Waking up to find yourself in a completely different body has to be hard, but when you are no longer in a human body, everything becomes more difficult. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Gregor wakes up to find himself transformed into a bug. With Kafka’s background in reading the Word of God, this novel has been compared to the Bible because Grete played a similar role to Judas, Gregor’s downfall was brought by an apple, his family does not care for him before he dies.
In a way, his sister acted as though she was a fake person, behaving the same way as Judas in Biblical terms. Grete would take care of Gregor when she would bring in food and milk for him to feed from. She also cleaned his room to make sure he was not living in a pig stye. Grete loved him enough to take full responsibility for him in the beginning of the book. After a while, however, she began to lose interest in making sure he was well fed and would “hurriedly shove any old food into Gregor’s room with her foot” (Kafka 43) instead of taking the bowl carefully in and out of his room. Because there wasn’t any reason to clean …show more content…
Although the Bible does not make it clear as to what kind of fruit this was, most people distinguish it as being an apple. Being this as it was, Gregor’s father threw a couple apples at him while they were in an argument. The first apple bounced off his back, but the second apple stuck straight into his back. This apple not only represented the downfall of human happiness, but also represented how the Earth is becoming corrupt when “the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one had dared to remove it” (Kafka 41). Because apples eventually go rotten, especially with damage inflicted on it, the world today is rotting from everything wicked and immoral. The ruining of Gregor was brought by the same object as the human’s downfall; a
In a way, his sister acted as though she was a fake person, behaving the same way as Judas in Biblical terms. Grete would take care of Gregor when she would bring in food and milk for him to feed from. She also cleaned his room to make sure he was not living in a pig stye. Grete loved him enough to take full responsibility for him in the beginning of the book. After a while, however, she began to lose interest in making sure he was well fed and would “hurriedly shove any old food into Gregor’s room with her foot” (Kafka 43) instead of taking the bowl carefully in and out of his room. Because there wasn’t any reason to clean …show more content…
Although the Bible does not make it clear as to what kind of fruit this was, most people distinguish it as being an apple. Being this as it was, Gregor’s father threw a couple apples at him while they were in an argument. The first apple bounced off his back, but the second apple stuck straight into his back. This apple not only represented the downfall of human happiness, but also represented how the Earth is becoming corrupt when “the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one had dared to remove it” (Kafka 41). Because apples eventually go rotten, especially with damage inflicted on it, the world today is rotting from everything wicked and immoral. The ruining of Gregor was brought by the same object as the human’s downfall; a