The Metamorphosis

   Hi, everyone. I thought it will be good if I share my documents, assignments, essays etc. because I worked hard for every one of them and maybe they can help some others who make researches for their assigments or just for the sake of reading. Anyway I am gonna start with The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I chose to write about this book in my Textual Analysis course and I got A for it. Hope it helps. By the way all of these writings are my own articles but you can use them how ever you want.

Metamorphosis of the People in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka is one of the most famous modern novelists. He is one of the most influential writers of 20th century. Like other authors of his time he also handles existentialist theory and absurdity of  life in his writings. As we know after World Wars, people began questioning of life and questioning the meaning of existentialism on the world. World Wars cause changes of on human psychology, like people who were suffering because of wars became more pessimistic and hopeless. Of course this situation influenced authors too. They reflect this circumstance on their works. In Kafka’s works we see this influence a lot of course another important points affected his writings also such as his problematic relationship with his father and condition of people after The Industrial Revulotion. From Kafka’s perspective with the beginnig of The Industrial Revulotion people became something out of human being, they have turned a kind of production machine. What I have understood from his writings is, people are important for each other as long as they provide income and this situation does not change even if they have blood tie or close relationship among them. In The Metapmorphosis, after transformation of Gregor, which means he can not provide income at all, Kafka reveals changing of family members so Gregor transforms pscyhically but rest of his family transforms mentally.

     Begining of the book Gregor Samsa the protagonist of the story wakes up from an uneasy dream and finds himself as an insect. First this transformation surprises him a little bit but then he worries about his job because he would have went to work. He is late also. During the whole story we see that only Gregor’s body transformed in a bug body but his mind does not change. In spite of his situation he still thinks about his family because he is the one wo provides income of the house. The transformation does not change his pure, naive thoughts about his family members but we can not say same thing for the rest of his family.

    Before transformation of Gregor, he is not important for family. They do not care with him what he needs or what he wants. The important thing for them Gregor’s working and paying of father’s debts but no one appreciates him for this supporting financially. When Gregor turned a bug everyone rejects him even his sister whom he has a closer relationship. They start to ignore Gregor and also shame because of his out looking. Gregor can not communicate with his family because of his situation he can not speak. He just try to understand their thoughts from their faces. Although their bothered and bored behaivors Gregor still worries about them and feels guilty because he can not support them at all. Now his family members start working and they rent one of the rooms of their home to earn money but strangely they do not feel responsible for Gregor however they are angry to him because of his looking but poor Gregor does not want to believe any bad things about them. He tries to rationalize everything.

    To sum up, in this short story Kafka shows us intelligently, corruption of relationships among family members. In that way story is a realistic story because we can see similar problem today’s families also. When Gregor turns a bug which means he is unavailing now he becomes an unimportant person  for his family. Actually, he is not important for them before transformation. The only important thing is his supporting financially of them. In the story his father who behaves Gregor in a bad way physically most probably portrays Kafka’s father because except this one most of his stories have a bad father character. As a conclusion I can say that, according to the story people’s behaivor can change if one lose his power in terms of earning money, it is sad to say but unfortunately this is today’s  reality.

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