Between ‘Metamorphosis’ by Frank Kafka and Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’, the demonstration of alienation and isolation between Gregor Samsa and Bartelby is quite an evident premise, leading both literary pieces to account for one thing; getting pushed away causes loneliness and loneliness is paired more often than not, with death.
The living dead is an exceptional way to explain the way Gregor and Bartelby were going about their lives, spiraling into a more and more depressed state as time went on, neither getting the satisfaction they were seeking. For Gregor, his general sadness seemed to peek even before he had turned into a bug. For him, being the sole provider for his family seemed enough to make him a tiny bit deranged, as his first thoughts when he noticed he had turned into a bug was his worry of how he would be able to carry on his regular working …show more content…
“It was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.” (491) Despite this sounding like it is out of a Jane Austen novel, it is merely just the way the narrator sees and connects to Bartelby. The reader feels sympathy, frustration and heartbreak over Bartelby just as the narrator does. Ironic, seeing as the narrator and Bartelby had no other relations besides boss and employee whilst the Samsa family easily dismissed their own son because he had changed into something they could no longer understand. Gregor became the bottom of the food chain, literally and figuratively, when he turned into a bug, despite how much he had done for his family previously. It seems that Gregor’s only importance was when he was supporting his family and he was easily ignored because of they way he looked and what he had become, as if it erased all the historical efforts Gregor had done for his
The living dead is an exceptional way to explain the way Gregor and Bartelby were going about their lives, spiraling into a more and more depressed state as time went on, neither getting the satisfaction they were seeking. For Gregor, his general sadness seemed to peek even before he had turned into a bug. For him, being the sole provider for his family seemed enough to make him a tiny bit deranged, as his first thoughts when he noticed he had turned into a bug was his worry of how he would be able to carry on his regular working …show more content…
“It was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.” (491) Despite this sounding like it is out of a Jane Austen novel, it is merely just the way the narrator sees and connects to Bartelby. The reader feels sympathy, frustration and heartbreak over Bartelby just as the narrator does. Ironic, seeing as the narrator and Bartelby had no other relations besides boss and employee whilst the Samsa family easily dismissed their own son because he had changed into something they could no longer understand. Gregor became the bottom of the food chain, literally and figuratively, when he turned into a bug, despite how much he had done for his family previously. It seems that Gregor’s only importance was when he was supporting his family and he was easily ignored because of they way he looked and what he had become, as if it erased all the historical efforts Gregor had done for his