The Metamorphosis Analysis Throughout their lives, people deal with all of their thoughts and emotions going on in their head on a daily basis. A well-known author who shines a light on the complexity of the human psyche in his book, The Metamorphosis, is Franz Kafka. In this novel, Kafka describes the reactions of the characters to a significant change. The point of view and tone of the story allows the reader to see the reactions clearly and think about the reasoning for such an expression to occur. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a novel that describes the psychological processes that occurs when an unexpected, yet significant change is made in someone’s life. The themes that were prominent throughout the text were isolation/alienation,
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This theme is also being displayed through “after hearing his mother’s words, Gregor realized that the absence of all direct human address, combined with the monotony of life in his family’s midst, must have muddled his understanding over the course of these two months,” (Kafka 74). The excerpt explains the lack of human contact that Gregor has had in the past two months and also attempts to communicate Gregor’s feelings about how his own family disregards his existence. Not only is Gregor’s transformation into a bug an important event that happens in the novel, but it triggers additional transformations in his family’s behavior throughout the rest of the novel. “He had truly not expected to see his father looking as he looked now …show more content…
self and man vs. man. Man vs. self appears in the novel when Gregor has an internal conflict with himself, such as when Gregor was worrying himself with his own thoughts and creating more issues for himself. His thoughts are discussed in the line, “here he remained the entire night, which he spent by turns dozing--though he was woken again and again by his hunger--and mulling over his worries and indistinct hopes,” (Kafka 56). Gregor also had some trouble adjusting to his new body after he had changed into a beetle, which is shown by the excerpt, “but this high open room in which he was forced lie flat on the floor distressed him, without being able to determine a cause,” (Kafka 55). In addition to man vs. self, man vs. man is present in the novel when there is physical conflict between Gregor and his father. The quote “It was an apple; and already a second one came flying after it; in horror, Gregor stopped in his tracks; there was no point in continuing now that his father had decided to bombard him,” (Kafka 83) explains the physical confrontation between his father and himself. Additionally, “Gregor tried to drag himself forward, as if this sudden shocking pain might vanish with a change of place,” (Kafka 84) describes the results of the conflict, which was caused by his father throwing apples at his
This theme is also being displayed through “after hearing his mother’s words, Gregor realized that the absence of all direct human address, combined with the monotony of life in his family’s midst, must have muddled his understanding over the course of these two months,” (Kafka 74). The excerpt explains the lack of human contact that Gregor has had in the past two months and also attempts to communicate Gregor’s feelings about how his own family disregards his existence. Not only is Gregor’s transformation into a bug an important event that happens in the novel, but it triggers additional transformations in his family’s behavior throughout the rest of the novel. “He had truly not expected to see his father looking as he looked now …show more content…
self and man vs. man. Man vs. self appears in the novel when Gregor has an internal conflict with himself, such as when Gregor was worrying himself with his own thoughts and creating more issues for himself. His thoughts are discussed in the line, “here he remained the entire night, which he spent by turns dozing--though he was woken again and again by his hunger--and mulling over his worries and indistinct hopes,” (Kafka 56). Gregor also had some trouble adjusting to his new body after he had changed into a beetle, which is shown by the excerpt, “but this high open room in which he was forced lie flat on the floor distressed him, without being able to determine a cause,” (Kafka 55). In addition to man vs. self, man vs. man is present in the novel when there is physical conflict between Gregor and his father. The quote “It was an apple; and already a second one came flying after it; in horror, Gregor stopped in his tracks; there was no point in continuing now that his father had decided to bombard him,” (Kafka 83) explains the physical confrontation between his father and himself. Additionally, “Gregor tried to drag himself forward, as if this sudden shocking pain might vanish with a change of place,” (Kafka 84) describes the results of the conflict, which was caused by his father throwing apples at his