Gregor Samsa In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis,a story written by Franz Kafka, tells the story about an unreasonable transformation that changes Gregor Samsa into an enormous insect. According to the story Gregor’s family faces the tragedy that change all their lives into the other side. All characters can be described by a using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid, but the character that has the most fluctuation in the chart was Gregor Samsa. Before the metamorphosis Gregor is at the top of Hierarchy pyramid. He’s dating with a girl, does well in his occupation, his boss trust him, and is never late in his workday. However, after he woke up late in the morning, he recognizes that he transform into a giant bug. This metamorphosis show that his Hierarchy chart is down to Self Esteem part. Gregor Samsa thinks to himself : "What's happened to me?"(line 7) this quotation showed that Gregor was upset after he found that he cannot be human anymore. After that everything in his life is getting worse, his

It shows by using an antenna as an eye for avoiding the obstacle around the room, crawling up the wall for fresh air and eating wasted food. However, Gregor depresses about his family. Gregor says to himself for the reason that his family is the lack of conversation and ignore him "What a quiet life it is the family lead" (line 30). Samsa parent’s actions make Gregor loses his Love and Belonging chart in Hierarchy pyramid, he feel more despair when Grete, Gregor’s sister, and Mrs.Samsa decide to remove his furniture from his room. He tries to stop them but because a lack of pronunciation make it harder to make his family understand, so he decides to jump at his mother and scare them of. His movement express as a mistake, it lead to violent from his own father. Mr.Samsa throw an apple at Gregor and it stuck in his back, the violent from his own father make him cannot feel any safety from his family