Category: Kafka

Love, respect, and forgiveness are the fundamental values that every family should have. When a member of the family goes through a change, they should still stick with them, without giving up, trying to understand and make a difference. However, in Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis, it isn’t the case. As Gregor transforms into a vermin, his family slowly gives up on him since he’s no longer considered human to their eyes. Kafka uses the character of Gregor in his novella ‘Metamorphosis’ to show the transformation of each member of his family due to Gregor’s new form. The author wants to show us society’s inhumanity and how one fact can change people’s lives.

In the beginning, Gregor goes through a physical change “He lay on his hard armorlike back and when he raised his head a little he saw his vaulted brown belly divided into sections by stiff arches”. Nonetheless, he still prioritizes his family first over his own state because he knows he was the only provider for the family, and they all depend on him. He is considered somehow as the father of a family, even going through hard times, he is determined to aid them in any way possible in order to cause less struggle. “For now he must lie low and try, through patience and the greatest consideration, to help his family bear the inconvenience he was bound to cause them in his present condition.” A bug isn’t supposed to work and think, but Gregor still has human thoughts about how to earn money in his new form and how it would infuriate his boss. He stays in his room and thinks about ways to not disappoint them. However, as the story continues, Gregor experiences a notable change mentally. He is no longer concerned about his insect appearance as he climbs walls and scares his family. Why would Gregor treat them in the right way if he wasn’t receiving equitable respect? “His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.” his personality is being compared from the beginning of the novella when he cared about everyone, but now he goes out of his room sometimes knowing that it would scare his mother. Since no one cared about him, he felt that his identity as a son and a brother were slowly fading away. However, Gregor’s transformation also transforms his family’s thoughts about him. To them, he’s just a ghastly and repulsive beast, that receives isolation and hate.

After her brother’s transformation, the first effect it had on Grete was when she first showed some kind of sympathy and awareness. She gives herself the role of taking care of him, as she feeds him twice a day and cleans his room. “When she noticed him underneath the sofa she slammed the door shut from the outside. But as if regretting her behavior, she instantly reopened it and tiptoed in” Kafka shows a contrast of sonority between the words slammed and tiptoed. Here, Grete couldn’t accept his new form yet. As a reader, we would expect her to scream in disgust, slam the door in fright and run away, but instead, she tries to ignore the fact and treats him with attention by tiptoeing back into his room. This shows that she is a strong person, and no matter what she is facing, she copes with the problem and overcomes it because when the rest of the family stayed distant from the repelling insect, she put her fear aside and tries her best to be helpful.

Though as the days go by, she feels that he has become a burden to the whole family, Gregor is no longer considered like her brother, and she wants him gone. “My dear parents, things can’t go on like this I refuse to pronounce my brother’s name in front of this monstrosity: We have to get rid of it” The word ‘it’ suggests his dehumanization because a human can’t be referred to this word. With her new responsibility, she begins to metamorphose, she likes the idea of having control and just can’t stand Gregor anymore. She now makes an announcement in front of the whole family concerning her brother, she has authority and power, whereas, in the beginning, she was simply a shy and quiet little girl. She changed from a 17 years old teen to a grown woman ready to start her own life. At the end of the story, Frau and Herr both thought about how it was finally time for her to find herself a husband.

At last, Gregor’s transformation also has an effect on his parents, but perhaps relatively less significant as they were already. They were already accustomed to using Gregor as a source of income and had minimal interaction with their son. Herr Samsa isn’t the best father a child could ask for. Throughout the novel, Herr becomes impatient and preposterous when it comes to dealing with Gregor. “When his father gave him a terrific shove from behind and he flew, bleeding profusely, far into the room.” The choice of the phrase: “flew, bleeding profusely far” infers that Herr becomes uncontrollable when it comes to deal with his vermin son. He’s filled with rage and his only goal is to get rid of Gregor. This shows the reader how pathetic and careless he was as a father. He realizes how much his father has changed as he became more active than before. He used to sit on the couch at home whereas after he bombarded Gregor with apples, he started to work. We learn that Herr could have actually worked but had forced Gregor to provide for everyone. This plot point suggests a sadistic view of Kafka on society, in which people take advantage of others. He could be referring to his own life where he had an unsupportable and distressing relationship with his father.

