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THE METAMORPHOSIS

Franz Kafka

When Gregor awakes in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, he finds himself turn into a gigantic insect. He considered that it is a dream which reflects on the dreary life of a traveling salesman. Then he figure out that is true, he has turned into an insect. He knows it is a disaster both to him and his family. He cannot go to work or do anything with such a body. This story is talking about Gregor and his family’s change after he becomes an insect. What I want to analysis next is the change of his family’s attitude by his appearance.

First, when Gregor hind out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation. “In any case, right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o’clock.” (5)Gregor still want to go work, he do not want to be late. It shows his hard working. In his family, he works as a traveling salesman in order to provide money for his sister and parents. His parents do not have work and his sister still a student. “Gregor wanted to answer in detail and explain everything, but in these circumstances he confined himself to saying, ‘Yes, yes, thank you mother. I’m getting up right away.’”?(7) It shows his fealty. As a son, he does not want his family know what has changed of his appearance. It will be a great shock for his family. Due to his family’s situation, he used to be the most important one in the family. He earns the money for family and pay for all the debt for his parents.

However, it cannot be hidden forever. When the manager came to his house in order to figure out the reason he do not go to work, they finally find that Gregor has become an insect. “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’ She held her head bowed down, as if she wanted to view Gregor better…When she reached the table, she sat down heavily on it, as if absent-mindedly, and did not appear to notice at all that next to her coffee was pouring out onto the carpet in a full stream from the large overturned container.”(27-28). This is what his mother’s behave when Gregor rush out of his room. “The manager was already on the staircase. His chin level with the banister, the manager looked back for the last time…the manager must have suspected something, because he made a leap down over a few stairs and disappeared, still shouting ‘Huh!’ The sound echoed throughout the entire stairwell.” He will lose his job certainly, but how about the next part that how his families deal with this trouble.

In the second part, after they calm down, they start look after Gregor. His families begin working once again because they lose the only source of income. “By the door he first noticed what had really lured him there: it was the smell of something to eat. For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread.”“Thus, he had a long time to think undisturbed about how he should reorganize his life from scratch.” At this time, Gregor still have hope for the future, and his parents and sister sympathize with his sufferings. Gregor’s mother, as a mother, she wants to enter his room. It proves too much for her, she suffers from the sympathy and her fear at Gregor's new appearance. At this time, although Gregor become the excess baggage of his family, they still look after him and wish it will pass by someday.

Unfortunately, as time goes by, Gregor’s situation becomes worse. His family cannot understand him anymore. At first Greta volunteers to feed him and clean his room. However, she is tired of look after such an insect even if it is her brother, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(85). “you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…”(86) so finally, Gregor has been locked in his little room until he dead. “‘What now?’ Gregor asked himself and looked around him in the darkness.”(88) Gregor feels so hopeless by his experience. He used to be the only source of income of his family. But now, his families want to get rid of him.

Finally, Gregor dies a charwoman deal with his corpse. And now the family is getting well, husband and the wife find their daughter become “a beautiful and voluptuous young woman.”(96) This story is ending by Gregor’s dead, his family get well expect him.

As a conclusion, what I analysis is the change of his family’s attitude which is worked by his appearance. First, when Gregor find out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation. He is the only source of income of his family and he is such a fealty son. But his change in appearance shocks his family. When they calm down, they start look after Gregor with sympathize. However, their patience fade away as time goes on. Finally, they want to get rid of Gregor. The story has ending by Gregor’s death. 

analysis paper outline

THE METAMORPHOSIS

Franz Kafka

Outline

Topic: the change of his family’s attitude is worked by his appearance.

Example 1: When Gregor find out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation.

          “In any case, right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o’clock.” Gregor still want to go work, he do not want to be late. It shows his hard working.

          “Gregor wanted to answer in detail and explain everything, but in these circumstances he confined himself to saying, ‘Yes, yes, thank you mother. I’m getting up right away.’” It shows his fealty.

