The Metamorphosis Essay

But one day, Gregor unexpectedly turned into a bug and his family turned their back on him and inevitably betrayed him. So much so that Gregor made an executive decision to end his family’s anguish towards having a “vermin” in their house. In Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, betrayal is blatantly common theme shown throughout the novel. Betrayal is shown through society betraying Gregor due to him transforming into a bug, Gregor’s family betrayed him…

Thesis The process of devolving as being in comedic and horrifying all at once, losing their ability to reason is terrifying. Yet when presented with it within novels the idea turns any situation that is terrifying into the perfect comedic situation. The relationship between empathy and comedy is inverse, as one becomes less empathetic towards a situation the more comedic the situation becomes. The process of devolving employs this perfectly the character becomes less and less human, and…

adverse times by finding ways to make you happy through these difficult and tough times. A family does everything they can to help lead them through bad times and this theme of family relations is prevalent in “Sonny’s Blues” and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. In both works, the authors develop situations in which families had to help one another through very tough times in their life. For instance, Sonny has to deal with drugs and Gregor turns into a beetle and becomes ill. Although many…

are considered to be those who are isolated and disconnected from others. Isolation can result in different tragic outcomes, such as one being depression and in other cases even worse like committing suicide. In the Modernist short story, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka portrays a character who is treated like a bug in his day to day life and continued to be treated this way into his actual physical transformation, which lead him to make a decision that ended his life. Gregor’s life before his…

development of new experiences and knowledge about oneself. Nevertheless, some people move forward in life while other people are hindered by these problems, financially, socially, or even emotionally. In the magic realism story of Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa struggle against isolation due to his family, and the feeling of lack of acceptance. Due to Gregor’s situation, he has multiple epiphanies where he acknowledges his own self-awareness. Ultimately, Gregor succumbs to the…

Humanity demonstrates how easy it is to get into a routine, because it is something simple and comfortable to do. In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor’s death was essential to the theme, because it demonstrated many human qualities such as vulnerability and selfishness. It was imperative for him to die, because his death represents the fall of man, there was no reason left to live, but after his necrosis was taken very lightly. Gregor is a symbol of man, and the apple represents the fall…

In my IB English class, we are studying Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, in which the main character, Gregor Samsa awakes one morning “from agitated dreams” and finds “himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin” (Kafka 1). In the first pages, as Gregor contemplates his reformation personally before revealing himself to his family and boss outside his door, the fact that he has transformed into a bug remains known solely to himself, therefore existing as personal knowledge. In this…

Throughout history there remains universal themes explored in life and fiction that are not dependent on time or place. In Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis it follows Gregor Samsa, a travelling businessman who transforms into a bug. As a bug, Gregor lives an unfortunate life full of loneliness, which is barely different than his life as a human. In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron we follow the rise and fall of Harrison himself in a society where everyone is completely equal. Harrison,…

prayer, nothing is a lost cause. Yet, the sudden transformation of Gregor Samsa, in Franz Kafka’s novel, The Metamorphosis into a ghastly vermin brings no attempt from him or his family to cure him or alleviate his unfortunate situation. This kind of reaction is perplexing because of modern society 's tendency and willingness to try to fix the most dire situations. Despite the metamorphosis happening over night, the Samsa family accepts this change without any resistance and instead adapts to a…

Gregor, the main character who metamorphizes from a human to a large insect, faces a lot of miscommunication and impartial tolerance from his family members to show us how convenience can be misleading when it comes to disadvantage. Before Gregor’s transformation, he acted as the backbone of the family, a necessity: “Gregor went on to earn so much money that he was able to bear, and indeed bore, the expense of the whole family” (Kafka, 1218). According to this statement, he was a highly-valued…