To conclude, not only did Gregor go through a metamorphosis, but his family also goes through a significant change. They gradually lost interest and heedfulness for the member that was the most caring of all. He wouldn’t complain either would he take a day off in his five years of working as a traveling salesman. That was the sacrifice he had made for them and a physical transformation had made the family detest him. The sister and the parents have decided to continue their life without the presence of Gregor, as he was now a bug. It’s as if they’ve got rid of the problem, and they could now live in harmony and start off a new life with the idea that Gregor was already dead. “Then all three left the apartment together, which they had not done in months, and took a trolley to the countryside on the outskirts of town.”

Their metamorphosis has changed them in two ways, negatively because they abandoned Gregor, but positively because they’re now even closer and spending more time together, whereas before they each had minimal interactions in the house. They were held back when Gregor transformed into an insect, but his death has freed them from the burden. As a matter of fact, they can’t actually be blamed for losing hope in Gregor and starting off a new life without him considering that communication wasn’t possible anymore. Towards the end “Gregor seduced by the playing had ventured farther forward” This links to the last phrase of the essay, because if he was completely an insect, music wouldn’t move him at all. We end the novella by having all sorts of questions. At some point, was Gregor indeed still human, or even a family member, or was he completely metamorphosed?

Have you ever seen a human transform into a monstrous verminous bug in real life and act like one? In the metamorphosis book Kafka In the Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka introduces us to the main character Gregor Samsa that turned into a dangerous harmful bug after his anxious dreams. Gregor hates his job but keeps it because of the obligations he feels to pay off his father’s debt and care for his family. Gregor woke up as an insect because of his behavior, the way he is mistreated and ignored in the family, his human actions, and his emotions. When he turns into a monstrous bug he can’t perform any human actions but he still has kindful human thoughts. Gregor felt isolated from the world and society because his family disregards his life both in human and insect form. They reject his humanity and often isolate him from reality and the outside by locking him away in a secluded room.

When Gregor Samsa first appears in the story as the main character, he always felt isolated from society and was mistreated by his parents although he was their sole provider. He has endured stress, missed train connections, bad food, fleeting love affairs, and insomnia. Gregor felt important, “ But at least people now thought that things were not all right with him and were prepared to help him” (Kafka 18), Gregor thought that his family finally realized someone was wrong with him and were ready to help because they care about him. what if they are worried he is going to miss work and get fired and no they don’t care about him they are just selfish and want money? He felt included once again in the circle of humanity and was expecting from both the doctor and the locksmith, without differentiating between them with any real precision, splendid and surprising results. In order to get as clear a voice as possible for the critical conversation that was imminent, he coughed a little. His father was concerned but yet never had the ability to interact with Gregor because of his unbelievable metamorphosis. As stated in the metamorphosis novel, Gregor’s father had even been violent in nature towards Gregor before, or at the least threatening, as was evident when he first saw that Gregor had changed into a bug, and his initial response was that he “looked hostile and clenched a fist as if to force Gregor back into his room”(Kafka 10). His mom was always scared of his transformation and never wanted to see her son in bug form, so they decide to lock and seclude him in a room. Gregor begins to feel alienated from his family, but Gregor has always felt isolated at his job as a traveling salesman long before his absurd transformation. As stated in The metamorphosis book, Gregor felt that his constant travel allows him to make only “ casual acquaintances that are always new and never become intimate friends” (Kafka 28).

He felt isolated his whole life and his family didn’t try to help him but instead they locked him in a room because they can’t handle and look at his horrifying transformation without panicking. He does his best to appease the sensibilities of the others in the house by hiding under furniture in his room when others might accidentally catch sight of him. Grete enters his room regularly to feed him, and she seems genuinely concerned for his well-being at first, but she recoils at his appearance. ”She did not see him at once, yet when she caught sight of him under the sofa, she was so startled that without being able to help it she slammed the door shut again.” (Kafka 15) She wasn’t able to control her expressions and feelings towards his horrifying metamorphosis. Finally, Gregor was the closest to his sister, when Gregor was felt isolated his younger kind-hearted sister Grete helped him feel less isolated and showed him that she cares about him and would still send him food no matter what form he was in.

