The Use Of English Language In Frank Kafka's The Metamorphosis

The English language is filled with words that help convey our meaning without saying the actual meaning. These useful words are called figures of speech and not only are they important in our daily lives, but they are a necessity in books and plays to help drive a point home or make us laugh. This is done with: Hyperboles, Similes, Metaphors, Personifications, Alliterations, Onomatopoeias, and Idioms. However in this paper, only three will be dealt with.
In his story The Metamorphosis, Frank Kafka is showing how a man named George who was living an undesirable and mediocre life as a salesman who turns into a hideous mutation. This is what is considered a Metaphor; George was in essence a parasite to his family and to his society. The family drew largely from George’s income, however this change turned him from a savior to a burden. Kafka wants to show how fickle society is. Turning into an insect is a terrifying thing to happen to any person. This would naturally throw anybody into shock, but for some reason, the family and George are not alarmed but disgusted at the mere thought of him turning into an insect.
Society in itself is like a leaf in the wind, there is no steady opinion of what is accepted and what is not. What may be accepted and loved today maybe hated the next day. This is

He shows how the boy is holding a saw that “Snarled and rattled in the yard.” (Page 680). This stirs up images of a rusty saw with chipped paint and how intimidating that could be to a boy. Frost seems to liken it to a beast that is snarling at whatever gets close. It also shows how a young boy is deprived of a regular life because he is doing the job of a man when he should not be handling the saw. The time this poem was written in 1916, a time when war was pulling young men into a war where young men did not