simple word “just”