The Metamorphosis Gregory

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” ― Franz Kafka. The story “The metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is a short story that contains a far deeper meaning about society, internal conflict, and human behavior. To begin with, metamorphosis is about a young man named Gregor Samsa that leads an average life but took a drastic turn one morning when he man discovers he has shifted to a beetle. Throughout the novel, Gregory's and his family struggle for months financially and emotionally due to his shift. Sadly, Gregory's shift has taken a toll on his overall health so he passes away. In the end, the family uses the compensation money they received from his death
To begin with, ideology is a system of ideas and ideals, belonging to a group of people. Within this story, the author Franz Kafka expresses ideologies about society, politics, individual and more. Furthermore, Kafka uses a simple story about a man that turns into a beetle and his family's struggle and unconsciously relates it to several ideologies. The themes in the literature consciously remind the reader of the deeper social commentary in the story. Moreover, the conflicts that occur in the story such as the issues the Family has with the protagonist Gregor Samsa and the internal conflict Gregory had with his job. This relates to the issues and conflicts that ideologies have. For instance, every ideology has an ideology that disagrees thus having two opposing ideologies. An example of this in modern society includes liberal vs. conservative, and capital vs. socialist. Overall, the metamorphosis has a figurative plot which makes a deeper meaning of