Delusional Imitations

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Humans are indistinctly logical beings. They have the rational sense to determine, and differentiate the right from the wrong. They have intrinsic emotions that enable them to react towards objects or beings, that portrait a potential harm towards their being. Consequenlty the human creates sub emotions such as, disgust and distancing in order to preserve. In the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the film let right one, we encounter a situation in which Gregor and Eli the two main characters of each work are marginalized due to their . Vermin and Vampires respectively, are creatures which society has created revulsion towards to consequently marginalizing them, both physically and psychologically. This “Self-protective” emotion society has created prevents these creatures from apprehending the good life to instead hide and cage themselves, escaping from society and contributing to the strengthening of this emotional stereotype and

Marginalization is when individuals are neglected from society. It’s a social exclusion where society rejects and hinders the possibility of coexisting with one another and having the same equal rights. This creates distancing between certain humans or species. As for the animal and the human, the tendency is to have a certain kind of disgust. Animals are living creatures that only live for pleasure, act for pleasure and die for pleasure. They are irrational creatures who only act by their instinct for pleasure. While the human is the proclaimed, superior figure, who has a greater rational understanding of the world. This small but vast variable, inquires the idea of treating these creatures in a deformed ethical way, with indifference and cruelty. Gregor as a human being is already marginalized by his family. The continuous and unexhausted work life, which portraits him as a monotone being who only lives to sustain his family. “"Oh

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