          Due to his family’s situation, he used to be the most important one in the family. He earns the money for family and pay for all the debt for his parents.

Example 2: His families look after him and care him as their relative.

          “By the door he first noticed what had really lured him there: it was the smell of something to eat. For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread.”

“Thus, he had a long time to think undisturbed about how he should reorganize his life from scratch.”

At this time, Gregor still have hope for the future, and his parents and sister sympathize with his sufferings.

Example 3: His change brings disaster to his family. Their torment is too much for Gregor’s sister to bear, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(124). Later she continues,” you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…(125)

          Gregor dies, and a charwoman disposes of the corpse. Now the family is rejuvenated and the husband and wife suddenly notice “their daughter’s increasing vivacity”(132) she has bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure.

Conclusion: His change brings disaster to his family. His family’s attitude has changed with the time goes by. Finally, the story end by his dead.

analysis paper step1-3

The Metamorphosis

Determine element: Gregor’s appearance

Literary review:

 The writing background is that from 1914 to 1918, the First World War, many capitalist countries economic recession, social unrest, the people live in hot water. The darkness of the reality, the pain of life, make people lose faith in capitalism society, on the one hand, to seek a way out, reform, on the one hand and in loneliness, decadent, despair. The end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, some artists think the world is chaos, with a clear mind their writing, criticizing capitalism relationships and criticism by human social system. Before and after the First World War and before and after the Second World War, modernist literature came into being. Modernist literary works reflect the capitalist society of the dark, cold relations between person and person, to the despair of the society. Art emphasizes on using extreme exaggeration that the performance of the quirky, depicting the distortion of human nature, the instinct of a man and unconscious subjective feeling, dig the individual intuition, instinct, unconscious, dream, abnormal psychology and half crazy, crazy behavior, and psychology. Modernism of outstanding literary works explores the human mind, to reveal the inner world provides a new artistic technique.

   Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is a twentieth-century classic that invites various interpretations, but all commentators agree that it is a story about estrangement and alienation. That thesis, however, does not account for me baffling ending of the story.

“Metamorphosis” is the tale of Gregor, a traveling salesman who finds his work loathsome and meaningless. He awakes one morning and finds he has turned into a “gigantic insect”. His change brings disaster to his family. Their torment is too much for Gregor’s sister to bear, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(124). Later she continues,” you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…(125)

This point is, however, that the creature is Gregor, and the implication of the denial is that only when the family refuse to recognize the true nature of Gregor (the loathsome aspect of wasted living) can life remain tolerable.

Gregor dies, and a charwoman disposes of the corpse. Now the family is rejuvenated and the husband and wife suddenly notice “their daughter’s increasing vivacity”(132) she has bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure

Why has this metamorphosis in the daughter taken place? The story sadly implies that only false illusion can become a saving ideal, only under its grip can life blossom.

There is quite evidently a spiritual progress from human-insect mongrel to purebred insect as the story unfolds. If i am correct, there is also an altogether more dramatic physical progress than has hitherto been noted. The human, encrusted with the coleopterous, and gradually absorbed by it.-TOM HARTMAN, Sweet briar collage

Gregor’s transformation completely alters his outward appearance, but it leaves his mind unchanged, creating a discord, or lack of harmony, between his mind and body. When he first gets out of his bed after waking, for instance, he tries to stand upright, even though his body is not suited to being upright. He also thinks of going to work, despite the fact that he can’t by any means do so, and when Grete leaves him the milk at the beginning of Part 2, he is surprised to find he doesn’t like it, even though milk was a favorite drink when he was human. In essence, he continues to think with a human mind, but because his body is no longer human, he is unable at first to reconcile these two parts of him.- by MJINDRA5, July 15, 2012

   

Works Cited

Hill, Stanley. "Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS." Explicator 61.3 (2003): 161-162. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 May 2015.

Hartman, Tom. "Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS." Explicator 43.2 (1985): 32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 May 2015.

 Kafka, Franz. "Metamorphosis". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 15 April 2014.

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