Gregor Samsa

peculiar events. For example, in “A Country Doctor,” the protagonist, a doctor in a small village, is stripped naked and lay next to his patient, and the patient’s family sings a religion-like song. On the other hand, in Metamorphosis, a protagonist, Gregor Samsa, turns into a large insect. In both stories, there is a theme that features the protagonist’s…

Metamorphosis, The stranger, and Hunger. Main characters, Gregor Samsa, Meursault, and Bobby Sands embrace the ideas of existentialism and live their lives in a completely different way than their peers. Although the characters live in separate settings and time periods from one another, the characters connect through their actions…

In Metamorphosis, Kafka depicts change as an annoying obstacle that should be evaded. The man character, Gregor Samsa spends his days as a salesperson to repay his parent 's debt to his boss. He is a dedicated and selfless worker and the author shows that he is compassionate to his loved ones such as his family even though he loathes his career. In the passage…

In doing this the protagonist, Gregor Samsa accepts the absurdism of life but he, unfortunately, dies at the end of the story. In the beginning, Gregor wakes up and notices that he has transformed into a giant insect. As he tries to roll out of bed he begins to remember how much he hates his job as a traveling salesman. Gregor states that traveling takes much more effort than “doing [his] own business at home, and on top of that…

Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby 's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka, published in 1915 is about a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa…

in the stories “The Metamorphosis,” “A Hunger Artist,” and “In the Penal Colony.” In all three of these stories, a character must endure physical constraints and harm in order to realize their true goals of spiritual contentedness. In the case of Gregor, while the question of whether his metamorphosis is a figment of imagination or a literal one is unanswered, this change in his body is what leads him to mental and spiritual transcendence. In the case of the hunger artist, while he seeks to…

ignoring the end of existence. After Gregor dies in The Metamorphosis, the cleaning lady tells his family to come and look. The narrator states, “Grete, not without looking back at the corpse, followed her parents into their bedroom” (Kafka 52). Throughout Gregor’s transformation, Grete empathizes the most with Gregor, giving him food and cleaning him. However, Grete becomes more distant from Gregor the more Gregor pains and inconveniences the family. When Gregor finally dies, Grete only…

Freedom and control cannot coexist in the same space because they contradict one another. According to Webster-Merriam dictionary, freedom is “the quality or state of being free: as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action” whereas control is “directing something’s actions or functions; to cause something to act or function in a certain way.” In terms of political ideologies, Fascism and Laissez Faire Capitalism are prime examples of control and freedom. Fascism,…

was featured in a documentary series by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In the documentary, Rose talks about how she got stares practically everywhere she went. She really had no way to work at a normal job, like Gregor Samsa in the story, The Metamorphosis. In the story, Samsa is unable to work because of a new physical appearance brought upon him. Even though it's not as extreme as having tumors covering your body, or having no legs, people with scars can be misjudged too. When I was in…

Kafka, Gregor, a middle aged man living at home with his two parents and his younger sister, is the sole provider for his family. One morning, Gregor wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a bug, and his family’s greatest fears are met. Normally, people would analyze Kafka’s work and find that Kafka illustrates the unfortunate and difficult decisions between caring for a family member that is in trouble, or leaving them to their own devices. But what if someone thought that Gregor…