Cockroach

How would you feel if you woke up as a big humongous cockroach? In The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka, one of the main characters, Gregor Samsa, turns into one. Gregor and I share some similarities when it comes to family and work. What makes us different is our families income class. I agree with Gregor’s decision that he was becoming a burden to his own family. However, what I disagree with was Gregor’s decision to stop eating in order to kill himself. What I would have done differently than…

Escapism comes in the form of the actual transformation into a cockroach. The day after Gregor’s family discovers that he is an insect, he waits for the house to empty in order to explore, and feels a sense of ease and affluence (Kafka 214). Gregor, post-transformation, acquires perspective and knowledge in his altered…

Franz Kafka himself has actually suffered from abuse. These experiences helped paint the images of Gregor's abuse so thoroughly throughout the book. Physical abuse is very prominent early on in the book. Gregor has over night turned into a cockroach. A nasty, disgusting, bug. Of course, when he comes out of his room in the morning, the entire family is in shock and scared. They don't know what happened, but they know that thing is their son. Mr. Samsa (Gregor's Father), is the first to…

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is a short story that enunciates certain psychological aspects of his life and influences the life of his character, Gregor Samsa. Franz Kafka often wrote short stories such as these because that was his way of expressing his emotions that he could not express elsewhere because of his father. His father was a large, successful business man who would often disapprove of Kafka for being himself, and not being the man he wanted him to become. He forced Kafka to…

Introduction: Termites also called white ants or wood bugs are descendants of wood cockroach like insects and a sister group with the cockroach genus “Cryptocercus”. Due to their diverse diet, social structures, and phenotypes, termites are important organisms for economic and ecological reasons such as contributing to the decomposition of dead vegetation and enriching the soil. However, its well-known ability to damage human structures and agricultural crops, continue to cause billions of…

Then when the headmaster found them, they accused her of being sexually curious. After which, Donna was isolated from her friends. Now Gregor ended become a cockroach which helps show how the bullying could cause isolation. Bullying causes isolation because it makes the victim feel they aren’t worth anything, like who Gregor felt as a cockroach. Our current society is mostly influenced by our past, same goes for our problem with the abuse of…

Authors use genres and characters to develop a theme. Sometimes different main characters can be used to build the same theme. In the poem, “the lesson of the moth,” poet Don Marquis uses the main character, a moth, to teach the narrator Archy, a cockroach, what it is like to have a dream worth dying for. Similarly, Daniel Keyes, author of “Flowers for Algernon,” uses the protagonist Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged person, who longs to be more intelligent, to develop the idea that good…

fired instantly. He is not saying that he would like to be fired(he would probably be happier if he was), but is simply working to help his parents pay of an accrued debt. Gregor continues to change even after his physical transformation into a cockroach, as his appearance shapes the way he thinks through new needs and behaviors. Gregor says, “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” Despite the fact that he…

Day 625 : The rats are still in the cage, until a boy walked up to the cage and transfers the rats into another , smaller cage. Probably so the boy can clean the cage. Well, the rats were smarter than the boy, and the rats escaped. "Freedom!" Yelled sycorax while they were running for the exit of the building. After they were freed they traveled far, but at some point they settled down at the house of a military veteran named Joey. He had a small family. He has a son named Shaun, a wife named…

techniques in his short story The Metamorphosis, he not only demonstrates dehumanization in the 20th century but also asserts the meaning of humanity into the theme. Beginning the story with Gregor Samsa finding himself transformed into a monstrous cockroach, it seems dreamlike. The narrator quickly…