His father must take a job as a doorman and when that doesn't work out, they are forced to take in boarders. These tenants treat the Samsa family as subservient, a fact that distresses Gregor: "My, what a quiet life the family used to lead." ... To them he was only a bug and not their son and brother. ... Relations between father and son had always been strained, as if all of Gregor's efforts were to receive some kind of paternal approval. ... Despite all his effort, they failed to realize that part of that insect that they had treated so cruelly was actually their son. ...

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His father must take a job as a doorman and when that doesn't work out, they are forced to take in boarders. These tenants treat the Samsa family as subservient, a fact that distresses Gregor: "My, what a quiet life the family used to lead." ... To them he was only a bug and not their son and brother. ... Relations between father and son had always been strained, as if all of Gregor's efforts were to receive some kind of paternal approval. ... Despite all his effort, they failed to realize that part of that insect that they had treated so cruelly was actually their son. ...

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The dutiful son sets out to provide for his family. ... Their son's unemployment forced her to get a job. ... Despite all his effort, they failed to realize that part of that insect that they had treated so cruelly was actually their son. ... After his metamorphosis, nobody indicated they were grateful for what he had done. ... After the transformation, Gregor's father gave little or no love or support. ...

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Gregor never treated them as one though. ... In his first incident his father cruelly beats him back into his room. ... It's my belief that the Samsa's gave up on a son that had given them everything. ... They gave up on a son that would never give up on them. ... Although they pretended it was nothing, it was what they wanted. ...

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The Metamorphosis-Research Paper The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, begins with the development of Gregory as an insect. ... His father locks him in his room and later injures him by chunking apples at him and his mother is so horrid at the sight of her son as a bug she faints; even Grete, who is close to Greg, tires of caring for him, wishing he would go away. ... His transformation forces the members of the Samsa family into the work force, and this puts Gregor's father back in charge of the household; look at what is written in the essay Education for Tragedy: "Through Gregor's m...

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Franz Kafka said, "My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast." ... His parents had always treated him as their hired help since he had taken the job to pay for his father's debts. ... Kafka shows not only a metamorphosis in Gregor, but also in his mother, father, and sister as well. ... Samsa, the father in The Metamorphosis, corresponds to Franz's real father. ... Although he thought his father would consider him an equal, and viewed his father's marriage as ideal, he did not want to risk fathering a son lik...

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His father locks him in his room; his mother faints at the mere sight of him. ... In Metamorphosis Gregor is almost enslaved by forces of materialism. ... Nothing at work satisfies him, and his boss treats him unfairly. ... As he passes into the light, Ivan finally realizes that his life was not what it should have been. ... For the first time in the novel, Ivan has expressed pity for his son and wife. ...

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Gregor relates to this symbolism because this family has always treated him the same way a person would treat an unwanted pet. The only one that seemed to treat him like a human being was his sister Grete. ... His aspiration is to help his family move forward after the catastrophe of his father's failed business and from all the money his father owes. ... At this moment Gregor realizes that he is no longer a brother or a son, he is now referred to as "it.... "He executes it by virtue of what can only be considered psychic power. ...

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After the crime he starts to suffer, and he starts feeling guilty for what he has done, he wants to confess the crime. ... He is working to pay off his father debts. ... He hates having to worry about traveling, he hates the way his boss treats him. ... When they saw that their son got transformed into a insect the family got so upset, they were thinking of who will provide them with money, they don't love their son, they see him as something low after the transformation. ... There are some similarities in Metamorphosis and in Crime and Punishment. ...

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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka tells a bizarre tale of a man who is disjoined from his family when he wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. ... In Metamorphosis after Gregor's transformation into an insect, his entire family rejects him. When his boss first sees him he runs away, his father locks him in his room and his mother faints at the sight of him. No one in his family thinks about how Gregor feels about his miserable transformation; rather they are worried about the affects of the metamorphosis on them personally. ...

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The play itself becomes a study of Greek society and what outcomes might befall its most unfortunate of victims. ... She betrayed her own father in order to help Jason win the Golden Fleece. ... For it is unlikely that the Athenians privy to watching this play ever heard the laments of a non-Athenian, and the unjust way that they felt they were treated. ... Because his "immortality is imperiled unless he can formally marry a Greek citizen, an aste from whom he can father a legitimate son". ... One questions what type of father simply bows to a rule denying him access to his own sons. ...

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She desires a true metamorphosis; to fuse into one facial image. ... One passage, from psychoanalyst Eugénie Lemoine-Luccioni's La Robe (which then became the ritual text to be read out during Orlan's public operations) was read out during the operation as Orlan receives her surgery under merely local anaesthetic " The skin is deceptive in life one only has one's skin there is an error in human relations because one never is what one has I have an angel's skin but I am a jackal a crocodile's skin but I am a puppy a black skin but I am white a woman'...

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French philosopher Alexis Carrel once said that "to what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? ... They go against what they are meant to stand for and see nothing wrong with their actions. ... It seems that when one's own property is at stake the rule on how one treats their adversary changes just slightly. ... The attempt fail piteously because Dhrtarastra's "sons, headed by Duryodhana, area acting impiously, putting behind them all considerations of morality and earthly good" (105). ... He is justifying his actions, and altering what he knows to be mora...

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