If someone likes to be alone and doesn’t like something that everyone else does, would you call that “misjudged or misunderstood.” Yes, I do, I just think that people should try new things. If they seem like they don’t like or don’t belong to a certain group. Someone should try to get them to try or figure out a way the can alter it to make it likeable to everyone.
I think that if someone doesn’t like something everyone else likes, the group should try to make it likeable. For example, if a group of people were having a drawing contest, and they have to draw a cat, if a group of people doesn’t like to draw cats, they can change it to drawing any animal. It doesn’t have to be a large change, it can be small, but it is a large impact in the long run. This relates to “The Metamorphosis” because in the book, nobody really tried to change the way they did things to make Gregor fit in or be comfortable. Very far in the book, they were trying to kill him and didn’t try to cooperate at all. It says on page 165, “...another thrown immediately after that one drove into Gregor’s back really hard.
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Most “outsiders” have a group of others that they trust and rely on and do stuff with them and the group understands them and they feel comfortable with them with whatever they do. If, in school their is a certain “outsider” in a gym class, and they don’t have any of their friends in the gym class that they are comfortable with and can trust. People should start making friends with them so they can fit in and participate with the other class. This relates to “The Metamorphosis” because in the book, they’re nobody else like him. In the book, on page 138 it says, “... Wriggling Legs…”Maybe if their were more like him, they could have tried to help together to get the parents to believe that they were humans on the
Throughout The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka shuns Gregor. At first glance, Gregor’s transformation creates the only isolation. As the story evolves, the Samsa family’s segregation begins to play a larger role. Through intuitive actions, each family member isolates themselves. The Samsa’s accommodate the renters generously, in order to win communal approval. Failing the renters positions the Samsa’s lower in society than they previously were. Not only do the Samsa’s isolate themselves, they are also secluded from society. Many instances allow the Samsa’s severance from society to shine through Gregor’s isolation.
To begin with, when I was younger I would have considered myself an outsider because when I first started school, I didn’t have the characteristics to fit in and felt like I would not blend into the people I was surrounded by. Also, I have met many people who have presented experiences from their past when they had felt like they didn’t fit in because they couldn’t keep up the standards to be popular. In social media, there are many guidelines that people feel the need to meet in order to feel like you belong and some who don’t match up can feel like outsiders, and that happens to many. Furthermore, in today’s society people feel the need to be popular or to fit in, and if they can’t meet the expectations they are considered an outsider and that happens universally. Others may suggest that just because someone doesn’t fit in a group doesn’t mean they are considered an outsider, they are just someone who doesn’t meet certain expectations. However, many others would disagree and would label someone an outsider when they don’t fit in or don’t meet expectations of society because that makes them think they don’t
Before the transformation, Gregor was a human form of nonchalant reclusiveness. It’s almost as if it was crucial for him to go through the conversion so he could become more emotionally aware despite the irony of him not even being human but a bug. For someone who has been human for about 20 years with absolutely no experience of being an insect, then suddenly become more humane as a creature is odd and outlandish. Gregor’s care for his family increases and begins to worry about their loss of financial and emotional security. He fears that what “if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?” Gregor’s attitude towards his transformation is hopelessly mundane: he does not question why he has been transformed into a cockroach. Significantly, he fails to find the horror and the absurdity in the situation. Right before his death, Gregor feels all kinds of warm and fuzzy feelings about his family members. Despite his pathetic condition, he seems more humane than the rest of the characters. In a way, Gregor’s transformation and all of the events after that day illustrates both the rewards and sacrifices of defying social convention and living the extraordinary
First and foremost Gregor was betrayed by his own parents who failed to care for him after his transformation. The initial reaction of the parents, especially his father, set the tone for the whole novel. Instead of trying to resolve the issue with a reasonable solution, his father physically abuses him, “when from behind, his father gave him a hard
Gregor’s relationship with his father shows resemblance to the relationship between Kafka and his father. Kafka, as a child, suffered abuse from his father. Kafka viewed his father as a forceful monster, which resembles Gregor’s father. Gregor wanted nothing more than the love of his family, especially his father, just as Kafka had wanted. His reason for writing “The Metamorphosis” could also relate to the situation which he lived in. He was a Jew raised in Austro-Hungarian Empire, modern day Czech Republic. He was a Jew in an area of the world which Jews were not well accepted. Gregor was described as cockroach, something that Jew were often equated to during this time period. Jews were treated like vermin, they were thought of a creature that was to be rid of. Gregor experienced similar treatment from his family. They discussed leaving or getting rid of Gregor during the story. Experiences of Gregor are similar to those that Jews would have experienced during Kafka’s life. “The Metamorphosis” could also demonstrate the issues that normal people face every day. People face trials and tribulations every day that change their lives dramatically, nobody has ever been transformed into a bug, but it does represent the extreme circumstances that may
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis takes on an wide variety of main themes. One of the most important of these is the collapse of morality and mercy, even among those people who are expected to be most fair and compassionate. Gregor’s metamorphosis is indeed terrible, but more terrible still is the psychological corruption of Gregor’s family. Their inability to adapt to the changes that have occurred signal a total breakdown in the family structure, and offer a cautionary tale about the fragility of notions of justice and mercy and how a certain change can change a persons perception of them.
