Change In The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

     Throughout the story there is a metamorphosis that is taking place in his home. He has traded places with the family and is now living the life they had previously embelished in. His father begins to work along with his sister and his mother must now work and do the cooking and cleaning. Gregor on the other hand does nothing but daydream, crawl, and nap through his days. One ironic statement from his sister “He must go, if this were Gregor he would have realized long ago human beings can’t live with such a creature, he’d have gone away one his own accord. This creature persecutes us, drives away our lodgers, obviously wants the whole apartment to himself, and would have us all sleep in the gutter.” How selfish of her, had he not taken care of them and he was not the only one working

Everyone has people they depend on. People that he or she knows will always be there when they’re needed. But what happens when those people just don’t show up or just all of a sudden stop caring? The feeling of loneliness can break down a person’s character and reduce him to a shell, or in this case and exoskeleton, of who he once was. We can see this in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. When Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed into a giant beetle-like creature, what he needs more than anything is the love and support of his family, but he disgusts them. They shut him up in his room so that no one can see him. They are ashamed of him, and quickly forget that he was part of their own flesh and blood. All that they can see is the monster that appears on the on the outside. Gregor’s sister and parents betray his love for them and leave him feeling lonely in the most terrifying and desperate time of his life.

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.

Change plays a major role in one's life. It is what makes one’s life unique and different. In the novel, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa, the protagonist, initially appears as a respectful young man working as a traveling salesman to pay off his family debts and provide for his family. But then Gregor goes through a transformation that turns him into a gigantic insect. Even though Gregor’s sister, father, and mother undergo many changes, the most significant transformation that occurs in the story is the change in Gregor, from an ordinary working man to a gigantic insect. This initial transformation becomes only the first impulse, which causes a lot of changes in his external and internal world along with forcing him to adapt to his new position in the family.

Each member of a family has certain roles, and when those roles are tested, the ideals of the family shifts, altering the family at its core. Family is normally something you should be able to come back to at the end of the day and be at ease with their company, but what if your family and household is your own personal prison, with the struggles of daily life piling upon you? The roles given to a member of the family could rage from the most menial task, like taking out the garbage, to something as strenuous as earning the entire family’s income. When everything goes as planned, the family seems to run like a well oiled machine, but when a member of a family is indisposed and unable to complete their given role or task, who will take their

In a family setting, it is normal to become attached to our surroundings and become accustomed to our day to day lives. The ill effects that change can have on a family, however, can cause them to act erratically. In Franz Kafka’s signature story, The Metamorphosis, the main character Gregor finds that during a bad dream, he has awoken transformed into a bug-like creature; his family reacts to his transformation not with compassion and a search for resolution, but rather with shame and neglect, leaving Gregor helpless in his situation. Because of his family’s reluctance to change, Gregor perished. Changes can be destructive and lead to chronic problems if not properly addressed; only when changes are dealt with can life resume as normal.

The Menace of Expectations In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, he describes a huge life change for a man named Gregor. One day, Gregor wakes up and finds himself transformed into a bug. Scholars have tirelessly debated whether Gregor transforms into an actual bug or a figurative bug. State aside, it is impossible, unrealistic, to think that a man can one day become a bug. Gregor becoming a literal bug is more extreme than if he would wake up just “think” that he is a bug.

Many views of existentialism are exposed in Kafka's Metamorphosis. One of these main views is alienation or estrangement which is demonstrated by Gregor's relationship with his family, his social life, and the way he lives his life after the metamorphosis. Namely, it suggests that man is reduced to an insect by the modern world and his family; human nature is completely self absorbed. Kafka reflects a belief that the more generous and selfless one is, the worse one is treated. This view is in direct conflict with the way things should be; man, specifically Gregor should be treated in accordance to his actions. Gregor should be greatly beloved by his family regardless of his state. This idea is displayed in three separate themes. First,

