Analysis of The Metamorphosis
This story "The Metamorphosis" is about Gregor, a workaholic, who is changed into an insect and must then deal with his present reality. The hardest part of being an insect for him was the alienation from his family, which eventually leads to his death. In reading the short story "The Metamorphosis," (1971),one can realize how small the difference is between Magical Realism and Fantastic. This literature written by the Austrian, Franz Kafka, is often debated over.
The magical elements in this story are obvious like they should be in fantastic literature. It is not often that humans are turned into insects. Another magical element that is not as clear is the unconditional love that Gregor had for his parents and sister after they had long forgotten about him.
The realist elements in this story include about everything else. A characteristic of fantasy is that there is only one magical element in a realistic world. The reaction to the metamorphosis by Gregor's family is probably the most realistic. This includes the way they alienated him and the conditional live they had for him. Most people, like this family, love someone only when it
benefits themselves.
In this fantastic story, the author Franz Kafka uses the metamorphosis to depict how he sees society. Throughout the story, he makes one see society through Gregor's eyes. Kafka portrays society as being fickle and a close-minded one.
The purpose in this story, like all fantastic stories, is told at a deeper level. The purpose of "The Metamorphosis" is to show how people gradually change over time. Gregor, due to his situation with work and his family, was slowly changing into a monster and he did not even know it. People do cha...
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...haracter, Gregor, transforms into a cockroach in the beginning. Throughout the story, Gregor is portrayed as a “helpless bug” and is treated unfairly and poorly by his own family. His parents are more astonished than pitiful when they first see Gregor. Later on, his mother faints at the sight of him. His father throws apples at him because his mother fainted from the way he looks. Grete, in the beginning of the transformation, is nice and takes care of him. Later, she changes her mind about Gregor, quits taking care of him, and comes up with the idea to get rid of it. ‘If it was Gregor, he would have long ago seen that it’s impossible for human beings to live together with an animal like that,’ (139). Kafka, throughout the story, tries to get the reader to feel sympathy towards Gregor in many scenes, and it works because his family doesn’t show sympathy towards him.
From the beginning of The Metamorphosis Kafka offers a comical depiction of Gregor’s “squirming legs” (Kafka 13) and a body in which “he could not control” (7). Gregor’s initial reaction to this situation was the fact he was late to his dissatisfying job as a salesman, but Gregor knows that he has to continue his job in order to keep the expectation his family holds upon him to pay of the family’s everlasting debt. When Gregor’s family eventually realizes that Gregor is still lying in his bed, they are confused because they have expectations on Gregor that he will hold the family together by working. They know if Gregor was to quit his job there would be a great catastrophe since he is the glue to keeping their family out of debt. The communication between his family is quickly identified as meager and by talking to each other from the adjacent walls shows their disconnection with each other. Kafka introduces the family as lacking social skills in order to offer the reader to criticize and sympathize for Gregor’s family dynamics. Gregor’s manager makes an appearance quickly after experiencing the dysfunction within the fami...
The first significant event in the story is the obvious transmutation into a large insect. Gregor awoke in his room and laying in his bed however, he was not inhabiting his body "he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect" (Kafka 1880). Gregor is now an insect, a beetle of sorts. This is the first
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In the story, Gregor wakes up on a rainy day to go to work and when he tries to get up he notices he has been transformed into a bug. Although, the story isn’t about real world aspects and social views you can get a taste of peoples true colors and the real world from reading this story by the way that he wrote it. Kafka uses such an imaginative way for us to feel empathy towards Gregor, who would have thought you could feel empathy towards a cockroach? But you do, from the moment you start the story until the end you empathize with this bug.
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Kafka’s The Metamorphosis takes on an wide variety of main themes. One of the most important of these is the collapse of morality and mercy, even among those people who are expected to be most fair and compassionate. Gregor’s metamorphosis is indeed terrible, but more terrible still is the psychological corruption of Gregor’s family. Their inability to adapt to the changes that have occurred signal a total breakdown in the family structure, and offer a cautionary tale about the fragility of notions of justice and mercy and how a certain change can change a persons perception of them.
... in its own level with its own punishment. The first sin found in Dracula, Lust, is committed by John Harker. On level three is the sin of Gluttony, which in the novel is illustrated by Count Dracula, who also commits the next sin, Hoarding. The next sin, who Mina portrays is the Sullen. Her good friend, Lucy, is guilty of Heresy. Count Dracula is again guilty of another sin, Violence against himself, while, similarly, he is also guilty of Violence against others. Circle eight, for the Fraudulent, would contain the characters Lucy, for being a Flatterer, and John Harker, for Thievery. The final circle of hell, for those guilty of Treachery, is inhabited by Count Dracula for being a betrayer to his guests and benefactors. With each sin being found in Dracula, it seems like Bram Stoker’s novel was, in fact, written purposefully to include each sin from Dante’s Inferno.
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.
Placental abruption is a condition in which premature separation of the placenta from the uterus. Women with placental abruption, also called abruptio placentae, usually present with bleeding, uterine contractions, and fetal distress. Complications such as a risk for recurrence in women who have experienced placental abruptions previous in other pregnancies. Understanding the leading cause to contributing factor of placental abruption, is understanding the origin of the condition. Associations that are common during pregnancy which can lead to an abruption that is acknowledged as risk factors can be fetal growth, advancing maternal age, hypertension, previous abortions and folic acid deficiency. The high mortality rates from an abruption come
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Through his metamorphosis into a bug, Gregor was transforming into more of a human. The bug that Gregor transforms into is not a symbol of inhumanity. One would think the opposite, but he was gaining humanity as he became more of a bug. Bugs, insects, and harmless living things striving for nothing are the humanity. The real Gregor was dead as soon as he let his job consume him and sequester him from his family and the way they viewed him. Gregor wakes up to figure out who he really is, yet he can’t even identify himself. The true metamorphosis had been taking place for many years. Overall, Gregor’s transformation into a bug exemplifies the unpleasant life he was living, and his metamorphosis symbolizes a slow transformation towards his own humanity.
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