Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka Biographical Criticism

The Man Who Believed He Was a Bug Interpretations are flexible depending on what filter the audience uses to read with. Biographical criticism is used to analyze reading material with the author’s life in mind. These aspects of the author’s life are their unique experiences that are written into their literary works. A famous example of literary filters is Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The novella can have a variety of interpretations depending on what literary criticism is applied. Kafka’s novella is about a travelling salesman named Gregor who experiences being transformed into an insect (physically or mentally is debatable). Through the lens of biographical criticism, Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis, Gregor shares similarities with the author in terms of feeling like a useless burden to the family. Franz Kafka was an outsider growing up. Mauro Nervi, author of an online Franz Kafka biography article, states that Kafka was raised in Prague, Czech Republic as middle-class Jew. However, despite Kafka’s Czech Republic origins, the author spoke German due to his mother’s German roots (Nervi). It was a tough beginning that helped to shape Kafka’s writing from

Samsa made multiple attacks on his son. It made Gregor incapacitated of any movement and there is also the shock of the attack to consider. Gregor stated that it was only a matter of time before his father’s frustration at the situation snap. What he wasn’t counting on was for his father to lose himself in his emotions to the point of killing his own son. Gregor’s father had been experiencing this frustration due to his family financial situation now that Gregor couldn’t pay off the family debt. By taking his frustration out on his son Mr. Samsa threatening Gregor to get his priorities in order and stop being a burden to his family. Similarly, in the way Hermann Kafka used his abuse to make Franz Kafka an obedient child and to discourage him from becoming an