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    Schizophrenia is a devastating disorder that cost over $60 billion in the United States alone. A disease as devastating as schizophrenia puts most families in a terrible situation. In the book, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa believes that he transformed into a bug and is clearly suffering from schizophrenia evident to cognitive, behavioral, and psychological symptoms that was shown throughout the book. In the very beginning of the book the easiest symptom to identify is cognitive. One of the…

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    Franz Kafka the author of “The Metamorphosis” portrayed the change or the metamorphosis of the Samsa family. Gregor Samsa (The main character) literally changes from a human into a bug, however his relationships relatively remain the same. In contrast, the rest of Gregor’s family remains humans, but undergo a certain metamorphosis of their own. It seems due to Kafka’s background that he was writing a story similar to his own in which he feels disconnected from the world and his family.…

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    realizes that Gregor cannot not provide for the family anymore and steps in to support them. Compared to his previous lackadaisical state, Gregor’s father is now ready to work at any moment. Furthermore, Mr. Samsa takes the role of “man of the house” into his own hands. For example, Mr. Samsa shows great ambition in trying to return Gregor back into his room after his escape. Gregor is astonished by his father’s new drive and questions whether this is actually him (15, Kafka). Then, Mr.…

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    away. Grete Samsa lives in a poor family but luckily was able to depend on her older brother Gregor, who gave up his dreams in order to provide for his family. In the novel The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning finding himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. He could not leave his room in this gruesome state, and therefore could no longer go to work. What Grete feared the most was losing her provider and no longer having the security and dependence on someone else. Gregor…

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    superior because Yaron and Herzog compare Samsa to a ruin and how they can relate to one another. The first article uses historical criticism because ruins are a part of history and Samsa is like a ruin.…

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    place around the turn of the twentieth century, “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking from anxious dreams, he discovered in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug” (Kafka 1). Gregor Samsa is isolated from society before his transformation into a bug. He worked as a traveling salesman, a job he intensely loathes, which provides no satisfaction for human social needs and close relationships. With his metamorphosis, Gregor is taken further away from humanity. He is trapped inside…

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    In The Metamorphosis, a novel by Franz Kafka, the protagonist Gregor Samsa Wakes up to realize he is an insect. The tragedy of a working man that maintains his family and that later turns into a useless insect can symbolize the typical male figures worst nightmare, being unable to support his family financially. The figure of an insect can symbolize a similar “disease” that the protagonist on “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was suffering from. In the “Gender and Pathology In…

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    the telling of a pivotal point in Gregor Samsa’s life where the ‘Fictional world that didn’t exist before’ (Eagleton, 2013, p. 8) is inaugurated. We are told initially that Gregor Samsa ‘awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach’ (Kafka, Hofmann, 2007, p. 87). This opening establishes the supernatural transformation,…

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    Gregor Samsa conveys to the reader that, “He could not be bothered to worry about his family; he was filled with rage at their miserable treatment of him” (Part III). This indicates that internal changes occurred within the family which caused Gregor to feel this way about them. Although Gregor undergoes the main metamorphosis in the novella The Metamorphosis, two secondary characters also transform throughout the story and they have a major influence on the story and develop crucial themes.…

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    Acclaimed writer Franz Kafka wrote many books. In his books, he compared a lot of things.In the book metamorphosis, he illustrates Gregor Samsa as a bug by describing his life as miserable, how he was treated and the lonely he was. Gregor’s life resembles a bug’s life because his life was despicable, In a human’s perspective the life of an insect is miserable, and Gregor's life was miserable.Gregor Samsa’s life was miserable because he didn’t like his job and he couldn’t quit, because he was…

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