Franz Kafka was born into a Jewish family on July 3, 1883, and passed away on June 3, 1924. During his youth years, Franz spent most of his time focusing on his writing. However, he died shortly after of tuberculosis. The fictional novel ‘the metamorphosis was written by Franz Kafka and is commonly known for Kafka’s best literary works because of his strategy to embody his own life in connection with the protagonist in metamorphosis. This novel mentions Kafka’s personal life into a fantasy story with fictional characters. It demonstrates the difficulties of living in the modern world which at that time was and the struggle for acceptance of others when at the moment of need. During Franz’s years, different motives have led him into writing this novel and relating the characters with his own life. The author, Franz Kafka himself, uses descriptive words to emphasize his emotions towards the character. The main motives include Franz’s relationship with his father and family, his job, and symbolism which has a major impact on the book.

The Metamorphosis is a short story in which a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, turns into a monstrous vermin as he woke up. The story mentions self-disgust about the betrayal of his family and regarding the horrid arbitrary power. As this monstrous vermin crawl on the floor, he is at risk of being stepped on by his father. His family oversees very well without him. They confine Gregor to his room and throw rubbish at him. The family holds a gathering and concludes that this ‘creature’ has to be gone. Gregor listens discreetly and dies after. The family becomes slightly ashamed of themselves, but only slightly.

Franz had a difficult relationship with his family, mainly with his father. His mother, Julie Kafka, was a committed homemaker who lacked the intellectual depth to comprehend her child’s fantasies to turn into a writer. His father, Hermann Kafka, had a strong commanding character that frequently overpowered the Kafka home. He was successful in his business, making his living retailing people’s clothes. Throughout the novel, the relationship between Gregor and his father is in some ways related to Franz Kafka and his father, Herman. By writing this novel, Franz makes these similarities and difficulties apparent and he uses specific expressions to describe each character. The protagonist, Gregor, is shown to be pushed by anonymous forces which in this case his father is the force. Thus, showing that he went through loneliness depression and implied his feelings to the character. As the reader meets Gregor Samsa’s father, it is indicated how easily he is provoked to anger. The father, Mr. Samsa, went murmuring like a wild man when Gregor first left his room in his new state as a bug. ‘With a hostile expression, his father clenched his fist, as if to drive Gregor back into his room, then looked uncertainly around the living room, shielded his eyes with his hands, and sobbed with heaves of his powerful chest.’ Simply, this indicates how indistinguishable Mr. Samsa and Hermann Kafka are. During Franz Kafka’s years, he was exposed to abuse and constant hollering from his dad since he was a disappointment in his eyes and could not meet his expectations. When Mr. Samsa sees what has occurred to his son, he is promptly outraged. Gregor’s father was retired and his younger sister was as yet youthful and not working. ‘Besides, I also have my parents and my sister to worry about. I’m in a tight spot, but I’ll also work my way out again. Don’t make things harder for me than they already are.’ It is shown that Gregor felt as if he had let the family down. He figured it would be hard for his family to be financially secure without him working. Ad this indicates how he does not have any human rights and is slowly being dehumanized throughout the story. ‘If only his father did not keep making this intolerable hissing sound! It made Gregor lose his head completely.’ The feeling of aloneness and not being accepted entered his thoughts as no one seemed no care about him. These feelings could have been similar to feelings of loneliness that Kafka felt in his own life after mistreatment from his father. Throughout the metamorphosis, it is obvious that Franz Kafka was writing a story of his own twisted life. The mental and physical abuse that Gregor went through is the same as what Kafka has experienced. Both Gregor and Kafka were abused and neglected by their fathers. Kafka uses Gregor changing into a bug as a way of exaggerating himself, attempting to express his emotions through Gregor. Therefore, the story of metamorphosis is related to Kafka’s personal life and how he interpreted his feelings to the characters.

Throughout Kafka’s life, he has been to many different jobs such as a lawyer, insurance broker, screenwriter, and author. Whenever Kafka advised his dad that he wanted to become a writer, not a shop owner, his father got very irritated and mistreated him. Thus, Kafka spent most of his life living the expectations of his father which he couldn’t fulfill in some cases. During the metamorphosis, Gregor is shown to have no human rights as mentioned before. ‘What a grueling job I’ve picked!’, ‘if I didn’t hold back for my parent’s sake, I would’ve quit long ago.’ This indicates that Gregor’s parents do not care about the emotions of their son and only want him for his work. Thus, Gregor becomes dehumanized and cannot live with his freedom. And it is shown that Gregor is only working for his parents and has given up on his own human life. The character, Gregor, isn’t living for himself, he’s been DE individuated.

