Morality and Ethics in Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka This essay will look at Franz Kafka’s ‘Die Verwandlung’ and will distinguish between the morality and ethics of Gregor’s family. Did Gregor deserve to die and was his family moral or rather immoral towards Gregor? This essay will include Kant’s categorical imperative number one which is the duties of Gregor’s family members and the analysis of Gregor’s family dynamics. Were the family members just or unjust towards Gregor? Did family members do the right thing and did Gregor deserve what happened to him and his transformation into a bug? This essay will also look at the relationships Gregor had with every character to understand their morality and what changed after Gregor died.
The relationships
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Why did Gregor change into a bug? Did he deserve it or perhaps, it was just a metaphor and Gregor was actually an immoral and lazy person himself? A parasite who suck everything out of people who surrounded him. The mistrust of the manager could be a reflection of Gregor’s laziness and dishonesty. Gregor was not an honest person and could not be trusted for a minute, and had given a good reason why the boss sent the manager to his house immediately when he was late for work. What if Gregor always felt sorry for himself but in reality was an immoral and selfish man who wanted others to see him as the poor man who did everything for his family and did not deserve all what happened to him. Gregor could have been a man who manipulated with his family and used his sickness as an excuse for not going to work. He avoided his manager because he knew that the manager would make him go to work if he saw him as the manager would see clearly that there was nothing wrong with Gregor. Gregor’s mother was blind because mothers always believe their children and Gregor was well aware of this, and knew how to manipulate with his mother. He tricked his sister into believing that he cared about her by paying for her music classes, and later when he decided to stop working, leave her with a feeling that she owes Gregor and should pay back to him. The father was the only person in the family that was not so easily fooled and tricked into Gregor’s manipulative actions. The father saw that Gregor was a lazy person and was faking his sickness so that he would not have to go to work anymore and therefore, the father did not treat him any different. The father was going to have enough of Gregor’s laziness and would have told Gregor to leave the house earlier if the mother and sister would not tell him not to do so. The father lost it the day Gregor attacked the mother and as a punishment threw apples at him. Even after everything that was