Entre Líneas answers “Is there an official theory about the real...”

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Is there an official theory about the real meaning of this book ? Has F. Kafka ever talked about it ?

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…moreAt 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.(less)

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Lukáš Palán Really? Capitalism?
May 20, 2018 09:42AM

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