Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

“The Metamorphosis” is a surreal story by Franz Kafka surrounding the transformation and betrayal of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one day, reborn into a large insect. Along with the bizarre and nightmarish appearance of his new hard back, brown segmented belly, and many legs, Gregor only desire is to live a normal life, unfortunately, this is impossible because he struggles to even get out of bed. Gregor transformation into an insect is a vivid metaphor for the alienation of humans from around the world. After losing human form, Gregor is automatically deprived of the right to be a part of society. Franz Kafka could relate to Gregor because he too was mistreated/neglected by his father and worked a job that he was unhappy doing. Franz and Gregor both were providers for their families. Alienation, isolation, and loneliness were not hard to recognize during the Modernity and Modernism time period.

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 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.

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.

When I was younger my fear for insects was nonexistent. Growing up I didn't see many insects till I moved to the East Coast. Some of the insects I came across was beautiful, for example at night fireflies would light up, and that fascinated me. Other insects such as flying ants and roaches made me no longer enjoy the idea of insects as once before. In today's American society it's common that people deveolped their own perceptions about insects. In Kafka's Metamorphosis, the story explained how Gregor's family didn't accept his transition. Gregor was practically disowned and treated differently. His family viewed him as disgusting.Therefore,Gregor's experience directly correlates with how people today view insects now. Americans tend to perceive

When Gregor is trying to communicate with his family he soon discovers that no one “understands his speech”(Kafka, 951). When trying to explain everything is fine Gregor realizes

In toady's society, people have a tendency to not think about the worst case scenarios. Which coincides with the book Kafka's The Metamorphosis, the story displays how a young man named Gregor experienced a life changing event. Gregor went from a hard working man providing for his family to turning into a gigantic insect. Imagine the difficult time Gregor must have had to transform and feel useless. Gregor's transformation effected his state of mind; he is faced with isolation, loneliness and that makes it harder for human to get forget his human life.

The metamorphosis advances the existentialism view that choice is the opportune of the individual. It is the responsibility of the individual to maintain a balance between work and leisure. The story gives a sense, that if one chooses to devote their life to work will just make them droning incest, and if they devote their life to only leisure they will still not maintain a stable life. A balance in life needs to be maintained. Gregor doesn’t seem to know that his choice of working was making him very unhappy. Even though, Gregor was not maintaining his job very well and failing it, whereas he ignores the basic needs for social interaction by working hard and long hours. For a long time of reaping in the unwanted started to effect him. In spite of, one day Gregor awakens to find himself with the body of monstrous vermin. However, it is never explained in the book how he was morphed into a vermin. “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams "What's happened to me?" he thought. It was no dream”. (Kafka) Kafka never mentioned the reason of Gregor weird transformation, but he gives reader a sense that Gregor’s life was always a misery and when he woke up in the morning he didn’t doubted the miserable things happening to him, In fact he

Gregor Samsa, a traveling businessman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a human-sized insect in the short story The Metamorphosis by Kafka. He’s disoriented and thinks that he’s dreaming, but, through his family’s shocked reactions, finds out that he actually is an insect. The Metamorphosis is laced with dark humor, but Wallace, in his analysis of Kafka’s works, Laughing with Kafka, says that “it is next to impossible to get them [students] to see that Kafka is funny” (23). Kafka’s piece usually fascinates readers, but it is difficult to see why at first, because it takes some thinking to realize the power of Kafka’s dark humor. The Metamorphosis engages the reader because it is funny through the use of dark humor.

this book the Metamorphosis follows a young man by the name Gregor Samsa Who is nothing more than normal human being. That's a traveling salesman and he has to provide for his greedy family imagine if the family that you have loved for your whole life one day hate you for the way you look.One day out of the blue gregor wakes up to find out that he is a insect But instead of being disheartened about being an insect he Start fantasizing about how much he hated his Daily Grind

In the Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka transforms the main character, Gregor Samsa, into a bug. Kafka chose the bug for several reasons. The bug is a symbol for the life that Gregor has. His life is full of loneliness and emptiness. Furthermore, Kafka wrote this book shortly after the Industrial Revolution. There is a connection between the bug-form of Samsa and the transformation of workers into machines.

In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the straightforward style enhances the nightmarish quality of the work by giving the reader a sense of denial and hopelessness. In the fifth paragraph of chapter one, Gregor is thinking to himself about his boss: “…it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing…once I've got the money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, my train leaves at five." Gregor just realized he is a vermin, and he goes on a string

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is an early twentieth century masterpiece in which the author tries to convey a certain theme to readers. To really understand this theme, readers have to be informed on who Kafka is and why he wants to convey a theme. They should be informed on him because they can better understand the protagonist, Gregor, and get a glimpse of why he feels a certain way about something. In this scenario, the theme is trying to display mankind’s descent into something sub-human. Mankind’s descent into something sub-human can be represented through Kafka’s depiction of Gregor’s tragic literal and metaphorical transformations.

In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka emphasizes the ideas of freedom and imprisonment, symbolized within the life of a young man, Gregor Samsa, who devotes himself completely to fulfill his family’s needs. Despite various interpretations of the novella, Kafka prominently portrays through the symbolism of Gregor’s apartment itself, a divide between his family’s world and his own after his transformation as an insect. In doing so, Kafka presents a dilemma that Gregor faces as the consequences of his transformation include losing his freedom and finding himself imprisoned by his own family. In this complex novella, Kafka uses the recurring imagery of disease, doors and Gregor’s room in the apartment to illustrate the loss of freedom and the gain

In the opening lines of German author Franz Kafkas’ short story narrative “The Metamorphosis”, the protagonist Gregor Samsa a disgruntled traveling salesman who lives with and supports his parents and little sister, awakens from a night of unpleasant dreams to find that he has been metamorphosed into a cockroach he calls a “monstrous vermin” (Kafka, page 89). This particularly strange opening sets the stage for in my opinion, a very strange and very vague play. I say this because throughout the whole story we never find out much less are given any clue of how or why he managed to be metamorphosed into this insect. Not to mention what the moral of the story is or the fact that this whole book reads like one big