The metamorphosis mentions different symbols such as the picture of the woman in furs, the father’s uniform, and food. As mentioned in the beginning, the image of the lady in fur is a symbol of Gregor’s previous humankind. ‘Over the table, on which an unpacked line of fabric samples was all spread out – Samsa was a traveling salesman – hung the picture which he had recently cut out of a glossy magazine and lodged in a pretty gilt frame. It showed a lady done up in a fur hat and a fur boa, sitting upright and raising against the viewer a heavy fur muff in which her whole forearm had disappeared.’ This represents feminity and has a sexual view. In this case, this image of the charming lady was appealing towards Gregor and his desires while the fur she wears could represent wealth to Gregor. He views this image as one object from his previous life that he could spare and shows that he once had a life with his manhood.

The uniform the dad wears for his job symbolizes his pride and dignity, as well as Gregor’s feelings of pity and respect for him. During the story, the reader mainly views the father from Gregor’s perspective and how he describes the father as short-tempered. Throughout the chapters of the book, we find out the failure of the father’s business and he was in debt. Through Gregor, it is shown that he views his father as a discouraged man whom he does not respect. As the story goes on, the father is seen wearing his uniform in the evening as he is sleeping. Therefore, the dignity the uniform passed on to the father disintegrates, and Gregor once again looks at him with pity.

Food symbolizes the way the Samsa Family members feel towards Gregor. Grete is the only family member Gregor feels closest to and cares very much. Grete is seen in chapter two where she leaves milk and bread for Gregor, representing sympathy to him after his transformation. When she realizes that Gregor hasn’t eaten anything, she brings out various foods for him to eat. However, the family starts losing enthusiasm towards him and eventually stop caring about him. Eating is a symbol of greed, pleasure, and enjoyment. As shown in the story, Gregor eventually likes eating a lot and he starts to enjoy it. Franz has suffered from an illness during 1924, he developed laryngeal tuberculosis that prevented him from eating anything without huge pain. He shortly died after.

In conclusion, we’ve learned that Kafka’s world isn’t very pleasant through his writings such as The Metamorphosis. The psychology of each novel he wrote is directly related to his family, specifically his father. There were different motifs as to why he wrote metamorphoses such as his relationship with his father, his job, and many more. The story also emphasized different symbols such as eating, the father with his uniform, and the lady in the fur coat. Kafka has once mentioned that literature must reconnect us with feelings and emotions that may be unendurable to ponder yet need our attention. His stories were the most touching, heartbreaking, and disheartening stories.

Novella, “The Metamorphosis” is written by Fanze kafka, he was short story writer and German novelist, it was published in 1915. It was Kafka’s famous work. It is basically about salesman, named Gregor Samsa. One morning he gets up and discovers that he was changed completely and became an insect. And, the short story ‘The Nose’ by Nikolai Gogol, written during his time living in St. Petersburg. It was written somewhere 1835 and 1836, it is about St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. In The metamorphosis and the nose, the body of the main characters changed terribly. This brutal change makes a negative effect on their social rank.

They woke up and discover the brutal change in their lives, the main characters of both of the stories uncover the most private elements of their personalities. Both the writers disclose the harsh fact invisible in the daily routine via unusual stories. Under the pressure of the bodily conversion, the main characters Gregor and Kovalyov undergo revelation, that in turn leads to them transiting their mental boundaries and illuminate their moralities and sins. Before the bodily conversion

Gregor is a modest slave of the situations, developed by the family of Gregor, his manager friends. He never thought of anything more than a limited context. Gregor not for a moment ponder about himself and dedicates his existence to his family. Gregor looked forward into the gloom, he became extremely arrogant that he is worthy to give his family the life of luxury. Gregor keep pondering about his sister and parents but he also realizes that his family doesn’t want or need him anymore . A comparable transition depicted in “The Nose”: the main character Kovalyov can’t visualize himself beyond his formal social environment. The writers Kafka and Gogol have stylistic resemblances in common, also both of the authors use components of the metaphysical and the bizarre, however, they do, vary subtly and essentially on the significant theme of their stories.

