In Kafkas The Metamorphosis, through out the book there were many citations that had a small hint of depression and emptiness. These citations showed the depression and emptiness that was prevalent through out Kafka's life. I Thought that this was one of the most prevalent and fascinating things. After reading and researching Kafka it seemed like there was a lot of depression in his life. In this story I could see many examples and relate these back to his life and certain points in his life. This is one of the reasons I really liked this story. One example of this is when Gregor first wakes up and notices he is a bug. "pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought." As Gregor wakes up an notices he is a bug and he described himself as ugly and unproportional. This seems to be a very depressing part in his life because after this he goes on to think about what he is doing with his life. He says then that he has worse things to worried about then being turned into a bug. Another part where you can see Gregors depression is when he is in the dark house at the beginning of part two. "said Gregor to himself and, as he stared fixedly out in front of him into the darkness," In this citation and many more parts of the story Gregor talks about the darkness and how dark it is in the house. This shows emptiness and depression in his life. Also, It shows how he has no one to really care about in his life so he is empty. Another example of the Depression is in part three of the story. "And for that very reason he would’ve had at this moment more reason to hide away, because as a result of the dust which lay all over his room and flew around with the slightest movement, he was totally covered in dirt." In this citation Gregor moves around the room he basically lives in and as a result moves all this dust and dirt which falls on him. This shows the lack of care for the conditions he is living in and how his family has basically giving up on him and does not care about him. When the dirt settles on him he also has no care because that is simply the least of his worries. Because of the many citations in The Metamorphosis, One can see many examples of depression in the story. Because of the analysis that we do in this class I can now see the parts of the story that are examples of his life. This part of reading this story was my favorite
In Kafka's The Metamorphosis I thought that Isolation was a incorporated in the story a lot and really well. Like I said in the first paragraph, one of the biggest reasons I like this story is because of how Kafka puts his pain and isolation in to his writing so well. This really makes me think back to his life and think about what was going on at the time to maybe have inspired this writing. One example of this Isolation is in the first paragraph when he has waken up. "Gregor was startled when he heard his voice answering. It was clearly and unmistakably his earlier voice, but in it was intermingled, as if from below, an irrepressibly painful squeaking which left the words positively distinct only in the first moment and distorted them in the reverberation, so that one didn’t know if one had heard correctly." Gregor has just tried to speak to his parents for the first time since he has woken up. Here Gregor has lost his voice and it seems to be not understood by his parents. This is where one can see his isolation from his family. He has basically lost all connections with anyone. His voice is his source of identity and authority and without it he is no one and cant connect with anyone. He is basically isolated from his family and anyone else. Another example of isolation is in the second paragraph. "‘What a quiet life the family leads’," Here Gregor has just woken up and is waking around his house. He uses the words "the family" and this shows that is isnt saying it as if he is a part of the family. Instead of using "are family" or "my family" he isolates himself and say the family implying that he is not a part of it. One can see examples of isolation in the third paragraph as well. "People had grown accustomed to put into storage in his room things which they couldn’t put anywhere else, and at this point there were many such things, now that they had rented one room of the apartment to three lodgers. These solemn gentlemen (all three had full beards, as Gregor once found out through a crack in the door)" There are two examples of isolation in this citation. First, Gregor is living in a place where people store there stuff. This is showing that Gregor is not recognized by anyone as a person anymore and is isolated from his family because he is set to live in a storage room with unused things like him. Second, here Gregor has not connection with the outside world except for a crack in the wall. He is isolated from the world except for a crack where he can get the information about his family. All these examples of Isolation really relate to his life and how he never was really married. This is really cool to me because his own life experiences are relayed in his writing. This is by far the best reason on why I liked the story.
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