Frank Kafka's The Metamorphosis

According to the author, Gregor has always been an introvert. He would lock the door of his room and stay there and he would not even make any connection to anyone in his family, but her sister, Grete. Before his transformation, he would lock his door for privacy (class notes). Gregor is a hard-working man and he has dedicated his life to his work even though he is unsatisfied with his job. He would often think about rebelling against his family, but he can’t quite grasp the idea of leaving them. His willingness of working tirelessly for the sake of his family proves that he loves them. It is proven that he is lacking human contact because he cuts out a picture of a model off a magazine and he hanged it on his wall (414). This means that he has no special someone to spend his life with

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.

So I read the book Metamorphosis and I did not like it very much. To me it was very boring. The book is about a man named Gregor. He is a traveling salesmen who makes all the money for his family. Gregor does not like his job working as a traveling salesmen. If his family did not depend on the income so much, then he would’ve quit his job. One day he wakes up in his bed and finds that he has turned into a large insect. Gregor is a bit upset and confused about why he turned into an insect. He struggles to get his new large body out of bed as he realizes that he is late for his job. Gregor's mother, father, and sister knock on his locked bedroom door to try to get him out of bed for his job. While Gregor gets out of bed, he hears his office manager

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.

"Franz Kafka is renowned for prophetic and profoundly enigmatic stories that portray human degradation and cruelty." (Bloom) The Metamorphosis is said to be one of Franz Kafka’s best works of literature. It shows "the difficulties of living in a modern society and the struggle for acceptance of others when in a time of need." (Bloom) The Metamorphosis is about a young man, Gregor Samsa, who is transformed overnight into a bug. He soon becomes a disgrace to his family. After his metamorphosis, his family goes through an even bigger change than Gregor. In this novel "Kafka directly reflects upon many of the negative aspects of his personal life, both mentally and physically." (Jiminez) "When comparing Franz Kafka and his personal life to The Metamorphosis it is obvious in more ways than one that he was writing a twisted story of his life." (Breckman)

The novel contains the stereotype that women are the care providers and entertainers for the family. They do so by preparing and serving food, as can be seen between Mr. and Mrs. Samsa and between Gregor and Grete, when she feeds him a multitude of different foods to see which he prefers. Also, they help by cleaning around the house and fixing the house to the comfort of the men, which they did by removing furniture from Gregor’s room. Furthermore, when the three tenants moved in, Mrs. Samsa cooked them food and Grete entertained them with her violin.

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

The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, unlike many of Kafka’s other works, lacks a sense of incompleteness. Consisting of three, formally structured, chapters, each with their climax. Throughout the story, different themes are displayed but above all the family relationships affected by Gregor Samsa’s, the main protagonist, transformation into a “gargantuan pest” (13). Gregor remains in this physical state all through the story, and it is his only real change as a person. On the other hand, Grete, Gregor’s sister, slowly transforms into adulthood and is presumed to have reached full maturation by the end of the novella.

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

When Franz Kafka first penned his short novel The Metamorphosis in 1915, he had no idea that it would become one of the most influential pieces of fiction of the twentieth century, continuously being studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The novel rotates around the life of a man named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up on a routine day, and suddenly finds himself transformed into an insect. As the story progresses, the reader can see how Gregor’s physical transformation triggers different emotions among the Samsa family. The situation is far from quintessential, and as a result of this sudden transfiguration, each person in the family changes drastically. While Gregor went through a horrid physical transformation, he may not have been the only family member who went through a metamorphosis. Although Gregor’s mother and father both changed characteristics throughout the book, specifically Gregor’s sister changed the most. Although Gregor transformed physically, his sister Grete went through the most realistic transformation both mentally and emotionally, as her character changed dramatically from the beginning to the end of the book, for better or for worse.

The short novel The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is about a man who wakes up as a huge bug. Gregor Samsa’s random and unexplained transformation from a human being to an enormous insect is juxtaposed with boring day-to-day activities such as waking up late and cleaning the house. After this change, Gregor is unable to work and is restricted to the four walls of his room for the remainder of the story.

The straightforward style in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis enhances the nightmarish quality the work. Franz Kafka is straightforward and enhances the nightmarish quality when saying “His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helpless as he looked.” This describes Gregor when he wakes up as a bug and notices his body is changed. Franz Kafka showed the nightmarish quality by describing Gregor waking up and helplessly looking at his legs. A nightmare most people have is not to have any control of their situation and being helpless, like Gregor in this situation. Another fear most people have is to not doing the right thing by their family or to be hurt by the people closest to them, Franz captures this

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

Franz Kafka’s use of social commentary in the novella The Metamorphosis illuminates destructive effects of alienation through Gregor’s life before and after his transformation into a monstrous vermin and the reactions of his family members on his new body. When Gregor’s body, once a normal humanly figure, begins to change, he finds no purpose to his being as he is incapable of moving out of bed for work. In addition to his body transformation, Gregor also begins to lose his sense of humanity in result of his weakening relationships between his family members. Even before the metamorphosis occurs, Kafka shows Gregor’s feeling of being distanced from his family when he

In the story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the author is showing that Gregor family feelings for Gregor changes as Gregor does not have a huge impact on their life. Gregor is the main character, he is the breadwinner of the family for his mother, father, and sister . Once Gregor Transformed into the bug his family had to learn how to fend for themselves. Each of his family members reacted in both similar and different ways, this allows to see how much they actually care and how they felt for Gregor.