This lack of clarity causes confusion for many readers. In The Metamorphosis, readers become confused when they try to decide if Gregor is or is not a bug. It is common knowledge that turning into a bug upon waking up is not a normal occurrence. However, from the first paragraph the story forces readers to question that idea. When readers look at Gregor and see a huge bug, they have good reason. The book gives vivid physical descriptions. Gregor observes in the solitude of his bedroom and, “found the itchy part, which was entirely covered with small white spots (he did not know what to make of them), ”(Kafka 4) . This quote is so vivid and specific that for it to be used in a figurative format becomes farfetched. The story refers to Gregor 's size, specific behaviors and, inability to function as a human throughout the book. Gregor also causes fear for his family. This is a fear of the unknown. Gregor solely being a bad person would not strike as much fear in his family as it did in the short novel. The immediate reaction of others also suggests that Gregor’s physical appearance has changed. However, evidence also suggests that Gregor is not a bug. Gregor 's size is evidence that the descriptions and the reactions of others are not based on appearances. Gregor spends a lot of time with internal reflections. All this thinking causes Gregor to show his human side to readers. This reflection shows his
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell depict dystopian futures with people being ruled by extremely powerful and oppressive governments. In Brave New World, the government is called the World State, and is led by the World Controller, Mustapha Mond. In 1984 it is called the Party, which consists of the very exclusive Inner Party and the very populated Outer Party. The face of the party is “Big Brother” but the book does not specify whether Big Brother is actually a real person or not. Both novels follow characters trying to escape the twisted society they live in. The main characters in the novels are among the only ones who make any effort to rebel against the totalitarian state
Throughout the course of the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley generates the theme government dictated states remove individuality, and as a result, stability is sustained due to citizens being identical. Huxley illustrates this in chapter ten when he indicates that:
The story of The Metamorphosis starts out simply, with a human waking up no longer human, but rather like a giant bug. This existential novella is filled with absurdity, as well as betrayal. When Gregor Samsa, the main character, wakes up one day as a bug, his first priority is getting to his job, in order to make money to support his family. But as the story goes on, he is betrayed by the family he loves so much, but worse, he betrays who he is as a person. Betrayal in the novella The Metamorphosis contributes to the overall message of the story that anyone will betray you, regardless of whether they are family, enemies, or even yourself, through showing the actions of Gregor’s father towards Gregor, Grete’s actions against Gregor, and Gregor’s own actions against himself and his family.
Martin Greenberg writes that Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is about death (19). Greenberg directly states that “His story is about death, but death that is without denouement, death that is merely a spiritually inconclusive petering out” (19). Gregor never lives his life for himself. He does everything for his family and plans on doing it until his death. Throughout life, humans all know that they are all going to die, but they do not know when, where, or how they will die. It is up to them to decide how they want to live their life up until their death. Freud says that humans aim for their death (Bloom 10). Humans aim to live the best life possible and when they die, they are proud of everything they lived for. Gregor, on the other hand, does not know what his life will be because he has never done anything for himself and has always done things for his family’s well being. Gregor struggles to figure the true meaning of life and death (Greenberg 20). Now that Gregor is an insect, he starts to be disconnected from his human life and beings to die. Martin Greenberg shares this view point by stating that as Gregor lives life as an insect, he slowly begins to die (20). Even though Gregor ends up dying, he was emotionally dying throughout the whole novella. Gregor turns away from life (Corngold 50). The immediate disconnection between him and is family is what causes him to turn away from life. “At any rate, nobody paid any attention to him” (59). Gregor basically accepts his own death (Corngold 50). All of the guilt that has built up inside of Gregor is the main reason why he dies. Nicole Smith writes that Gregor’s guilt ultimately leads to his death (1). At the end of the novella, Gregor finally realizes that he is only hurting and holding back his family from living their life. Because of this Gregor
Outsiders are misunderstood because people don’t know what their beliefs are since they are normally so kept to themselves. For example, in “Metamorphosis”, Gregor Samsa doesn’t like his job, but his family doesn’t know that. “If I didn’t hold back for my parents’ sake, I would’ve quit ages ago”(Kafka 5). The only reason he is working is to pay off his parent’s debt. “Once
From the beginning of The Metamorphosis Kafka offers a comical depiction of Gregor’s “squirming legs” (Kafka 13) and a body in which “he could not control” (7). Gregor’s initial reaction to this situation was the fact he was late to his dissatisfying job as a salesman, but Gregor knows that he has to continue his job in order to keep the expectation his family holds upon him to pay of the family’s everlasting debt. When Gregor’s family eventually realizes that Gregor is still lying in his bed, they are confused because they have expectations on Gregor that he will hold the family together by working. They know if Gregor was to quit his job there would be a great catastrophe since he is the glue to keeping their family out of debt. The communication between his family is quickly identified as meager and by talking to each other from the adjacent walls shows their disconnection with each other. Kafka introduces the family as lacking social skills in order to offer the reader to criticize and sympathize for Gregor’s family dynamics. Gregor’s manager makes an appearance quickly after experiencing the dysfunction within the fami...
...uses symbolism to convey his message about humanity. The underlying message of the Metamorphosis is that it unfolds the truth about human nature; the story tells us that humans have lost their humanity. He uses the vermin, food, Mr. Samsa’s uniform, apple, his autobiography, and violin as symbols in the Metamorphosis. The word transformation does not apply to Gregor but also to all the family members of Samsa family. Grete was one of the members of the family, who transformed. For the first few weeks, she took care of Gregor and leaves food for him but then she transforms and she starts to hate Gregor because the family members thought Gregor was a burden to them and was worthless. The family lost the sympathy for Gregor.
Life is a never-ending metamorphosis. It is always changing, always transforming. Sometimes a change is followed by positive results, but on the darker side, a metamorphosis can lead to damage or suffering. But of course, the concept of metamorphosis can also be related into the wonderful yet unrealistic world of magic and sorcery. Metamorphosis can mean a rapid transformation from one object to another or a distinct or even degenerative change in appearance, personality, condition, or function. The concept of metamorphosis is commonly used in pieces of literature to describe an extreme change in character or form.