Gregor In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

First lets show how this happened in The Metamorphosis. The lack of sympathy the author had for Gregor was amazing. He went through a change in his life that no one thought would be possible. He went

Gregor’s major transformation occurred not when he turned into a bug, but through the changes in his life. Gregor’s life before the changed into some sort of bug was like a bumble bee. He would go through life doing as others told him. In

Gregor maintains submissive personality and does not defend himself. Gregor’s physical change into a bug is the only aspect of him that changes. Gregor continuously allows himself to be abused. Upon Gregor’s transformation, he is unable to go to work. Therefore, the chief clerk visits Gregor to force him to come to work. Gregor remained locked in his room and would not leave for work. So, the clerk became extremely impatient. The frustrated clerk divulges into a cruel and demoralizing speech. He maliciously accuses Gregor of hiding because of unethical involvement in cash receipts. Later, Gregor’s family and the clerk become restless and want to see Gregor. The door to Gregor’s room is unlocked to open and reveal Gregor in his insect form. Gregor’s family and the clerk react with horror. The clerk and Gregor’s mother run away from him in fear. Gregor’s father grabs a stick and a newspaper and dashes toward Gregor, herding Gregor back into his bedroom with prods and fierce language. Gregor injures himself badly while trying to fit back through the doorway. Gregor’s door is slammed shut behind him and he his left alone, frightened and injured, in his room. The events subsequent to Gregor’s transformation exhibit his passive nature. Clearly such passivity was not useful to Gregor.

Gregor was betrayed by society turning its back on him due to the transformation from human to a human-sized bug. After the metamorphosis, Gregor was pondering the idea of what people would think of him in his new form. He had high hopes that society would still accept him. "A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacle has been removed, he's

Gregor Samsa's metamorphosis occurs one morning when he wakes up from unsettling dreams and finds himself changed into a monstrous vermin.  This change makes Gregor dependent on his family members and reverses his previous situation in which his family was dependent on him.  As a bug, Gregor is useless to his family and can no longer perform simple human tasks, let alone support his father, mother, and sister.

He was very shocked by this change and couldn’t go to work and even tell his family about this. But his family soon came to know about his transformation into a big insect. They were surprised because they counted on him for the family’s income as he was the only source of money in the house. Gregor was transformed into an ultimate insect both psychologically and physically. This transformation into led to complete alienation which prevented him from working and providing his family with money. His transformation not only changed his life but also made his family’s economical condition bad. They used to have cooks and maids for household works but now they worked by their selves and also had people living in their house who paid them monthly rents. This shows how bad their economical condition had become.

This article by Walter H. Sokel claims that the metamorphosis Gregor goes through gives him the chance to be rebellious. Sokel highlights that after Gregor is changed into a cockroach he also changes mentally, which affects his actions.

In the beginning of the novella, Gregor undergoes a transformation. Many readers view his transformation as he turns into a bug because of the way Kafka describes Gregor. Kafka may have been undergoing a transformation of his own. Kafka dealt with many issues growing up such as self doubt, issues with his father, and eventually, health issues. Like Kafka, Gregor deals with issues with his father and within himself and begins to feel less and less like himself as the novella continues. He awakes from his sleep to ask himself, “What’s happened to me (Kafka, 3)?” With the conflicts Gregor has with his family, especially his father, he begins to feel unwanted and unappreciated. Gregor also feels that he is becoming less sensitive when that used to be one of his main traits as a human (Kafka, 24). Seeing that Gregor is losing his sensitivity, that shows that he is truly losing himself since he is losing one of his main traits. Feeling less like himself, Gregor becomes more distant with his close

The deterioration of Gregor's life was in part due to the ostracism associated with his being turned into a bug. Once his family found out what happened, they banished him to his room, and his parents could not even bear to look at him. Prior to his metamorphosis, Gregor was an integral part of the family. He provided the money by which the family survived. Yet as soon as he changed, he was labeled an outcast, who was useless to the family, and therefore not paid any attention. He felt this ostracism, and it made him not want to continue on in life, he gave up because he felt unloved.

In the novella The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the main character Gregor undergoes a physical transformation from human to bug. Despite this change in appearance, he maintains his human brain as insect tendencies slowly take over his day to day behavior. He maintains his thoughtless state of mind, memories, and inner dialogue during his exterior transformation. Although he maintains his mental capacities, it is his change in appearance that causes his family to turn against him and eventually kill him. These events show how people can become dehumanized by society and the government only because of a difference in behavior or appearance.

Gregor's life as an insect, or vermin, as he described himself, is a metaphor for feelings of alienation and isolation that existed long before his transformation. Gregor’s loss of humanity in the eyes of his family condemns Gregor into what he describes as an “imprisonment” that restricts him from any of the comforts and securities of human interaction.

While Gregor has gone through a more physically based metamorphosis, his change to a bug is simply physical and has no effect on his emotional wellbeing. Near the end of the first sentence in the book, ' […] he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. ' It is shown that he has been turned into a bug, plain and simple. What is shown later on in the book further proves the point that his change is only physical. An example is this, 'He remembered his family with deep feeling and love.' Gregor's family is clearly very important to him and he has a lot of emotion towards them, primarily love. Emotions like love are not associated with bugs, rather feelings of disgust and hate are most commonly associated with them.

Body paragraph 1:: The first way Kafka demonstrates the struggles in family relationships is through irony. To begin, the family has financial problems. The family has accumulated debt and is being paid off solely by Gregor, him being the only one working in the family, “Why was only Gregor condemned to work for a firm…”(p 1087). This shows that Gregor clearly dislikes his role of being the only one working. Because Gregor is the only one working, he lacks a solid relationship with someone and he desires one badly, “no relationships that last or get more intimate. To the devil with it all!” (p 1084). So right away the reader learns that Gregor is seen more as a source of income, rather than given the time and love he needs to be in this situation.

I agree with your theory that Gregor has always been a bug! This story teaches us how people can forget the past so easily and move on. Gregor is the one who was taking care of his family and supported them financially but when he turned into something useless (cockroach) they started to feel they won’t need him anymore since he is not being able to support them and they are getting tired of taking care of him.

The opening line of The Metamorphosis, describing Gregor’s discovery that he has become a giant insect, sets the tone for the rest of the story. The line describes the unusual incident in a serious, straightforward manner. The contrast between a strange situation and normal descriptions creates the expectation that the story’s setting to be strange and chaotic, instead of normal and logical. When he first recognizes his transformation, Gregor treats like an ordinary disturbance. In a similar fashion, the significance in the end of the first section of the book lies in the chaos created in Gregor’s loss of consciousness of his new physical state. Gregor remains focused on ordinary distresses, such as losing his job and worsening his family’s