Isolation In Kafka's The Metamorphosis

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In Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, Kafka compared the existence of modern man to the lifestyle and existence of Gregor in his bug form.For instance, Kafka correlated the isolation of Gregor to all of the mankind. Gregor has the personal need of isolating himself by “locking all of the doors at night, even at home,”(Kafka 8). Gregor had the tendency to isolate himself and his feelings from the world and his family. Gregor's actions parallel themselves to the rest of mankind. It is common to see man suppress their being and feelings from others.In another comparison, Kafka used the new voice of Gregor to further juxtapose Gregor's state and mankind. Gregor attempted to talk but found out that his words are“distorted...in the reverberation,”(Kafka

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