![]() ![]() ![]() He gradually starts to lose his eye sight as he notices that he can not even see across the road to the hospital. In The Metamorphosis there are many signs of slow deterioration for Gregor. These writings contained detailed descriptions of his own death that were very disturbing and grotesque. The writings obtained from his diary were never intended to be seen by the public. It may be that all the physical and emotional abuse Kafka suffered, in some way inspired him to write about his own extinction. "The image of a wide pork butcher’s knife, swiftly and with mechanical regularity chopping into me, shaving off razor-thin slices which fly about due to the speed of the work." This is one example of the many painful means of death that Kafka imagines and writes about in his diary. These feelings could have been the same feelings of seclusion that Kafka felt in his own life after abuse from his father. He could tell that his sister did not care as much as she did when he first became a bug. The feelings of seclusion and not being wanted entered Gregor’s thoughts. The apple began to rot away and he felt weaker and experienced more pain than usual. From this point on the physical and mental condition of Gregor steadily decreased. Samsa threw an apple at him and it lodged in his back. Another event in which Gregor encountered violence from his father was when Mr. ![]() ![]() When he chased Gregor back to his room, he kicked him in the back as he reached the door. Samsa displayed a violent temper from the very first encounter with the transformed Gregor. Whenever Kafka disagreed with his father or told his father that he wanted to be a writer, not a shop owner, his father got very upset. When Franz Kafka was a boy his father abused him. He thought it would be very difficult for his family to be financially secure without him working. Gregor felt as if he had let down the family because he had provided for them up until this point where he could no longer work. His father was retired and his sister was still young and not working. When Samsa sees what has happened to Gregor he is immediately outraged, either out of confusion or disappointment towards his son. Kafka was subjected to abuse and constant yelling from his father because he was a failure in his eyes. Just this passage here shows how alike Mr. Gregor’s father chased after him with a cane and newspaper making a hissing noise that annoyed Gregor. He "came on, hissing like a wild man" when Gregor first exited his room in his new state as a bug. Franz Kafka died on Jfrom tuberculosis of the larynx.įrom the moment we meet Gregor Samsa’s father we are shown how short tempered he is. This obsession with wanting Franz to become a businessman led Herrman to beat his son. Kafka’s father viewed Franz as a failure and disapproved of his writing because he wanted Franz to become a business man like him. He lived his life in the shadow of his dominating father under constant pressure to take over the family business. Born in 1883, he was the eldest child and the only son. He spoke German and was neither a Czech nor German due to his Jewish upbringing. 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.įranz Kafka grew up in a financially secure Jewish family in Prague. The Metamorphosis also shows resemblance to some of Kafka’s diary entries that depict him imagining his own extinction by dozens of elaborated methods. The relationship between Gregor and his father is in many ways similar to Franz and his father Herrman. In this novel Kafka directly reflects upon many of the negative aspects of his personal life, both mentally and physically. It shows the difficulties of living in a modern society and the struggle for acceptance of others when in a time of need. The Metamorphosis is said to be one of Franz Kafka’s best works of literature. ![]()
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