Metamorphosis Relationship Essay
Imagine, the day before you go to bed, everything is normal. But the next, you wake up as a giant bug! Everything changes; you can no longer work, no longer get around like you used to, and your family goes from accepting you as family, to seeing you as vermin. This is what happened to Gregor Samsa, the main character, in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Things gradually take a change, especially the relationships between Gregor and each of his family members. Each relationship takes a “metamorphosis”. Grete, Gregor’s sister, is one of the relationships amongst his family that changes throughout the story. In Part II, Grete sympathizes for her brother and brings him food. In the book, it says there was “a dish filled with sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it.” (Kafka 19). Grete obviously still cares
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In the beginning, just like Grete, she is worried about him. The mother does eventually begin to help in her own way by helping move furniture to make more room for him. In Part II, Grete and her mother “pushed [the old chest] from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother’s warnings that she would strain herself.” (Kafka 26). Gregor’s mother wants to help her son in any way that she can, but as long as it requires her to not see him in his repugnant form. In the end, she still has a care for her son, but has a feeling of existentialism now that she is completely free of the presence of the bug form of Gregor. A summary of how she feels for her son is this quote: “Mrs. Samsa made a movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not complete it.” (Kafka 42). She clearly does not want her deceased son’s body to be disturbed, but also at the same time begins to realize that that burden has been lifted. A mother will always care about her children, but may not always show it as they
In the beginning, just like Grete, she is worried about him. The mother does eventually begin to help in her own way by helping move furniture to make more room for him. In Part II, Grete and her mother “pushed [the old chest] from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother’s warnings that she would strain herself.” (Kafka 26). Gregor’s mother wants to help her son in any way that she can, but as long as it requires her to not see him in his repugnant form. In the end, she still has a care for her son, but has a feeling of existentialism now that she is completely free of the presence of the bug form of Gregor. A summary of how she feels for her son is this quote: “Mrs. Samsa made a movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not complete it.” (Kafka 42). She clearly does not want her deceased son’s body to be disturbed, but also at the same time begins to realize that that burden has been lifted. A mother will always care about her children, but may not always show it as they