Kovalev’s course of life is to exist for only himself and for the benefits of his own. His longings are to go up the bureaucratic staircase or wanted to getting married to a rich girl: “Major Kovalev came to Petersburg on business, to wit, to look for a post… girl with a fortune of two hundred thousand” . When he missed his nose, it actually deters him from achieving on either count and erodes the whole criterion of his upcoming life. Therefore, there is one more resemblance between the main characters of both the stories, beyond the transition of social status after drastic bodily conversions, that is, both of them were no longer able to survive their traditional life, and it suggests a big challenge to their personality. Both the writers put their main characters under drastic problem and compel them to traverse the limitations of their old lives.

Gogol and Kovalev encounter their challenges in their suitable ways, it enables the reader to comprehend their real identities. Gregor acknowledges his disaster submissively. He is self-reflecting and concealing, still proceeds to consider about his family only. Nonetheless, his life alters fast. Nobody liked and wanted him anymore. This leads to surprising disclosures, a sudden discovery in his awareness of family relations and to an ultimate revelation. Nobody admired his initial sacrifices, He is deceived. In spite of the surprising reality, Gregor stays calmly in the limitations of his decency. Conversely, Kovalev handles his problems in a very considerable way: he examines the mails evaluated ads and protest out loud.

Throughout the novel he didn’t remains stagnant, and he was active throughout the novel. He rejects to acknowledge his fate and all set to utilize of whatever means are accessible just to get back his nose. Major Kovalev disclose at every point what are the actual values for him, a fortunate wedding and not love , a prosperous business and not struggle, not near connections with kith and kins, but conventional social status.

He didn’t realize , and crosses the borders of morality and discloses himself as a man who has no real human values by his unstable behaviour. Via the context of insanity and misshapen we discover about the main characters suddenly a lot than in everyday situations, and now we can discern how unique the personalities are.

The bodily changeover arouse both the characters. The writers emphasize this by rousing the protagonists in the starting of the stories. When we read the story further, we can comprehend that it is a phony awakening and that Gregor goes on to sleep, but it is waking up from very long sleep. He roused to facts that he never see prior, or may be feigned not to see. Nobody loved him, even prior to became a bug. Gregor’s family wants him just because he is doing a lot for his family. When he transforms to a bug, it symbolizes his ethical awakening as if it was his journey from a dream to reality. On the face of it, the issue of Kovalev is very similar, the condition is very ridiculous, that the reader and Kovalev does not accept that this is just a prolonged dream. Nonetheless, as the story goes further , the readers comprehends that this is surely a strange truth of the St- Petersburg community. However, Kovalev cannot rise to that reality, he goes on to live his daily life and does not undergo the moral change. Also, in the end of the story, Gogol enables him to come back to his sleep. Gregor traverses the limitations of his dream and ends up in a harsh truth, on the other hand the writer politely sent Kovalev back to sleep because he is not incompetent of a true revelation. “He will go on to live as he sleeps and sleeps as he lives”. Therefore, this illustrates the main distinction in both the stories.

For both of the protagonists, the bodily conversion happens to a distinct extent, Gregor wakes up to actuality, unable to tolerate it and lose his life. Conversely, Kovalev goes on to sleep undaunted by his strange bodily change. Viewed in this way, to cross the limitations is extremely drastic for Gregor than for Kovalev in the mental and physical sense. However, Gregor stays within the horizons of his politeness. On the other side of the coin, Kovalyov is politely left within his formal realm, his miseries proceed for little time and not too long without leaving any affect on his life. In this little amount of time, he discloses his real personality and does not transit the limitations of his normal attitude. For the revelation of Gregor amounts to epiphany; and it is a disclosure of personality for Kovalev.

The works of both the authors “Gogol and Kafka” mostly focus on the absurd. Both writers, via their use of dreams illustrate insanity/absurdity apparently unrelated truths, and different structures. What precisely both the writer implies by the absurd differs a little but if examined in their entirety, both the authors have a lot of resemblances. Kafka and Gogol are both strange writers, “but genius is always strange”

Inspiration can take many forms. It awakens the mind the mind and soul, compelling an artist forward in the work. It is not only a copy as some would think, but rather and adaptation and progression of the original inspiring piece. Franz Kafa was clearly inspired by Ovid’s “The Transformation of Arachne into a spider” in his novel, The metamorphosis. But his expression of transformation is more than a simple copy of Ovid’s origin text. He clearly adapts and moves forward from the original myth. Kafa draws on Ovid’s punitive use of a metamorphosis. Nut he transforms the myth into a magical realism by reproduce the life and destiny of the begin who transformed while Ovid only characterize the acts of the transformation.

