Gregor Samsa

development, there are many more emotional concerns over physical ones. Although Gregor experiences many physical changes and concerns throughout the story, this short section is composed of multiple emotional contributions. The one physical concern discussed is right after the family sees Gregor’s dead body for the first time. As the family walks in and sees the body, everybody in the room is appalled by how thin Gregor looks and how different he appears. Grete, realizing how her actions could…

social order in his society and in return he lost his family, social status, and even his life. Transformation is the key reason that Gregor fell from his social order in “The Metamorphosis”. Belonging and transformation works hand in hand, one can transform into someone who belongs or transformation can be the key reason a person no longer belongs. At first Gregor fits into his society by going through his life and focusing solemnly on work. “The young man has nothing in his head…

Alfred Prufrock.” Gregor Samsa had to work a job he did not like to pay of his father’s debt and provide for his family, and, in turn, they repaid him by throwing him in the trash after he died. Gregor allowed his family to treat him horribly and never did anything about it. His family was dysfunctional to say the least and he accepted everything they did to him. Gregor did not recognize the dark aspects of both his life and family. His family…

slip off altogether, was just barley perched. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his girth, flickered helplessly before his eyes (Kafka 11).” When he had awakened he was transformed into a bug; Gregor had a hard time believe what he saw before him. Gregor response to his new transformation was quite unusually, for he was not considered the fact that he was a bug but that he wasn’t going to make it work on time. “As he glanced over towards his clock, which was ticking…

In the beginning of the story Gregor is described as “squirming” (3) and “shocked to hear his own voice,” (5) which resembles his struggle of finding out who he is because he has turned into what family/society wants him to be. The fact that he is “shocked to hear his own voice” justifies that Gregor is not only confused on he has become, but it exposes the reality that Gregor never voices his concerns on being someone he isn’t. It startles him to realize that he is a prisoner within his own…

and often see them as people of not much value. In “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka the protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up in the beginning in the story as an insect. He determines to keep living his daily life as a traveling salesman, however his family can't seem to see past Gregor’s hideous appearance, and tries to get rid of him various times throughout the story. Similar to the way Gregor is misjudged by his family, people of color and immigrants…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, a young man named Gregor struggles to support his lower class family of four. They reside in a small apartment clearly blocked out, centering around Gregor’s room. Everyone has access to his room, reflecting on his importance and the dependence everyone has on him. As the only breadwinner of the family, his financial earnings become the basis of their survival. His desire to set up his sister, Grete to chase her dreams as a musician, is the fuel to his drive…

In the first paragraph of Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis the main character, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a beetle. Most normal people would begin to panic at the thought of this, but Gregor’s first thought was how will he be able to get to work in order to provide for his family. His transfiguration symbolizes how his family and the rest of society often treated him like a contemptible insect, because as the breadwinner of the family he only served one purpose. His family only saw…

and Gogol's 'The Nose' are both novellas that centre on a bodily catastrophe. The protagonists' bodies undergo a strange change at the start of the texts, which then explore the consequences and the circumstances of the change. In 'Metamorphosis', Gregor becomes a giant insect; in 'the Nose,' Kovalyov's nose disappears from his face and reappears in…

In The Metamorphosis, Kafka showed Gregor Samsa to have existentialist ideals due to the way he viewed the world and situations he had been presented with. He had a different way of presenting those ideals by making his purpose in a seemingly purposeless world. Gregor was turned into a bug and so when he woke up he was unable to go to work. His boss came to his house and threatened to fire him. Gregor did not just let that happen though, and instead he said, “Now, sir…