Anxiety In Gregor's Metamorphosis

Once I’ve got together the money to pay off the parent 's debt to him— that should take another five or six years—I’ll do it for sure. Then I’ll make the big break.”(pg.5) In other words, Gregor is working so much for his parents and the debt that he needs to pay off. As a result of that, Gregor is overworked, he never really goes out, and spends his time reading the newspaper or looking at the bus schedule. Kafka writes, “The young man has nothing in his head except business. I’m almost angry that he never goes out at night. Right now he’s been in the city eight days, but he’s been at home every evening. He sits there with us at the table and reads the newspaper quietly or studies his travel schedules.” (pg. 15) Gregor has lost his sense of humanity and spends his time thinking about business. He has also lost all sorts of creativity he had before he started working so much. He is pretty much used to a routine based lifestyle, which lacks creativity because he has a set schedule that he follows almost everyday. This resulted into his metamorphosis. His parents relied on him to work so much, they forgot that Gregor is human just like themselves. Gregor is human who needs basic human essentials. Like going out with his friends, relaxing, and learning to appreciate the things and people around him. He could not do so because he was stuck paying off debt with a job that he hated.

Gregor wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant bug, and it inhibits him from going to his salesman job. This is an immediate problem for his family, as Gregor provides the financial support in the household. Throughout the story, Gregor adjusts to his new body and gains insight into his family’s true view of him. Instead of accepting him, they slowly isolate him away in his room until he is completely neglected, and they only see him as a bug, no longer a human. Gregor loses his sense of humanity from his family’s treatment and feels trapped in his bedroom.

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Thirdly, he suffers isolation from the physical world, which he is no longer able to participate in due to his presence and lack of mobility. Lastly, he suffers isolation from other people around him, especially his family. By the end even his sister, Grete, the most compassionate member of the family, explanations that they should stop thoughtful of the creature as the person they knew. She says that “the fact that we’ve believed it so long is the root of our trouble” (Kafka 48), which can be taken to mean that at some point Gregor stopped being a person not only because of his entrance but since of his non-conformist actions. The beating he receives from his father shows the extent of the cruelty he endures, though his father knows that “family duty compulsory the conquest of disgust and the use of endurance, nothing but patience” (Kafka 36). The tragedy is that this alienation ends up killing Gregor, who “dies not as a vermin, but as a human being thinking of his family”. The transformation is an indication of the breakdown of Gregor’s psyche and alienation within his self. The reader is not told how the transformation

Ever since the metamorphosis, Gregor’s perception of himself begins to change as his family sees a bug more than their own son. Gregor does nothing but lock himself in his room.

When Gregor inexplicably becomes an insect his family is primarily worried about how this will affect them, and their financial security. The morning Gregor awakes as a ‘monstrous vermin' is the first day he has missed work in five years; his family's immediate concern is for Gregor's job. His father begins to admonish him before he can even drag himself out of bed. When Gregor hears his sister crying at his door he thinks, "Why was she crying?? Because he was in danger of losing his job and then his boss would dun their parents for his old claims?" This is very significant to their relationship; he considers himself close to his sister, but feels her emotion spent on him is related to money. Gregor has been the sole breadwinner for years; working at a job he abhors only to pay his fathers debts. The family leads an extremely comfortable life of leisure; the father sits at the kitchen table and reads all day, the sister wears the best clothes and amuses herself by playing the violin, and all even take a mid-day nap. Gregor is extremely pleased and proud to provide them with this lifestyle; however, his generosity is met with resentment by his father and indifference by his sister and mother. Once the family grew accustomed to this lifestyle they no longer felt the need to be grateful, "they had grown used to it, they accepted the money, but no particularly warm feelings were generated any longer." At one point Gregor is deeply

Gregor begins to become confuse after discovering that there happens to be a bit of humanity left in him. He tries to embrace his human emotions and becomes compatible with the new changes to his body. The human characteristics left in Gregor leaves the readers with his emotions and thoughts that his family does not know. He does not think about the negative aspects that happened to him. The thought of being able to support his family before this whole transformation situation makes him proud but he becomes unable to do that now. Human emotions shows their capability of feeling a certain way for certain situation alerting themselves that “Fear appeals are persuasive messages that attempt to arouse fear by emphasizing the potential danger and harm that will befall individuals if they do not adopt the messages”(Gervaise 45), which presents a fear in an individuality of a human that consumes them creating all routes of thoughts that lead either the right or wrong way. Though Meursault does not intentionally leave and enter another world, he runs into Marie Cardona at the public beach on his four day weekend. They spend the whole day and night together. After his mother’s death, he wants to stay away from as much questions as possible. Therefore, he clocks in till twelve a.m. then spends the remaining hour of his day near his balcony, smoking and eating while looking at the people walk by. After long contemplation, his thoughts revolves around the normalness of a typical Sunday, where his mother died, and everything seems the same. Showing absurdity towards society brings a not-so-good vibe, which questions the people that do not adapt towards the outside world “Could we possibly say that something was in a person’s interest even though it neither matched nor helped the attainment of any of his desires, then or later” (Moore 56)? According to all the

In this story, I fell that the writer does an excellent job of connecting the reader with Gregor. Right of the bat, the author almost forces the reader to identify with Gregor by showing the unfortunate details of his life. Throughout the story, the reader can’t help but sympathize with Gregor and will find themselves rooting for him. I’ve also found it interesting that by how the author has described Gregor as such a caring and considerate person, that he almost seems cute as a bug, like a family pet, but a giant, monstrous insect. This adds to the reader pitting Gregor for the reader understands that his family have both sympathy and revulsion toward him. Of the people in his family, his sister and mother most definitely find the most sympathy

I agree with your theory that Gregor has always been a bug! This story teaches us how people can forget the past so easily and move on. Gregor is the one who was taking care of his family and supported them financially but when he turned into something useless (cockroach) they started to feel they won’t need him anymore since he is not being able to support them and they are getting tired of taking care of him.

This relationship changes again to one of tolerance, only due to the fact that Gregor is a family member. Gregor’s metamorphosis now forces the family to slide back into what would be perceived by others as the normal, where the father is now working and Gregor is the dependant and not the provider. It appears that the father is now displaying this new constant role by refusing to take of his work uniform. With this said, Gregor is no longer useful to his family and becomes isolated. He does not complain, but just withdraws and becomes isolated from his

In order to do this he is forced to work long hours daily. However one night Gregor mysteriously transforms into a large bug while he is sleeping. As soon as Gregor’s Family discovers his new state they begin to exclude him from the Family. When Gregor transforms instead of his family being caring and understanding about

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Gregor’s transformation to a Vermin created a new life of separation and isolation for him. Before Gregor’s transformation he already felt isolated and stressed out because he was the only one working and he didn’t have that good of a relationship within his family. Kafka states “Constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate.” Gregor is a traveling salesman who sees new people

I agree with both Locke and Hobbes. I feel that Hobbes is correct in the fact that we are greedy and selfish but only to a certain extent, as humans we can also be naturally good and cooperative which agrees with Locke’s theory. We are naturally greedy and selfish because we are run by the instinct to have the highest rate of survival for ourselves, not to aid others survive. It is human nature to meet your own personal needs and the needs of the people who have the closest relationships to you first. Yet we are also naturally intelligent and cooperative species.

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