In Ovid’s “The Transformation of Arachne into a spider”, Arachne is changed into a spider by pallas as punishment for challenging that her weaving skills were far superior to those of the goddess. Archne boasts, “Let her Contend with me. There is nothing which, if conquered, I should refuse to endure.” After completing the weaving challenge, Pallas declares, “Life on indeed, wicked one, but still hang, and let the same decree of punishment be pronounced against thy race.” The goddess the showers Arachne with a magic with a magic herb and she is transformed into a spider. In the Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa awakens, “transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” Although no explicit cause is given for Gregor’s metamorphosis, his feelings about his work and his boss are made clear. “If I didn’t have my parents to think, tell him everything I would let him know just what I feel. He resent the fact that to support his family he must endure his boss “talking down” at him “from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard or hearing”.

Although the main characters in both works are transformed as punishment for challenging their boss or ruler, Ovid’s depiction ends after Arachne becomes the spider. Arachne’s “hair, touched by the noxious drug, fell off and together with it her nose and ears”and, “Her slender fingers cleave to her sides as legs”. All that is known of her future is that “she works at her web as she did before,” continuing to weave in her transformed state. There is only a description of the act of metamorphosis with no explanation of the life she leads as spider or if change impacts character in a meaningful way. Kafa, on the other hand, illustrates in great detail the reality of Gregor’s life as a vermin.

The reader learns of Gregor’s struggles with and discovery of his new body ‘as he pushes “himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae, of which he was now beginning to learn the value, in order to see what had been happening there”. Kafa not only describes Gregor’s matter of fact reaction to his metamorphosis,but he also describes how this change impacts Gregor’s family. The diligent care of Gregor’s sister Grete turns to apathy and finally tp hate this altered life affects her. “We can’t all works as hard as we have to and then come home to be tortured like this, we can’t endure it. I can’t endure it any more” she finally confesses to her parent.

Kafa’s The Metamorphosis meets the criteria of magical realism because he draws on transforms Ovid’s “The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider”. He is inspired by Ovid’s use of a putative transformation, but Kafa moves his work beyond that act to realistically depict the life and struggles of living with this magical metamorphosis. It is this pragmatic, rational depiction of the irrational that makes it a classic example of magical realism.

Before Gregor was a creepy crawly he was human. In any case, since he is a human changed into a creepy crawly he is two unique things. At the point when he was a human he adored drain and bread yet now as a bug ‘he didn’t care for the milk either, despite the fact that milk had been his most loved drink'(Kafka,7). When he attempted his preferred beverage and dinner again he didn’t care for it any longer. This complexities the human self of him and what he used to like and what he doesn’t any longer since he is changing and his creepy crawly body is extraordinary.

The crisp nourishment is the thing that speaks to him as a human in light of the fact that as a bug he doesn’t care for the things his human self did. The crisp nourishment likewise is something that doesn’t regard him. After he had the milk he ‘was nearly with aversion the he got some distance from the basin'(8) Him dismissing the nourishment he used to adore is demonstrating that him as a creepy crawly is dismissing the human side of him. This additionally mirrors the title the Metamorphosis in light of the fact that a transformation is a change and Gregor is transforming from a human to a bug.

While Gregor is a creepy crawly he in changing from a human and more into a bug. The bug in him enjoys spoiled nourishment. When Grete was bringing him nourishment the cheddar ‘which over the various edibles pulled in him without a moment’s delay and strongly'(9). Gregor just likes spoiled nourishment in light of the fact that the creepy crawly side of him prefers spoiled nourishment. The spoiled nourishment is the thing that makes him feel better since when he is a bug the crisp nourishment or the human side of him isn’t beneficial for him any longer. The creepy crawly side of his changing more into a bug in light of the fact that while he is changing or transforming he is turning into a bug. The spoiled nourishment is likewise something that gives him bliss in his life in his room. He isn’t feeling himself until he attempts the rooten nourishment and ‘with tears of fulfillment in his eyes he immediately ate up the cheese'(9).

