Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis

The main character of Kafka’s book, The Metamorphosis, is a normal, everyday salesman named Gregor Samsa who happens to wake up one day only to find that he had suddenly become a hideous insect overnight. Throughout the book, Gregor experiences neglect, disgust, and eventually complete isolation

In Franz Kafka 's Metamorphosis, Grete changes from a child into an adult while also trying to do the opposite with her own family. Gregor’s metamorphosis leaves her family without anybody money to pay for their needs. Consequently, Grete replaces Gregor and begins to cook and clean for her family and go to work. These jobs allow Grete to become more experienced and to mature. Similarly, Grete shows displays these changes by dressing more provocatively and becoming more interested in romance. However, during Grete’s own metamorphosis, she realizes the burden that is (or was) her brother and proves to her family that he is no longer human. Since she wants to keep her family the same as it was before Gregor’s metamorphosis, Grete convinces her parents of this absence of Gregor’s real personality and tries to get rid of him. Thus, Grete’s goal is to keep her family the same as it is before Gregor’s metamorphosis, and to accomplish this, Grete simultaneously goes through her own metamorphosis into an adult woman as a result of the many jobs she takes to keep her family in the same situation as before.

In Franz Kafka’s short novella, The Metamorphosis, he presents the transformation of a man into an insect and the family’s adaptations to this change. Once the proud man of the house who brought in the revenue, Gregor is now an insect that cannot do anything but survive.  At the beginning of the novel, the family tries to accommodate for the insect by feeding him and making him feel as comfortable as possible. However, as time goes on, they grow more and more tiresome of the nuisance living in their home. All the while, the family is adapting to being self-sufficient instead of relying on the hard-working Gregor.  By turning the tables for Gregor, Kafka shows the audience the conversion of a once-helpless family slowly building into an

Much of Franz Kafka's story “The Metamorphosis” spends it's time talking about Gregor as he struggles to live his new life as a bug. Gregor tries to find a analytical reason as to why he has taken upon this form but later on finds on that he has to accept the truth. From being an ordinary travel salesman and provider for his family to a abomination, Gregor becomes hopeless as he can't work or provide for his family. His new life as an insect causes a hardship as he is faced with isolation from his family, transformation, and guilt. Gregor discovers himself when he sees how the world looks at him from his transition from a human to an insect. Gregor's death illustrates the cruelty of society and denial of his family when they can't obtain the things they want in life anymore because of his new form.

Selfishness is omnipresent in the context of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Throughout the story, the Samsa family struggle to balance their own lives and the sympathy for Gregor, the only son, as his transformation from human to cockroach leaves a burden on the family and results in the loss of Gregor’s humanity. Despite the fact that Gregor had been the sole income of the family, the loss of humanity from becoming a cockroach was overwhelming to the family, resulting in selfish tendencies. Kafka displays how humans are unintentionally selfish, especially when the inability to sympathize diminishes through the family’s relationships.

Franz Kafka led a life filled with struggles, particularly evident in his relationship with his father. His experiences and feelings in life are manifested throughout his writings, as the themes in his life dominate the themes of his works, especially so in his novella, The Metamorphosis. Through his extended metaphor of Samsa as a vermin, Kafka illustrates the family dynamic present throughout his life, that of his family, and particularly his father, devaluing and isolating him.

He has completely lost his sense of identity and what it means to be human. Gregor is solely just a puppet used by his elders to get what they want. Just as Gregor’s family uses him for their wants and needs, empires from around the world suppress other people in order to gain wealth and power.

The Metamorphosis, an ironically dejected novella by Franz Kafka tells the story of a family dealing with the fact that their son and brother was turned into a bug. The bug symbolizes the lack of control and acceptance through which Kafka implies that nothing in life is predictable so it's best to remain strong. When Gregor is first turned into a bug he realizes he has very little control of his body and soon finds out that he had no control over his life when it is revealed that his family had money and used Gregor for years.

For the first time in the novel, the family feels a sense of unity – especially since Gregor is gone. Before Gregor’s transformation, he was the one dragging the family along, yet, after he becomes a bug, his family decides that caring for Gregor for three months “isn’t possible” (49). The sense of relief of his death demonstrates that his family, even Greta, did not care for him enough to prevent his death. Even though the story focuses on the metamorphosis of Gregor, Mr. Samsa and Greta both engage in their own metamorphosis. Mr. Samsa was forced to find a job, which allowed him to revive his sense of authority in the family and give him the confidence to tell the roomers to “leave the house immediately” (53) – a sense of courage that he

The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, unlike many of Kafka’s other works, lacks a sense of incompleteness. Consisting of three, formally structured, chapters, each with their climax. Throughout the story, different themes are displayed but above all the family relationships affected by Gregor Samsa’s, the main protagonist, transformation into a “gargantuan pest” (13). Gregor remains in this physical state all through the story, and it is his only real change as a person. On the other hand, Grete, Gregor’s sister, slowly transforms into adulthood and is presumed to have reached full maturation by the end of the novella.

The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis novel expresses the hardship of living in a modern society and the conflict of being accepted by others in time of need. The novel reflects back to Franz Kafka own negative aspects of his personal life. Both Gregor and Franz have the same relationship with their fathers. Kafka grew up in a financially secure Jewish family in Prague.

In Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa deals with the alienation from his family stemming from both absurd and mundane circumstances. While Gregor’s transformation into a bug is the catalyst to his physical alienation, Gregor had for years been becoming more and more isolated mentally and emotionally from his family due to his displeasure at his having to work a job he hated due to his father’s failings and the lack of gratitude he received from his family for his hard work. It was not just his family who Gregor was becoming isolated from, but it was humanity in general that Gregor had been drifting apart from, as he had not mentioned having any friends or work colleagues which leads the readers to believe he had no social life

The straightforward style of “The Metamorphosis” enhances its nightmarish quality. The style is straightforward and emotionless as shown in Chapter 1 where it says “But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose consciousness.” This is very robotic and factual, lacking all emotion. It’s as if he has no sympathy of compassion at all, Kafka is just stating what is going on and nothing more. He uses this style to add to the nightmarish quality of the novel like when

Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who is responsible for the financial well-being of his entire family, yet experiences an unfortunate metamorphosis into a giant bug. However, while Gregor undergoes a disturbing physical transformation, the family dynamic changes drastically as well. The family’s treatment of Gregor slowly deteriorates from them regarding him as the basis for their financial success and security to regarding him as no more than an extraordinary nuisance that holds them back from a brighter future.

“In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kakfka, the style enhances the nightmarish quality of the work.” The style enhances the nightmarish quality of the work because the straightforward style seems to add in details all at once, but doesn’t give the major details for the readers to be able to fully understand the plot and the way Franz Kafka is trying to present his work. This is shown when Gregor wakes up and realizes he doesn’t have the form of a regular human being and when he feels a slight pain on his belly and sees that it’s covered in a white layer of specks that hurt to the touch. I believe that Gregor turning into an unknown creature creates a nightmarish effect because the author adds small details giving away hints of what Gregor might