Gregor's Metamorphosis

Mary Bell was only 11 years old when she committed her crimes. She was born on May 26, 1957 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She had very distinctive, beautiful blue eyes that she was known to have. She had a nickname, The Tyneside strangler.

The astonishing work of fiction, “Sweat”, by Zora Neale Hurston, captures the ultimate importance of people receiving what they truly deserve. The storyline of Hurston’s “Sweat” encompasses karma as the theme in numerous, yet diverse ways. Hurston uses the snake to bring about karma in “Sweat”. She depicts the negative connections to snakes such as fear, evil, immorality, night and slyness. While also linking the snake to positive symbols, such as rejuvenation and independence. This theme only became overt in the story through the lens of the protagonist, Delia, an African American launderer who is married to Sykes. He constantly taunts her about her phobia of snakes and attempts to kill her, but instead is killed

The story is very sad and realistic, some of the things that are related in Kafka's story can be found in modern families today. Gregor was a man who sacrifices himself working to pay his father's debts, instead off on his own where he could prospered. Gregor never was recognized by his family of all the efforts that he did, he was taken for granted and he was

While Gregor has gone through a more physically based metamorphosis, his change to a bug is simply physical and has no effect on his emotional wellbeing. Near the end of the first sentence in the book, ' […] he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. ' It is shown that he has been turned into a bug, plain and simple. What is shown later on in the book further proves the point that his change is only physical. An example is this, 'He remembered his family with deep feeling and love.' Gregor's family is clearly very important to him and he has a lot of emotion towards them, primarily love. Emotions like love are not associated with bugs, rather feelings of disgust and hate are most commonly associated with them.

In Franz Kafka’s book, The Metamorphosis, the main character, Gregor, loses his ability to communicate with those around him. Without his ability to communicate, Gregor loses control of his life and his untamable future. The reader first sees this when the family is trying to get Gregor to open his door. The family doesn’t seem to understand Gregor when they try to address him about why he missed his train. Gregor is trying to answer them, but they seem worried still, “He made an effort with the most careful articulation and by inserting long pauses between the individual words to remove everything remarkable from his voice. His father turned back to his breakfast. However, the sister whispered, ‘Gregor, open the door, I beg you.’” (8). It

A metamorphosis “a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means” (Dictionary). The protagonist, Gregor, goes through the most significant change throughout his whole family; Gregor somehow transforms over night into a giant cockroach. Gregor was the supplier of money to his family, he paid all the bills and was working truly to only pay off his parents debts; after finding a good job as a traveling salesman, he was able to help his family with a steady income and support. "They had simply got used to it, both the family and Gregor; the money was gratefully accepted and gladly given, but there was no special uprush of warm feeling" (95). Gregor was making great money

​Once Gregor transforms into a bug, his family, horrified by his appearance, lock him away to his room isolated from everyone and everything. The psychological distance put between him and his family is one of the consequences Gregor suffered

Eventually, by the end of the story, Gregor transforms into a useless being, the epitome of utilitarianism. Not only did his transformation into a bug change him physically, emotionally Gregor changed also. From having hidden feelings towards the family, to recognizing the true feelings he had, Gregor changes dramatically (Hibberd. To the family, he becomes a nuisance and is considered a burden. He craves compassion from them but they "lacked the lively character of former times" (175). Gregor reflects and realizes that he must disappear due to the burden of his bug state to his family (Goldfarb). "He thought of his family with tenderness and love. The decision that he must disappear was one that he held to even more strongly than his sister, if that were possible" (186). Out of love, Gregor makes the decision to leave/die for the sake of his family. At the beginning in his human state, he never embraced the feelings he had nor shared them. As a bug, Gregor accepted his feelings and was unable to share them, even though he desired to (Klingenstein). As Gregor has transformed from utilitarian to humanistic, so has the family transformed from humanistic and compassionate to utilitarian.

In this story, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, a salesman named Gregor Samsa transforms into a giant bug one morning. This change makes it impossible for him to go work. George hates his job but keeps it because of his obligation he feels to pay off his father’s debt and care for his family. He turns into a large bug, spends the rest of his life in that state, and is kept isolated in his room by his family. The transformation of Gregor leads to the change of his mother, father, and sister.

It is quite intriguing to learn the concept of transmutation of an animal, but it is well unheard of an actual person to have been mutated. Once finishing reading the short story “Metamorphosis" written by Franz Kafka the reader is able to conclude that the title pertains not only to Gregor’s mutation, but also to the whole story. Metamorphosis is a transformation of a human being or insect into ultimately an unrelated creature. It seems to resemble that process at the beginning by the way Gregor worked for his family while they got used to living comfortably letting him work for them. Though when Gregor’s transformation happened the family collapsed over financial problems and there mutated loved one.

Gregor was enlisted for a war, probably WWI. as his picture hung on the wall in the hall, his family grew distant from him. He was no longer a human to them, he was but a bug. A nobody as we call those people today. Kafka

The novella about Gregor and his metamorphosis is story of intolerance, and isolation. This novella by Kafka, taken literally is a very interesting story that is fun for anyone over the age of twelve to read. When looked at metaphorically, this story can be compared to Jews living in Germany. In the following essay, I hope to explain the story of Gregor, and what it could potentially mean.

Gregor's life as an insect, or vermin, as he described himself, is a metaphor for feelings of alienation and isolation that existed long before his transformation. Gregor’s loss of humanity in the eyes of his family condemns Gregor into what he describes as an “imprisonment” that restricts him from any of the comforts and securities of human interaction.

However, these feelings are mostly suppressed until one day Gregor wakes up to find the rest of his life will be changed forever.   In Gregor’s previous life as a human, he never really contemplated his role in

Even though Gregor’s actions affect the story in a bad way for his family he does not have any control over what happened to him or what he can do about it. The struggles that Gregor's faces have never been faced by another human before, these are turning into another being and not being able to turn back, some of his struggles like having to get a job to take care of his family could be relatable to some of the readers. I enjoyed the story but I would not recommend it since the story was not exciting or changed me much in any