Analysis Of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

In the Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses a variety of elements to express the underlying conflict in the novel. He uses many critical elements to show emphasize the treatment by rejection that Gregor Samsa receives after his transformation. Kafka uses the apple, Gregor’s father, and Gregor’s sister to prove an important point in the life of Gregor. These three key elements relate to Gregor’s human side and his vermin side. While Kafka uses many other elements to show how everything Gregor goes through, this ultimately leads to his rejection by society. He uses the apple, Gregor’s father, and sister to express key points throughout Gregor’s rejection from society. By using Gregor’s relatives, this increases the importance of family in Gregor’s …show more content…
At the point when Gregor first shows up before his family and the boss agent as a vermin, they meet him with horror and rejection. The father rejects his own son Gregor after becoming a vermin. Once he finds out his son becomes a vermin, he will immediately degrade his son as being part of the family that they once were. When the father along with his family and Gregor’s boss realize Gregor’s transformation, "he seized in his right hand the walking stick that the chief clerk had left behind on a chair, together with a hat and great coat, snatched in his left hand a large newspaper from the table, and began stamping his feet and flourishing the stick and the newspaper to drive Gregor back into his room.(pg. 103)” Clearly, from the start of Gregor’s metamorphosis, his father handles Gregor like a creature, being worthless, as he keeps him locked in his room, hiding him from society and any cooperation with the outside world. Subsequent to Gregor no more looks human, his dad opposes contact with his child and keeps him from connecting with any other …show more content…
The apple is a representation of the desperation measures that they family is holding onto. Gregor’s father tossed apples at Gregor, right after realizing that he was the cause of his mother fainting. Gregor describes his father’s actions about throwing apples very clearly. Gregor describes the rapid event as "an apple thrown without much force glanced against Gregor 's back and slid off without doing any harm.” Then describes that the father continued his anger by “another one however, immediately following it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion." The father was disturbed by what Gregor has brought to the family. Gregor’s dad had hit him before to push him and isolate him in his room. Gregor was the only source of income for the family, and he was seen as an obstacle to the