When we hear about The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, there surely will flash in our mind the image of a bugman, a bug as big as an adult. yeah, that’s first, especially for those who have never read it but have many times heard people touching on it in literary essays and all. The Metamorphosis will surely sound x-menly to them. But if you have read it, you’ll find something way more reflective than an x-men world.
Yeah, The Metamorphosis is a gloomy kind of novella. It begins with a marvel-comic-like-for-us-in-this-age scene, a man waking up to find that he has transformed into a vermin. As the pages get turned, you’ll find a gloomy, grey-dominated world of industrialization era. It’s set in a world where people begin to be alienated by their day job. Responsibility, money, family’s welfare are all in people’s thought. There’s no more time for fun, for quality time with family, and all.and the protagonist of this novel, the newly-verminized gregor samsa, is the observing agent. Through his transformation, and thus his isolation a.k.a. ostracism, he has more time to ponder about his surrounding. with gregor’s isolation he becomes someone who can enjoy himself. And his family, who has depended on him as the breadwinner, and has been passive people with unexplored energy and skills, now turns into a group of people who would bleed themselves to take the most advantage of themselves for the sake of family.
