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Marie
I'll try to answer too, because Franz is also from Czech where he lived but wrote his pieces in German.
Franz was a very depressed individual and his childhood was hard, somehow it shows how he really felt in this book. His father had very high expectations from him and beat him a lot if he did a little mistake both physically and mentally. But it didn't mirror his life fully, he did it to break free from the world he lived but always put pieces of himself into the books. You can actually see how he felt smaller and smaller only by looking at the names of the characters. In this book he named the character as "Gregor Samsa", in the Trial his character is only named as "Josef K." and in The Castle the character is only a "K.".
Franz also destroyed a lot of his work already and publishers knew that the work would never be as Franz meant it to be and you can only guess what he meant by the words he wrote.
He was also very shy and he wanted to run away every time someone got close to him. He craved attention and romance, but he couldn't do it because his confidence was destroyed and everytime he ran. But sometimes he couldn't, like the big bug couldn't open the door and leave, he was trapped with the family he knew he disappointed.
Franz was a very depressed individual and his childhood was hard, somehow it shows how he really felt in this book. His father had very high expectations from him and beat him a lot if he did a little mistake both physically and mentally. But it didn't mirror his life fully, he did it to break free from the world he lived but always put pieces of himself into the books. You can actually see how he felt smaller and smaller only by looking at the names of the characters. In this book he named the character as "Gregor Samsa", in the Trial his character is only named as "Josef K." and in The Castle the character is only a "K.".
Franz also destroyed a lot of his work already and publishers knew that the work would never be as Franz meant it to be and you can only guess what he meant by the words he wrote.
He was also very shy and he wanted to run away every time someone got close to him. He craved attention and romance, but he couldn't do it because his confidence was destroyed and everytime he ran. But sometimes he couldn't, like the big bug couldn't open the door and leave, he was trapped with the family he knew he disappointed.
Agustin
The Metamorphosis is a pseudo-autobiography. The protagonist, Gegore Samsa, is based on Kafka himself. You can actually see that Kafka and Samsa sound similar. Kafka's father always treated him as if he were trash (just like Gregore's father) to the point of making Franz feel like, surprise, a bug.
Entre Líneas
At college, when you read Kafka's stories profesors show you the meaning of this book. I don't really know if it's just a theory or something accepted by all the entire society, but it's kinda like that: We thought that Gregor was alienated by the capitalist system he lived in because he spent his entire time working to pay his fathger's debt and, when he has free time he only do things that didn't satisfy him at all. Whit this, Kafka tried to show us the capitalist society of that time and how lived the people who were part of it and that only work and work and work to just pay the rent, debts and common things like that. We could see that when Gregor become an insect and can't work anymore he becomes useless for the capitalist society and for his family too because he can't earn money to help them. For this reason, Gregor begins to be forgotten by his family until he dies.
When we see the relationship of Gregor with is father we can easily relate it to the one Kafka has with his own father. The real one (Kafka and his father), were loaded with negative feelings, from father to son and visceversa, that are completely captured in the fictional relationship.
The metamorphosis is a work of art charged with a huge social and family criticism.
Hope you enjoyed reading it! I really loved it.
When we see the relationship of Gregor with is father we can easily relate it to the one Kafka has with his own father. The real one (Kafka and his father), were loaded with negative feelings, from father to son and visceversa, that are completely captured in the fictional relationship.
The metamorphosis is a work of art charged with a huge social and family criticism.
Hope you enjoyed reading it! I really loved it.
Amreen
i dont know much about any official theory but in my view (hope you will consider reading it:))through metamorphosis i.e by becoming a bug gregor is relieved from the cycle of routine and goals of his human life.This is the only time that he gets to look at his life from outside cause he is no more in it.
on the other hand the human nature of moving on and living our lives ,like his family does ,they abandon him after worrying for a while and began to focus on their own lives.
Metamorphosis didn't just happen to gregor but whole family ,note how her parents note in the end that their daughter after all the troubles has turned into young adult woman.
on the other hand the human nature of moving on and living our lives ,like his family does ,they abandon him after worrying for a while and began to focus on their own lives.
Metamorphosis didn't just happen to gregor but whole family ,note how her parents note in the end that their daughter after all the troubles has turned into young adult woman.
Oliver Kann
It seems that he himself never explained its meaning. Many of us (or the Wiki at last) would have known if he did.
But I guess the meaning of this particular work of Kafka in not that mysterious. Kafka examines human nature with its vices and inclinations. In real life he sees that a man can be inhuman, narrow-minded, cold-blooded, complacent, unfair, illogical and so on (like all those people surrounding Gregor) and demonstrates this in his texts.
I believe that the very idea of a bug-man is quite simple in general. Let us say a writer is concerned about injustice and cruelty of man and world, so nothing extraordinary in the fact that one day the idea comes to his mind to transform a good man into a bug and make him suffer from the behavior of people…
But I guess the meaning of this particular work of Kafka in not that mysterious. Kafka examines human nature with its vices and inclinations. In real life he sees that a man can be inhuman, narrow-minded, cold-blooded, complacent, unfair, illogical and so on (like all those people surrounding Gregor) and demonstrates this in his texts.
I believe that the very idea of a bug-man is quite simple in general. Let us say a writer is concerned about injustice and cruelty of man and world, so nothing extraordinary in the fact that one day the idea comes to his mind to transform a good man into a bug and make him suffer from the behavior of people…
Mark Ryall
A great question, which I've answered on Quora if you want to check it out:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-mos...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-mos...
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Mar 01, 2022 06:34PM · flag