A Literary Analysis Of The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

Paper 1: Literary Analysis
The Metamorphosis
By sketching the disability that the protagonist of "The Metamorphosis" has the author transfers a message that being a human does not mean having a body, head, hands, and legs; also it does not mean to have a brain which distinguishes us from the other creatures and makes us an intelligent animal. Actually, "Franz Kafka" shows that emotions, feeling and humanitarian treatments is the key of the human differentiation to be recognized than the other creatures, and without these specifications human becomes as an animal or a bug.
Kafks uses the meaning of “insect” as become nothing or a pipsqueak to illustrate his view to the diseases and patients, besides to the patients’ relations with the closest people to them. Indeed, he starts his
story directly with the scene which shows
Gregor Samsa as a disable “When Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed one morning from unquiet dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous insect”. He used to work hardly without any objection or interception as a traveler salesman in order to support his family and baying his parent’s depts. Furthermore, Gregor - who sacrificed his life for his family which consists of his father, mother and sister – does get nothing back; his family change their lives to fit the reality that he cannot give or scarify anymore, and while they were deal with him in mercy at the begging of his disability, they become accustomed to his situation until they let him weeks without even one visit to him.
The family members who used to depend on Gregor to survive changed to the degree that they forget him as if he is jailed in his room; their fear and mercy looks and emotions become ignoring action towards him. In addition, this change illustrates how life is tough so the closest people will change toward the person who gave his life to them whenever they are not getting any benefit from him.
The author keep focusing on Gregor’s family change after his transformation into useless creature “In the first two weeks his parents could not bring themselves to come in to see him…” and his family keep neglecting him until he starts to feel that this family not his anymore “Gregor was a member of the family who should not treated as an enemy…”. Actually, even his sister tried to show some sympathies with him but at the end she as the rest of the family let him lives his loneliness alone until he die alone suffering of his body and spirit diseases.
The fact that the story focuses on is that many people have short memories and even any of us sacrificed our live for them they will forget that soon. At that point, humans becomes as animals or bugs without any feeling or emotion the only thing
they are looking for is the benefit that they can get from the other, and whenever anyone of them for any reason can’t provide the rest what they used to get, he/she will be treated in very negative way. They will deal with that person as a bug until push him/her to dream of death or commit suicide.
Unfortunately this is the live everyone wants to live his life, and without love, mercy, charity and tenderness we will look as if we are in a forest.