Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

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In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the straightforward style enhances the the nightmarish quality of the work. You can see that here, “He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for travelling salesmen.” (The Metamorphosis.) Gregor, in The Metamorphosis has woken up transformed into a bug-like creature, but instead of the story having a horror, stressed style, it is very straightforward. Gregor, instead of worrying

In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka accounts the metamorphosis of Gregor’s care for his family. Initially, Gregor cares for his family out of an alternative motive, to gain acceptance, rather than a genuine love for his family. Prior to his physical metamorphosis, Gregor commits his life to care for his family’s financial needs. He willingly gives the majority of his income to his family. After Gregor’s physical metamorphosis, his care’s transformation begins. As a dung beetle, Gregor finds it impossible to care for his family. This change in his life forces him to see the many ways in which he hinders his family’s physical and mental growth. Over time, he learns how he must understand life from his family’s perspective in order to genuinely care. At the end of his life, Gregor thinks loving thoughts toward his family, even though he did not receive acceptance from his family. Although Gregor commits his life to care for his family, he unknowingly cares to gain approval until his care transforms into selfless love.

In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the straightforward style adds to the stressful nightmare that the story revolves around. “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”. (Metamorphosis, paragraph 11). The style is very direct and to the point, and that adds a stressful quality to the tone. The author uses very negative language such as “it would be a miracle if” and he became afraid” in this quote. This makes the writing sound worrisome, and is almost foreshadowing that something bad will happen. Another example of this is “What about if he

In this day and age family does not seem much important to people due to their busy life styles and exorbitant amount of work. It is not shocking that one’s state of mind alongside their feelings change while satisfying the everyday obligations which has pushed them far from investing quality energy with their friends and family. In Kafka 's The Metamorphosis it is seen that Gregor 's transformation in to a bug renders him helpless to communicate and part take his job as the earner of the family. Gregor’s family is not seen to have empathized with him after his sudden life changing transformation. Despite some good family members who support the individual when one 's family turns against them it leaves the individual feeling dead on the inside and out.

In the book The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, there are many things that contribute to Gregor’s transformation into a monstrous insect that could have been prevented. One of the key contributors is that Gregor let himself take on the burden of caring for his family while they do seemingly nothing to help. In order to avoid all of the stress that is placed upon him, Gregor could have done a few things differently. The things he could have done to avoid his transformation are talking to his family about helping him with financing the household, taking time for a social life, and being involved in his father’s financial decisions.

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

In Franz Kafka’s novel, The Metamorphosis, his main character Gregor awakens in his bed on morning only to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin, knowing that his body has physically changed he still feels the need to provide for his family as he tries to get out of bed and go on with his life to fulfill his obligations. His main concern is for his family to be well, and that never changes from the beginning to the end of the novel.

Many believe the purpose of life should be to carry out certain responsibilities. Success of these duties creates good feelings and a reason for living, but failure triggers deep remorse. In “The Metamorphosis“, Franz Kafka depicts an absurd tale featuring a central character so used to dwelling similar to an insect and burdened with guilt that these qualities of his life take over and cause his downfall.

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.

Once Upon A time, a young boy named Gregor turned into a bug. It all started when Greg got bit by a roach. A few days went by and Gregor started to feel different. On this one particular day, Gregor woke to a face full of tiny hairs. He continually rolled around and spit out a mouthful of vomit. He jumped up and when he got up he noticed he could not balance like before. He landed hard on his back, that then caused a sharp pain to shoot up and down his spine. He rolled to his side and felt the spot with his fingers. As far as he could tell, there was some sort of lump on his back, about the size of a watermelon, but it began to burn intensely. He rubbed at it vigorously, trying to make it feel better, but instead it just oozed and burned even

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

There were several concepts in the book The Metamorphosis which I had trouble understanding but with the cultural knowledge from the IB orals the concepts in the book became much more clear and lead me to understand the book in a better way.

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