In his novel The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka describes his own life through the life of his protagonist Gregor Samsa. Careful study of Franz Kafka's life shows that Kafka's family, workplace, and reaction to the adversity in his family and workplace are just like those of Gregor. So we might ask why Gregor was transformed into a bug since Kafka obviously never turned into a bug. The absurd image illustrates how Gregor lacks self-respect and feels like he's a bug in the eyes of his family and society. Franz Kafka was unhappy and never found his place in life, either. Therefore, he might have felt just like Gregor, like a bug. Furthermore the novel describes Kafka's expectations of his own future and he was partially correct.
The most obvious similarity between Kafka and Gregor is their
negative relationship to their fathers, which is a major theme in the novel and
in Kafka's life. The Kafka and Prague Website describes Kaka's father as "a
notorious tyrant, both to Franz Kafka and to his mother, Julie Löwy." Gregor
fears his father, which is evident in the fact that he keeps working as a
salesman, like his father wants him to, even though he hates that job (Kafka,
2000). Gregor refers to his father as "the father," which signifies that he
feels distant to his father. The father, in turn, acts like a tyrant when he
uses a stick to get Gregor back into his room (Kafka, 2008-9) and throws apples
at him (Kafka, 2019-20). The Kafka and Prague Website concludes that "Kafka's
father was the very opposite of Kafka himself" and that "Kafka's relationship
with his father comes out in some of his books as a hopeless conflict against an
overwhelming powe...
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...e a legacy now has a legacy as one of the most famous writer of the
previous century.
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audience the idea that Heaney constantly tries to be like his father, even though he is
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realizes that the controlled society he lives is one that tries to eliminate all individuality. This causes him to act out in violence against authority as a means o...
The Metamorphosis is said to be one of Franz Kafka's best works of literature. It shows the difficulties of living in a modern society and the struggle for acceptance of others when in a time of need. In this novel Kafka directly reflects upon many of the negative aspects of his personal life, both mentally and physically. The relationship between Gregor and his father is in many ways similar to Franz and his father Herrman. The Metamorphosis also shows resemblance to some of Kafka's diary entries that depict him imagining his own extinction by dozens of elaborated methods. This paper will look into the text to show how this is a story about the author's personal life portrayed through his dream-like fantasies.
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Matthews, G., Deary, I. J., & Whiteman, M. C. (2009). Personality traits. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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