Metamorphosis is a story that is easily related to this ever so cruel world and the life each of us live today. Each of us experience alienation just as Gregor did in the story. We experience from friends and even worse family. When changes arrive that we can't cope with, .
we sometimes except them grudgingly, or we simply run away from that change. What we fail to realize is the fact that the change (trial or problem) will still be there to deal with upon returning. .
Gregor Samsa had already been experiencing some alienation in the beginning. Gregor provided for his family, believing that they weren't capable of this. In being the only individual providing for his family, he .
had a slight tendency to work too hard and too much, pushing himself away from them and keeping to himself unknowingly. Gregor was working for his fathers creditor, trying to pay off a dept his father owed. He had work for .
this company for 5 years. He never missed a day and was always on time. His boss never acknowledged this, and failed to trust Gregor because he was different. Gregor .
would always do more than necessary on the job and at home. This mattered to neither his boss nor to his family. .
Gregor never had a chance to really build a social life. He was always busy with work. The only person that could be said to be close to him was his sister, who would turn on him later in the story. Upon metamorphosis, Gregor could no longer provide for himself, which wasn't a problem, or his family who, he was most worried about. From the point of this major physical change from a human to a beetle, his family starts to turn on him. This is due to the fact that Gregor had no longer acquired the ability to work to work and provide for his family. After everything he had done for his family, it seemed to hold no meaning to them. They were embarrassed and ashamed of their insect family member. Each one of the family members were proved to be ungrateful, selfish, manipulative people.
When comparing Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse and The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, both novels display protagonists who embark on a journey in search of themselves, displayed through the significant names of the characters. The Metamorphasis contains the name Gregor Samsa, which not only relates t...
Metamorphosis "When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes." Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a "monstrous vermin". The anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which fill Gregor's life, are expressed by Kafka throughout the novel, metamorphosis. ...
