The MetamorphsisEssay Preview: The MetamorphsisReport this essayFranz Kafka an artist of his and our time, may even be classified among Picasso. Both artists that were not recognized for their brilliant master pieces until after death. Kafka wrote a few selection of novels, The Metamorphosis was among them. A story that might portray Kafkas personal life story, about a young man, Gregor who dropped everything, to do the families biddings. Gregor Samas everyday life evolved around his family, until one day he awoke a enormous bug. Throughout the novel there are many interpretations that you may observe, alienation from his family, friends, work, and even himself. You can see role reversals, from father to son and mother to daughter. You many even see Christ as Gregor; there are many absurd details with many meanings.
As I read The Metamorphosis, I took notice to many absurd details and took in a meaning to the story. I felt that this story portrayed the true selfishness of a familys greed and what means they would go, to reach satisfaction. Mr. Sama was the father of Gregor, was greedy and selfish. He had made Gregor “believe that [he] had nothing at all left from the business” (Kafka, 29) and “[he] never told him anything to the contrary” (Kafka, 29). Doing this gave the son, Gregor no choice but to work off the fathers debt, “..almost overnight had changed from a junior clerk into a traveling salesman” (Kafka, 29) in order to completely pay it off. “[Gregors] successful efforts were immediately transformed into cash in the form of commissions” (Kafka, 29) toward the families debt. The father withdrew information from Gregor, Mr. Sama had a surplus of money that “..could have further reduced his [own] debt to [Gregors] boss” (Kafka,30) . With that money he was able “..to maintain the family for one or, at the most two years..” (Kafka, 30). Gregor knew now that “his father had arranged it” (Kafka 30). The fathers plan was to leech off of the son and not to help him pay off his own debt.
Many authors like to base their characters as someone in their own life, or even as other people, for instance Jesus Christ. I found that within the story there were many absurd details that implied Gregor as Christ. The details that show this was when, Gregor was chosen to become something that he was not for his people, as Christ was. Both had suffered enduring pain for the love of their people. Jesus Christ was pinned to a wooden cross and had a crown of thorns to suffer unbearable pain. Within the story, Gregor had suffered a similar situation, “..a splinter wounded Gregor in the face and some kind of corrosive medicine poured over him” (Kafka, 36) and was “pinned down and surrendered, all his senses fully bewildered” (Kafka, 38). As Christ walked through the town unsupportive townsmen threw rocks and debris as a form of revulsion. Gregors father was “throwing one apple after another” at Gregor with hostility and disgust. Gregor died with no loving support of his family, as Christ died with no loving support of his people. Gregor endured the worst pain of all, betrayal from his own flesh and blood.
Throughout the story Gregor was being alienated from everything including himself. For the most part he did not even have his own body, but rather trapped in a unfamiliar creature. His skeleton was no longer within flesh and blood but rather on the outside, “which was hard as armor” (Kafka, 11). He skin was no longer a fair color, his stomach was not as he remembered, “he saw his belly-rounded, brown, partitioned by arch like ridges” (Kafka, 11). He was unable to enjoy his favorite drink, “he didnt at all like the milk, which was formerly his favorite beverage” (Kafka, 25). His taste in food was much different from what he was familiar to, “a cheese that [before the transformation] [he] would of considered inedible”(Kafka, 26). “He was used to sleeping on his right side” (Kafka, 11) but no longer
”: he tried to sleep on his left, his right hand.
[A] *Caught on camera*, but it came out with such a nasty, tingly feeling that I literally couldn’t remember what’s going through his mind and what it was. [A] *Caught on video*, but it came out with such a nasty, tingly feeling that I literally couldn’t recall what’s going through his mind and what it was.
A: I want to write them all, but after reading the description, it’s clear that when we meet later on, he does NOT give a choice in the matter to be killed. He is the last one in the group, but not in a sense. (Kafka, 16, 27).
A: It is possible that the same thing happen to Gregor, who has never once seen or experienced the first time this film was made (Kafka, 5, 8).
A: The movie started out as a joke, but as a piece of work I just wanted to get rid of.
a: The whole cast has changed over the years. (Kafka, 9, 4, 10, 11).
a: We’ve gotten a long-running gag around Gregor that shows him looking out at the camera (Kafka, 10, 16, 33-37, 39).
a: Gregor was introduced as being about 4 years old, ₁.
a: After filming the movie, we shot his eyes just before his regeneration (Kafka, 40, 11).
a: We also added a little more space on his body. (Kafka, 41, 22, 33, 44, 47, 48, 49, 57, 59, 60, 61).
A: And in my opinion, this is the only way Gregor felt the pain of the moment.
A: Well, after all, it was his choice to be killed, ”.
A: It was never about what people had done to him, but when you are in this situation, you do something as a result, and the whole notion of you being angry and your right to be upset with anything is taken seriously.
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A: The way he felt during that time, he said if things continue as they were before, he will eventually die. (Kafka, 7, 33).
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a: Gregor’s reaction to the end of the movie is that he does not remember what he had done, but he realizes he really was involved, and then he begins to “puck” things at them ”.
a: This is the beginning of a pattern they’ve been following since the first movie, where he feels his emotions are very strong right after the fact. It’s a really strange way of feeling for them: they may actually feel something, ὠbut that’s not very convincing