Gregor is so cheerful once he gets the chance to attempt nourishment that he really enjoys he gets tears of happiness on the grounds that from his change he hadn’t had whatever felt great until that minute. This shows he has been not tolerating that he was a creepy crawly however when he attempted the nourishment and got tears he understood he had gotten to a greater degree a bug that a bug.

Isolation Theme

When Gregor started acting “insect like” his family isolated him from not only them but society. This happens in the second chapter when Gregor started showing his inner, “monstrous vermin.” Since he started acting like that his isolation got worse. Throughout the story his isolation gets worse. While Gregor is in his room the family begins to take away his things and making him less human even in his room. His sister would feed him. His room was dark, dusty, and packed with unwanted things. One of the unwanted things in his room was Gregor. Gregor prefers to eat trash and leftovers. Grete starts to notice that her brother isn’t eating any of the food she brings him. Gregor eventually wants to leave his room but when he does his mom faints and his dad throws an apple at him. Gregor is shoved back into his room where he feels guilt lingering in the air. The isolation pushes Gregor as a person making him keep feeling very guilty over everything he has done wrong in the past.

Guilt Theme

The guilt theme is shown through the “monstrous vermin.” Gregor holds this theme within the novela. While he believes he has turned into a cockroach when in reality he is still himself, he just is acting super strange all relaying back to the guilt he has built up inside of him. This is due to the fact before he has had thoughts about his sister that are frowned upon. He also has a pornagraphic photo which he can’t leave which reveals that he doesn’t have high respect for women in general and he knows that he shouldn’t have the picture also making him feel guilty. This is shown through how he acts and feels around his family. It is also shown through how his family reacts and sees him. Towards the end of chapter one he starts to embrace his monstrous side, which is different from the beginning of the chapter where Kafka makes him seem very relatable in how he feels. By Gregor letting go of things in his past, he starts letting the guilt he has built up take over him. Towards the end of the novela Gregor dies, in a way his family knew wouldn’t accept, so he decided to give up and let go through dying. He died heartbroken and peacefully.

Power Theme

Gregors father is always trying to regain all the power he had lost to Gregor. He feels that by wearing his old uniform, like the one Gregor wore in the picture from the war that he would feel powerful in his house. Gregor starts to act very different after his father bans him to his room because he can’t stand the sight of his sons problems. His fathers power becomes unruly power that can’t be tamed but his power needs to be taken away from him because to much power is dangerous. To build up his power Gregors dad gets a job so he can start help provide for the family again. Both father and son hold guilt within because they are afraid to face their feelings and the truth. When Gregor tries to leave his room father throughs, “apples” at him which in relate to the “garden of eden” as a reference because it represents that he is passing his son.

Vampirism Theme

Vampirism is shown through Grete who drains Gregor of his humanity throughout the whole novela. At the beginning of the novela Grete is seen playing the violin while her father and brother had their issues. Although, throughout the novela we learn that she is actually the one who has all the power in the family. She brought food to her brother even though she knows that he isn’t eating any of the food. Instead of saying anything to her parents she kept quiet and become lonely. She didn’t try to help her brother at all she lets suffer. The only thing she did for him was let him get worse and worse. If she knew how her brother thought of her it would explain why she left him to feel isolated and alone. She is also the one who suggested that the family isolate Gregor when he started being weird. That showed that Grete is the one who let her brother die in his own guilt so she could feel better.

Humanity Theme

Gregor lost his humanity before the novela even began and this is represented by his first statement of being a “monstrous vermin.” Gregor progresses throughout the novela guilty and power struggles that he has with his family causes him to totally lose all of his humanity. His mother and sister dehumanized his room by taking out all of his belongings and starting to put all the trash and unwanted items such as him. Milk used to be Gregors favorite drink but when he thinks he became a monstrous vermin he is suddenly repelled by the milk. He is no longer a good and clean person. When Gregor gives into being alone and realizes how horrible his life has become when he dies, after he lets go of his guilt he gains a bit of his humanity back and has a bit of feelings. If he was a “monstrous vermin” he wouldn’t feel anything when he passed but when Gregor dies he feels heartbroken but peaceful.