We read Kafka’s story the Metamorphosis, Kafka wrote, “One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin”. (Kafka Chapter 1) After turning into this creature Gregor begins to have more complications that arise. First he couldn't go to work, then he is seen, despised, and then beaten by his dad. Soon after these things begin to diminish farther for Gregor. As things diminish for him Gregor begins to lose essentials that are on maslow's hierarchy of needs, including esteem, emotional needs, safety needs, and physical needs. In total Gregor begins in and starts in actualization and eventually throughout the story his condition declined through all four levels until he doesn't have any of the needs.
At the beginning of the Metamorphosis Gregor wakes up as what he calls a monstrous vermin. Though when he is first in this form, he is …show more content…
He since recently lost all needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, he started out in the actualization stage, which is the best stage, and began deteriorate fast. He first lost his esteem for his inability to work, then he lost his emotional needs, then he lost his safety needs Kafka wrote, “Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the stick, then,finally, all was quiet.” which shows his father hitting him, which would cause Gregor to lose the safety needs. and finally he lost his physiological needs when he stopped getting food or any care. After he lost all these thing it was not going to continue for long, and it didn't, soon after he’s pushed into his room for the final time, he losses his pain, he then dies. This goes to show that when you don't have at least a couple of the needs on maslow's hierarchy of needs it is impossible to live for very
At the beginning of the Metamorphosis Gregor wakes up as what he calls a monstrous vermin. Though when he is first in this form, he is …show more content…
He since recently lost all needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, he started out in the actualization stage, which is the best stage, and began deteriorate fast. He first lost his esteem for his inability to work, then he lost his emotional needs, then he lost his safety needs Kafka wrote, “Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the stick, then,finally, all was quiet.” which shows his father hitting him, which would cause Gregor to lose the safety needs. and finally he lost his physiological needs when he stopped getting food or any care. After he lost all these thing it was not going to continue for long, and it didn't, soon after he’s pushed into his room for the final time, he losses his pain, he then dies. This goes to show that when you don't have at least a couple of the needs on maslow's hierarchy of needs it is impossible to live for very