Central Character In The Metamorphosis And Notes From Underground

It is normal in today’s world to feel as an outcast or unwelcome at times. It is a very unfortunate and saddening feeling to feel as such. An outcast is, “a person who has been rejected by society or a social group .” Fortunately, we have writers and authors who are able to focus and elaborate on this feeling of being an outcast, and give us a result of what can happen if someone faces the fears of being an outcast from society for a length of time. Both, Doveskey and Kafka focus on the idea of their central character being an outcast and exiled from society. In both the works of “Notes from Underground” and The Metamorphosis, the central characters find themselves as an outcast from society. In “Notes from Underground” the cause of being an outcast is a direct result of the central character. While it is opposite in The Metamorphosis; the cause of being an outcast is not a result of the central character. Ultimately, the cause for being an outcast is not always the
While both of the text are extremely different in relation to one another, they address the same issues and difficulties that come with being exiled and left out. In “Notes from Underground,” the central character chose to be an outcast to those around him and tried very vaguely to eliminate the rejections. In The Metamorphosis, the central character did not choose to be an outcast to his family. He only wished to be able to communicate with them and tell them how he felt. Ultimately, the same result occurred for both of these central characters, disappointment. The Underground Man never found a companion or a genuine relationship and in The Metamorphosis, Gregor died. At the end of the day, the cause for being an outcast, rejected, and exiled is not always the primary fault of the central character, as we are able to see in both of these works of