Outsiders Outsider

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.

Have you ever walked into school or a job and felt like you were not like everyone else? Many people struggle with the feeling of not fitting into a certain norm, which causes them to feel as though they are an outsider. In the story Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Gregor Samsa becomes an outsider when he wakes up to discover he is a monstrous bug. Not only does his family misjudge him but they starve, mistreat, and seclude him. Outsiders like Gregor Samsa have always been different and misjudged.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a reflection on how alienation and isolation begin and develop in a society by employing the characters in his novella as a representation of society as a whole. Using Gregor’s manager to demonstrate the initiation of isolation and alienation of a person, Gregor as the person being isolated and the inhabitants of the Samsa household as the other members of society, Kafka creates an effective model to represent the hierarchically structured effect of isolationism and alienation in society on a larger scale.

Gregor Samsa is a traveling salesman who hates his job but keeps it because of he has to pay off his his father dept and care for his family. He transforms into a large bug and spends the rest of his life in that state. Despite his transformation into an insect, Gregor changes very little as a character over the course of the story. He accepts the hardships he faces as a bug and as a man without complaining. When his father went into debt he readily took role as the money earner in the family, even though it meant taking a job he did not like.

According to the author of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.k. Rowling, “We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.” I believe what Rowling was trying to say through this quote was that we all make bad choices and mistakes sometime in our lives.

Throughout The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa has the conception that he has been transformed into a bug. Although physical descriptions in the text propose Gregor is a bug, these descriptions actually serve to denote his mental state. Imposed responsibilities, prison-like treatment, and animalistic changes perceptible only to Gregor factor together to drive Gregor to insanity. When Mr. Samsa lost his business, Gregor immediately stepped up to the plate in order for his family to, “…forget…the business disaster which had plunged everyone in a state of total despair (25).” Because he held a stable position, it allowed for Gregor to, “… earn[ed] enough money to meet the expenses of the entire family (26).”

For instance, in " The Metamorphosis.” In The Metamorphosis written by Kafka, Gregor changes in a bug, and his physical appearance are considered " odd " or " different " which caused him to fall out of social order and no longer be the insider but the outsider. Transformation into a different lifestyle is what makes someone an outsider, because they are living in a world that they are not used to and others won't accept them, since the world that they live in is different. For example, Gregor lives in another world where he is an insider as a cockroach, but to his family, he is the outsider and they can never accept him because of that. So he is treated negatively with discrimination and criticism.

In the story “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. The story tells about of a man who wakes up one day as some sort of bug like vermin and his family sees him as a bug. Are outsiders simply those who are misjudged or misunderstood? Yes, outsiders are misunderstood and misjudged because they're too afraid to get out there.

In Metamorphosis, the protagonist in the story is Gregor Samsa. He is a travelling salesman who awakes one morning to discover he has turned into an insect. It seems that Gregor's only use purpose in life is to work and support his family; this seems his own concern when he finds himself as an insect. "The next train went at seven o'clock; to catch that he would need to hurry like mad and his samples weren't even packed up, and he himself wasn't feeling particularly fresh and active" Gregor is alienated from by the ones who love him, much like the alienation of Frank in The Wasp Factory.

A young man named Peter Pan once said, “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” The same ideology relates to the theory that explains how Gregor Samsa turned into an insect in The Metamorphosis. There isn’t much concrete evidence to explain how magic works or how Gregor turned into a bug however, Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, is able to reveal the underlying truth behind Gregor Samsa’s past, as he now lives his life in the form of insect. He spends his days working as a traveling salesman to pay off his parents’ debt whilst disregarding his own. The life Gregor Samsa lived was more than just pure psychosis, instead magic was able to alter the reality he lived by manifesting itself into

It is quite intriguing to learn the concept of transmutation of an animal, but it is well unheard of an actual person to have been mutated. Once finishing reading the short story “Metamorphosis" written by Franz Kafka the reader is able to conclude that the title pertains not only to Gregor’s mutation, but also to the whole story. Metamorphosis is a transformation of a human being or insect into ultimately an unrelated creature. It seems to resemble that process at the beginning by the way Gregor worked for his family while they got used to living comfortably letting him work for them. Though when Gregor’s transformation happened the family collapsed over financial problems and there mutated loved one.

Mr. Samsa is the man that Gregor never could become. As Gregor completes his metamorphosis from human to bug, his

In “The Metamorphosis,” Kafka utilizes the idea of alienation in a few different contexts: there is the alienation Gregor is experiencing between himself and his identity/well-being, the alienation spawning between himself and his humanity, and the isolation between him and his family. In the text, Gregor has alienated himself from any semblance of a personal identity mostly due to the emphasis he has placed on his work. Gregor’s life revolves around work, as it takes precedence over all else. This is evidenced by the lack of a reaction he had towards the discovery of his transformation, instead focusing on how “strenuous” his career is and the repercussions of possibly missing work that day. The man has just turned into a big cockroach with no explanation as to why or how this has happened, and all he wonders about is what would happen if he told off his boss. This is a testament to how much he defines himself through his work,

The title of Camus’ novel, L’Étranger, can be translated into “The Outsider”, “The Stranger” or “The Foreigner”. Among these three translations, “The Outsider” stands out as the most suitable title as it summarises the whole story in a comprehensive way. A stranger or a foreigner can be considered as an outsider but the converse is not necessarily true. An outsider is one who is not accepted by society. It is evident in the novel that Meursault does not belong to society; he is like an outsider, who observes everything with clinical detachment. Through Meursault’s detailed narration, we see that there is no meaning and rationale in the things that happen around him. This can be clearly seen through the recurrence of the statement “this does

The Metamorphosis begins with a description of a troubling situation “ As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect” (1) Gregor who started working at a very young to sustain his family is now handicapped and is not even able to move. He is unable to provide any kind