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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

"Metamorphosis" By: Franz Kafka What is reality? Every person has
his or her own "reality" or truth of their existence. For some it may
be nothing they expected while others can just be successful in anything. The
true reality is that regardless of what direction is taken in life a person
brings the same inner self, motivational levels and attitudes. As followers of
literature we often escape our own "reality" and experience life
through the imagination of the author's we read. By doing so, many people find
themselves gaining information about themselves. In Franz Kafka's
"Metamorphosis," Gregor Samsa's reality changes indifferently in spite
of his drastic physical changes. Before the Metamorphosis, Gregors life
consisted of working and caring for his family. He led a life of a traveling
salesman, working long hours, which didn't permit to him living his own
"life". He reflects his own life as "the plague of traveling: the
anxieties of changing trains, the irregular, inferior meals, the ever changing
faces, never to be seen again, people with whom one has no chance to be
friendly" (Kafka 13). Working to pay off his family's debt, Gregor never
left anytime for himself. Kafka himself counterparts this sentiment in a quote
taken from his diaries; "no matter how hard you work that work still
doesn't entitle you to loving concern for people. Instead you're alone, a total
stranger, a mere object of curiosity" (Pawel 167). So in-depth with his
work, Gregor becomes unknown to himself and to life. In Gregor's life he had no
room for anyone other than his family which in the end left him without love or
caring or any other kind of companionship. He worked so industriously for his
family that this became his only goal in life. They became so dependent on
Gregor to support them but did nothing for him in return. Up until now Gregor
was living a life of obligations, he came home every night to an empty hotel
room to ensure his family was taken care of. His parents and "their
dominance thus extends to the system which deprives him of creative life and
married love" (Eggenschwiler 54). Apparent to everyone, Gregor was no
longer thought of a member of the family but nothing more than a "support
system." The fact of the matter become, "everyone had grown accustomed
to it, his family as much as himself; they took the money gratefully, he gave it
willingly but the act was accompanied by no remarkable effusiveness" (Kafka
48). Gregor still "believed he had to provide his family with a pleasant,
contented, secure life"(Emrich 149). Before the metamorphosis, Gregor's
existence was much like it was after it. After being transformed into a
cockroach Gregor lived in isolation with his family. In a "dark bedroom, in
the jumble of discarded furniture and filth, monstrous vermin, a grotesque,
hidden part of the family"(Eggenschwiler 211). Gregor's sister was the only
one who helped poor Gregor, in his time of transformation. She was frightened
but managed to put her fears aside, she even got angry with others for trying to
help. Upon his sister taking care of him, the rest of Gregor's family would not
associate with him. "No one attempted to understand him, no one, not even
his sister, imagined that she could understand him"(Kafka 45). Before long,
Gregor noticed that through his metamorphosi...

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