Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis Literary Analysis

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor’s evolution to an insect symbolizes the loss of thorough communication, representing the disconnection of the individual from his family and his surroundings. Through this metamorphosis, the once loving family begins to remove itself from any past interactions with Gregor. In addition, the setting and surroundings of Gregor completely overcome him and persuade him to lose hope. The family and surroundings, not the change to an insect, lead Gregor towards death. Not only do the uncontrollable surroundings change Gregor, but so does the family.

In a household or family, typically, changes that one family member experiences affects the way of living of another family member or even the whole family. These changes can affect families by making them come to a realization in which they have to find other resources to accommodate their needs or the change can help mend relationships within the family. Changes can also help in the development of one or more of the family members. In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka this theme of change within family and personal growth is seen and experienced with all the characters in the family. The character that experience the most changes and personal growth is Grete. Grete’s brother, Gregor, is a salesman that wakes up one day transformed into a bug. This transformation that Gregor experiences from being the provider of the family and being dedicated to his job makes Gregor go through various realizations about his life. As Grete witnesses this transformation she experiences major changes of her own. Throughout the novella, Grete’s metamorphosis can be interpreted into three different parts. The first is Grete in her most innocent and sensitive phase, where she is helping her brother out of kindness and love. The second stage is where Grete is beginning to develop and get accustomed to these new

In the story, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, a young man named Gregor unexpectedly turns into a human sized cockroach. Consequently, this causes a drastic shift in Gregor and his family’s lives, for Gregor was the only person who was able to support his family with their demands. As time passes by, his family’s responses towards Gregor’s sudden transformation alters, giving insight into their characters throughout the story. These insights also correspond with many of their interactions with one another and with the minor characters. Moreover, Gregor’s family’s responses all correlate to Gregor’s transformation throughout the story, as this change not only affects himself, but his parents and his sister as well, in their everyday

Franz Kafka is known for his fusion of realism and fantasy elements in his stories, often featuring characters in isolated scenarios where the characters have unexplained attributes or powers. In the Kafka novella, The Metamorphosis features a protagonist that become isolated from his family. Gregor, the main character, wakes up as a bug mysteriously. The transformation leads to Gregor and his family adjusting to his metamorphosis. Furthermore, strangely, the novella is about Gregor’s family changes and development throughout novella and about him as a character.

The Metamorphosis is a story about a traveling salesman, named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up in his bed one morning as a horrible bug-like creature. He thinks that he is just having a bad dream, so he tries to go back to sleep but can not turn over. He realizes that he is in fact an insect, with a hard-shelled back and little legs. Gregor realizes that he is late for work, and is going to miss the train to get to his office. He hears his boss downstairs, at his family’s house to see why he is late. The boss and his family comes upstairs to his room, telling him to get out of bed and unlock the door. He tries to talk to his boss, but his voice has changed and the family realizes there must be something wrong with him. They beg him to open the door, and Gregor slowly rocks himself until he falls onto the floor. He can not control his legs, so he grabs the key to the door with his mouth, and slowly unlocks the door. The family and Gregor’s boss see him, and are horrified. His sister, Grete, starts crying, and Gregor’s boss turns and hurriedly leaves. Gregor tries to talk to him, but his voice has completely changed and nobody can understand him at all anymore. His father pushes him back into the room, and shuts the door. Gregor goes to sleep, and when he wakes up he finds milk and bread sitting on the floor.

During the presentations, several articles and vital information were presented to the class to get a further understanding of the Metamorphosis. The majority of subjects introduced were abut Kafka’s life behind the books, and interpretations, criticism, and influenced authors. The presentation “Kafka’s biography” we learned that Kafka had a very close relationship with his sisters, being the oldest of six. I believe this is why Gregor had a very close relationship with his sister. He turned into a monstrous vermin and had no one but his sister Grete to confide in. Kafka was also a fulltime insurance officer by day and by night Kafka did what he loved most which was write books non stop. This relates to Gregor because he was a salesman and

“He was lying on his back as hard as armor plate, and when he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling” (3). With this startling opening, Franz Kafka begins his story, The Metamorphosis. Kafka tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a man who has turned into a vermin overnight. Throughout the story, money plays an important role by having a significant effect on relationships within the Samsa family. Gregor Samsa is burdened with the fact that his family depends on him to bring money home.

In Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” although this is a sad story, reality and reflection play a vital part in this story, the dramatic events that take place can be related to modern society. Gregor is portrayed as a man who is the breadwinner unlike traditional families where the father is in charge Kafka reverses the roles, “Gregor has bent all his endeavors to helping the family to get over the commercial catastrophe, which had plunged them into complete despair as quickly as possible, and so he began working with especial zeal and almost every night” (Kafka, The Metamorphosis, pg 224). Gregor was never praised nor recognized for his hard efforts to keep the family in stable condition, “They had just become used to it, they gratefully took receipt of his money, which he willingly handed

In the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the style of his writing enhances the nightmarish feeling the work portrays. “But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body out of the bed all at the same time” (Paragraph 13, Lines 1 and 2). Gregor is immediately turned into an unidentified bug at the very beginning of the story. Instead of him focusing on his own person problem of being transformed, he is more worried about getting out of bed to go to work. This gives the reader an uneasy feeling right at the start.

In Franz Kafka’s novel, The Metamorphosis Gregor explains his feeling on his family and how his family is affected. Gregor’s feelings in the story do not change at all due to loyalty to his family. In the beginning he feels affection and love towards his family and feels this throughout the novel.

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

Last, but not least the dialogue was withdrawn in the film. The was the most important meaning of the story. In the film Gregor only spoke in the beginning of the segment. Otherwise throughout the picture he was mute, his family was the only ones who was talking. It's essential for the dialogue to be present, for that's the only way the author can communicate to it's audience. According to Kafka, Ms.Samasa wanted to remove some items out of Gregor's room; Gregor appeared to her and caused her to become faint (Kafka, ch.2). Mr. Samsa entered the home frantic from the sight of his wife and asked Grete what transpired. Grete explains how Gregor frightened her. Mr. Samsa replies by saying " Just as I always said, by you women wouldn't listen would

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.

The Metamorphosis is about a traveling salesman Gregor Samsa who was the money provider to his family, and was metaphorically transformed. "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vernin" (Kafka 538).The transformation that happens to Gregor affects everyone else he is connected with in one way or another, and brings his family into configurations with each other.

At the beginning of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Gregor becomes a giant beetle, loses his abilities as a human, such as his ability to communicate and work. Gregor’s transformation explores the theme of alienation. Through the attitude of people around him and himself, Gregor shows he is isolated from his body, his mind and his social relationships: he neither connects to society nor his family. Through Gregor’s tragic experience, Kafka is fighting against alienation. He also criticizes the numbness and apathy in family relationship for creating hopelessness and loneliness.