A young man named Peter Pan once said, “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” The same ideology relates to the theory that explains how Gregor Samsa turned into an insect in The Metamorphosis. There isn’t much concrete evidence to explain how magic works or how Gregor turned into a bug however, Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, is able to reveal the underlying truth behind Gregor Samsa’s past, as he now lives his life in the form of insect. He spends his days working as a traveling salesman to pay off his parents’ debt whilst disregarding his own. The life Gregor Samsa lived was more than just pure psychosis, instead magic was able to alter the reality he lived by manifesting itself into

So I read the book Metamorphosis and I did not like it very much. To me it was very boring. The book is about a man named Gregor. He is a traveling salesmen who makes all the money for his family. Gregor does not like his job working as a traveling salesmen. If his family did not depend on the income so much, then he would’ve quit his job. One day he wakes up in his bed and finds that he has turned into a large insect. Gregor is a bit upset and confused about why he turned into an insect. He struggles to get his new large body out of bed as he realizes that he is late for his job. Gregor's mother, father, and sister knock on his locked bedroom door to try to get him out of bed for his job. While Gregor gets out of bed, he hears his office manager

In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explains a story about a hardworking man named Gregor, the main provider for the family, who mysteriously turns into a bug overnight. His transformation had several negative reactions toward the man and caused little positivity in his life. Changes can affect one’s life or even many others throughout the actions or reactions given out. Random changes can affect positively or negatively towards life depending on how the situation is handled.

In the novel, Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka revealed some of the struggles that people face and some of the struggles he faced in his own lifetime. The novel began with a young man, Gregor Samsa, who had been working hard to pay off his family's debt. Most of the time Gregor was sad, lonely, and underappreciated by his family and his boss. When Gregor suddenly woke up as a cockroach, Kafka shows that Gregor has been treated like a bug his whole entire adult life by the people that are supposed to be loving, but now that his physical appearance has changed it is more apparent. Most of Gregor’s life he had sacrificed his own happiness for the well being of his families, but his family didn't give anything back to him, because of this Gregor, just like Kafka is isolated from having a normal life in the outside world. As the novel progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that Gregor was being treated almost as if he was a bug his whole life. Gregor has been working a job that he hates, but he has no choice because in order for his

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a representation of people's separation from society and their inability to have self-ruling power over their lives. Gregor Samsa, the protagonist, spends most of his adult life working hard in order to pay off his family’s debt; however, his family exploits and uses him for their financial needs. "Oh God," he thought, "What a grueling job I've picked! […] I've got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate” (Kafka 3-4). Kafka's outlook of society is unwelcoming as well as dehumanizing, in which makes sense as to why Gregor turned into a bug.

Kafka was critical in bringing the new outlook on modern culture and particularly on modern man. Franz Kafka studied the modern man in the face of contemporary culture, and how he was steadfast in retaining his spirituality and identity, and gravitate towards authenticity and happiness. However, Kafka saw how the dehumanizing forces of industrialization and capitalism in the post- the WWI Europe posed a challenge to the modern man. Modern culture can be viewed tolerating and open to all. To Franz Kafka, modern culture coupled with technology is fast changing, and man has to maintain his self-consciousness in order not lose his spirituality and identity amidst these changes (Wintle pp. 708-710). Hence, as modern culture changes with the changing technology, religions are poised to change too, which presents fears to a man about losing his spirituality and identity upon embracing the modern culture. Interestingly, Kafka was mystical in his writings, with a keen interest in themes such as metamorphosis, existential and identity. If we look at “The Metamorphosis,” we can view the idea of how the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and industrialism are indicated within the writings. Kafka contends we become dehumanized with buying power and working too much. The transformation of Gregor seems to indicate a denial of responsibility to the changing forms of society’s conventions and values.

Throughout literary history, certain authors are so unique and fresh in their approach to the written word that they come to embody a genre. Franz Kafka is one such author; “Die Verwandlung” or “The Metamorphosis” is one of his works that helped coin the term “Kafkaesque.” Through this novella, Kafka addresses the timeless theme of people exploit-ing others as a means to an end. He demonstrates this point through showing that a family’s unhealthy dependence on the main character results in that character’s dependence on the family.