Imagine waking up and you are not your normal self. Not just another human, but a bug. You wake up as a life-sized bug. Not a pretty butterfly, not a ladybug, but a cockroach. Out of every single bug in the world, you are a roach. The most disgusting, vile bug known to mankind. This was the case in Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis. In this short-story, the main character, Gregor has to learn how to live without his familys approval and support, and finds out some things about them he never realized. Gregor comes to realize that he may have been living lie a roach all along. Knowing some information about the author of this story makes it much clearer to understand.
Franz Kafka was born in Austria-Hungary, where there was great deal of tension along Austria and the rest of Europe. He had a normal childhood, attending school, the gym, and college within a few blocks of his birthplace. He studied law and got a job at an insurance company at age 24, but hated having to work to pay the bills. You can see a reflection of Kafka and Gregor in The Metamorphosis, both being people who were not necessarily happy, but kept working to pay bills even though they detested it. Kafkas journals showed that he struggled with his own sense of inefficiencies, sexually and socially, however, always seeming …show more content…
Kafka could have turned Gregor into any other insect, but he turned him into the most vile, disgusting bug know to mankind, a roach. This symbolized how Gregor was treated all his life, like a worthless insect that no one appreciates or cares for. Gregors family just used him, while Gregor actually cared for them. The insect is a representation of how his family made him feel, small and trapped. It was ironic in the way that when Gregor was a human, he was there for the family when they needed him, but now that he is incapable of doing the same, his family rejects him and doesn’t want to have anything to do with
Franz Kafka was born in Austria-Hungary, where there was great deal of tension along Austria and the rest of Europe. He had a normal childhood, attending school, the gym, and college within a few blocks of his birthplace. He studied law and got a job at an insurance company at age 24, but hated having to work to pay the bills. You can see a reflection of Kafka and Gregor in The Metamorphosis, both being people who were not necessarily happy, but kept working to pay bills even though they detested it. Kafkas journals showed that he struggled with his own sense of inefficiencies, sexually and socially, however, always seeming …show more content…
Kafka could have turned Gregor into any other insect, but he turned him into the most vile, disgusting bug know to mankind, a roach. This symbolized how Gregor was treated all his life, like a worthless insect that no one appreciates or cares for. Gregors family just used him, while Gregor actually cared for them. The insect is a representation of how his family made him feel, small and trapped. It was ironic in the way that when Gregor was a human, he was there for the family when they needed him, but now that he is incapable of doing the same, his family rejects him and doesn’t want to have anything to do with